Real News Reports

For The Real News Network, I recently spoke in Puerto Rico with economist Dr. José Caraballo-Cueto about the economic prospects for an independent Puerto Rico. Would Puerto Rico be better off if [...]

For The Real News Network, I speak to ecologist Francisco Sanchez-Bayo of Sydney University in Australia about a new study showing alarming rates of decline in insect populations. If current [...]

Along with Yves Engler, I speak to Sharmini Peries of The Real News Network about the latest revelations in the SNC-Lavalin scandal. As I explain, Justin Trudeau’s argument that his [...]

56 million years ago, the Earth experienced a brief, cataclysmic hot spell now known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM. After heat-trapping carbon leaked into the sky from an [...]

During my recent trip to Venezuela, I sought out and spoke to both supporters and critics of President Nicolas Maduro. On February 14, 2019, the Real News published a report of my interviews of [...]

During my recent trip to Caracas, Venezuela, I spoke with Atenea Jimenez, the speaker of a Network of Communes. Atenea argued that collective, grassroots decision-making is the key to solving [...]

As Lima Group members Columbia and Brazil foment unrest on Venezuela’s borders, their right-wing regimes routinely violate human rights in their own countries. For The Real News Network, I met in [...]

For The Real News Network, I recently spoke in Caracas, Venezuela with Venezuela’s former Minister of Communes and Culture, Reinaldo Iturriza. Mr. Iturriza argues that U.S. sanctions [...]

During my recent trip to Caracas, Venezuela, I visited the working class district of Valle. There, I discussed Venezuela’s crisis with Gustavo Robledo, an ambulance driver who has spent his [...]

According to a new poll by researchers at George Mason and Yale Universities, climate change concerns are more bipartisan than political elites would have us believe. Among other things, their [...]