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Reed Galen is a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, President of JoinTheUnion.us, a pro-democracy coalition dedicated to defending American democracy and defeating authoritarian candidates, and host of The Home Front Podcast. He writes on Substack at The Home Front.

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  1. Trump’s Not-So-Secret Weapon
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    Trump’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

    Oct 28, 2024 Reed Galen traces the rise and role of the right-wing media machine supporting the former president.

  2. Harris Has the Momentum to Beat Trump
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    Harris Has the Momentum to Beat Trump

    Jul 29, 2024 Reed Galen welcomes the vigor that the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee has brought to the presidential race.

  3. Why Republicans Go Crawling Back to Donald Trump
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    Why Republicans Go Crawling Back to Donald Trump

    May 30, 2024 Reed Galen sees the fecklessness of figures like William Barr as proof of the sorry state of the American political class.

  4. Why Trump Can’t Win
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    Why Trump Can’t Win

    Mar 6, 2024 Reed Galen shows why the numbers do not favor the presumptive Republican nominee in November's US presidential election.

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    Carbon Farming Won't Save the Planet

    Sophie Scherger warns that soil-storage offsets may serve as a smokescreen for polluting industries.
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    Putin’s March of Folly

    Carl Bildt argues that Russia’s president has only his own poor decisions to blame for his country’s loss of status.
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    A Better Approach to Climate Finance

    Ricardo Hausmann

    By harnessing the capabilities of developing countries, we can accelerate global decarbonization while creating new growth opportunities. This approach would not only advance crucial climate goals but also ensure that a larger share of the world’s population can enjoy the fruits of the clean-energy transition.

     shows how developing countries can accelerate global decarbonization while creating new growth opportunities.
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    Trump’s Bad COP

    Jayati Ghosh says the Paris climate agreement’s future depends on how other countries respond to the new US administration.
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    Are Tariffs Worth It?

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg thinks the risks and costs for the US will far outweigh any potential political or geopolitical benefits.
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    Is the Loss and Damage Fund Becoming an Empty Promise?

    Liane Schalatek warns that rich countries are once again shirking their responsibility to provide adequate climate finance.
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    How Global Public Investment Should Work

    Mariana Mazzucato & Jonathan Glennie

    Addressing problems like climate change and biodiversity loss calls for new thinking about how to mobilize the huge volume of financing that will be needed. International cooperation must be re-framed as a collective endeavor in which all countries benefit, contribute, and make investment decisions together.

     propose a new model to unlock financing for action on climate change, biodiversity loss, and other issues.
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    COP29 Must Deliver the Goods

    Ana Palacio hopes that geopolitical uncertainty will not thwart ambitious, credible climate-finance commitments.
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    Interspecies Money Is Here

    Nils Gilman & Mutesi Rusagara look beyond the first ever payments to animals and see a new model for human-wildlife economic collaboration.

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