Archive of Matt Huber

A new documentary, To the End, credits the political activists behind the Green New Deal movement for Biden’s environmental policies. Yet, as Matt Huber writes, the film fails to acknowledge that the inability of green activists to build a mass base was also the cause of the Inflation Reduction Act's limitations.

Demands centering on the need for a "Green New Deal", focused on the creation of a public works “green jobs” infrastructure policy, have helped energise the American left in recent weeks. In this article Matt Huber offers four vital lessons from the original New Deal that contemporary activists and policymakers must learn.