Kate Aronoff
@katearonoff.bsky.social
staff writer @ The New Republic
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The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next?
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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This is a really interesting look at the knotty politics, economics, and communication challenges of climate policy, and also a good reminder that Joe Manchin has singlehandedly done more damage to America's future than any non-Republican human on the face of the Earth.
I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next?
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is a really interesting look at the knotty politics, economics, and communication challenges of climate policy, and also a good reminder that Joe Manchin has singlehandedly done more damage to America's future than any non-Republican human on the face of the Earth.
Reposted by Kate Aronoff
"[Climate change] hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices."
An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"[Climate change] hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices."
An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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Democrats disproportionately rely on corporations to do their messaging. In this case, energy companies. In many other cases, corporate media. It’s delusional.
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Democrats disproportionately rely on corporations to do their messaging. In this case, energy companies. In many other cases, corporate media. It’s delusional.
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Climate change "hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices."
@katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
@katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Climate change "hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices."
@katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
@katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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Reposted by Kate Aronoff
"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work"
Top @katearonoff.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com -->>>
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The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work"
Top @katearonoff.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com -->>>
Top @katearonoff.bsky.social piece in @newrepublic.com -->>>
Reposted by Kate Aronoff
"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work." newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work." newrepublic.com/article/2027...
I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next?
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next?
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
This kind of thing is less fashionable than it used to be, but really worth looking into whether people saying an enormous amount of data center expansion will actually be good for climate and affordability have financial ties to people with a direct financial interest in data center expansion
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This kind of thing is less fashionable than it used to be, but really worth looking into whether people saying an enormous amount of data center expansion will actually be good for climate and affordability have financial ties to people with a direct financial interest in data center expansion
Really looking forward to joining Corey Robin & Leah Aronowsky at @remarquenyu.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon to discuss/celebrate/gush over @alybatt.bsky.social's gorgeous and important new book FREE GIFTS
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Really looking forward to joining Corey Robin & Leah Aronowsky at @remarquenyu.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon to discuss/celebrate/gush over @alybatt.bsky.social's gorgeous and important new book FREE GIFTS
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"Over the five-year span from 2019 Q4 to 2024 Q4, the average amount financed for new cars has increased 26.6%" www.milliman.com/en/insight/u...
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Over the five-year span from 2019 Q4 to 2024 Q4, the average amount financed for new cars has increased 26.6%" www.milliman.com/en/insight/u...
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A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
Longshot here but anyone have good leads on accomodations for COP30?
October 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Longshot here but anyone have good leads on accomodations for COP30?
Obsessed with the Environmentalists for Full Employment logo
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Obsessed with the Environmentalists for Full Employment logo
Overheard in JFK, in one of the thickest Long Island accents I’ve ever heard: “Bro, you’ve gotta get an EV bro”
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Overheard in JFK, in one of the thickest Long Island accents I’ve ever heard: “Bro, you’ve gotta get an EV bro”
The “energy transition” has started to sound a little like “late capitalism” newrepublic.com/article/2008...
September 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The “energy transition” has started to sound a little like “late capitalism” newrepublic.com/article/2008...
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It’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence
In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term in troublingly narrow ways.
In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term in troublingly narrow ways.
It’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence
In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term in troublingly narrow ways.
newrepublic.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence
In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term in troublingly narrow ways.
In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term in troublingly narrow ways.
Seems like a decent amount of new centrist-coded, anti-left formations taking off can be explained by people figuring out there's lots of donor interest in things that rankle the left, because donors are generally wealthy people whose class interests are opposed to the left & they find them annoying
September 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Seems like a decent amount of new centrist-coded, anti-left formations taking off can be explained by people figuring out there's lots of donor interest in things that rankle the left, because donors are generally wealthy people whose class interests are opposed to the left & they find them annoying
I wrote about political violence, free speech and Gaza newrepublic.com/article/2005...
It’s Time to Broaden Our Definition of Political Violence
In conversations about Charlie Kirk’s murder, pundits and politicians are using the term in troublingly narrow ways.
newrepublic.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I wrote about political violence, free speech and Gaza newrepublic.com/article/2005...
"At least 1 of the Korean workers swept up in a huge immigration raid on a Hyundai factory site in GA last week was living and working legally in the US... Officials then 'mandated' that he agree to be removed from the US despite not having violated his visa." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
September 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"At least 1 of the Korean workers swept up in a huge immigration raid on a Hyundai factory site in GA last week was living and working legally in the US... Officials then 'mandated' that he agree to be removed from the US despite not having violated his visa." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Thank you @katearonoff.bsky.social
"It’s perhaps even more possible, though, that the White House saw an opportunity to, in one fell swoop, terrorize migrants, undermine EVs, and blame them both for its own failures in the manufacturing sector..."
"It’s perhaps even more possible, though, that the White House saw an opportunity to, in one fell swoop, terrorize migrants, undermine EVs, and blame them both for its own failures in the manufacturing sector..."
Haven't read much about why the Department of Homeland Security would choose an electric vehicle battery factory for what it claims is its largest-ever immigration raid on a single facility, so I wrote about why that matters
tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence
newrepublic.com/article/2001...
tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence
newrepublic.com/article/2001...
ICE’s Raid on Hyundai Was as Stupid as It Was Cruel
Trump is cheering an immigration crackdown on a new plant in Georgia. Now how exactly was he planning to make American manufacturing great again?
newrepublic.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thank you @katearonoff.bsky.social
"It’s perhaps even more possible, though, that the White House saw an opportunity to, in one fell swoop, terrorize migrants, undermine EVs, and blame them both for its own failures in the manufacturing sector..."
"It’s perhaps even more possible, though, that the White House saw an opportunity to, in one fell swoop, terrorize migrants, undermine EVs, and blame them both for its own failures in the manufacturing sector..."
Haven't read much about why the Department of Homeland Security would choose an electric vehicle battery factory for what it claims is its largest-ever immigration raid on a single facility, so I wrote about why that matters
tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence
newrepublic.com/article/2001...
tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence
newrepublic.com/article/2001...
ICE’s Raid on Hyundai Was as Stupid as It Was Cruel
Trump is cheering an immigration crackdown on a new plant in Georgia. Now how exactly was he planning to make American manufacturing great again?
newrepublic.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Haven't read much about why the Department of Homeland Security would choose an electric vehicle battery factory for what it claims is its largest-ever immigration raid on a single facility, so I wrote about why that matters
tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence
newrepublic.com/article/2001...
tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence
newrepublic.com/article/2001...
I wrote about MAHA's microplastics dilemma newrepublic.com/article/1999...
It’s Time for the MAHA Moms to Turn on RFK Jr. Too
The health and human services secretary campaigned on curbing environmental toxins. He’s done next to nothing to limit microplastics in our brains or our bodies.
newrepublic.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I wrote about MAHA's microplastics dilemma newrepublic.com/article/1999...
I wrote about the end of the EPA's endangerment finding + limits on cars' GHG emissions, and how Trump is waging war on the US auto industry by giving it too much of what it wants newrepublic.com/article/1985...
Trump’s EPA Is Hurting the Automakers It’s Claiming to Help
EPA head Lee Zeldin is touting his agency’s plans to deregulate tailpipe emissions as good for car manufacturers. But fewer rules will actually weaken the U.S. auto industry.
newrepublic.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I wrote about the end of the EPA's endangerment finding + limits on cars' GHG emissions, and how Trump is waging war on the US auto industry by giving it too much of what it wants newrepublic.com/article/1985...