{"id":654,"date":"2026-08-17T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:09:28","slug":"left-anchor-a-biden-climate-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Left Anchor: A Biden Climate Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p>Joe Biden was the best American president on climate change by maybe three orders of magnitude. Yet it didn\u2019t cement a Kamala Harris victory in 2024, and Trump has since rolled back most of Biden\u2019s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=652\">South Carolina: From Slaves to Bots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, the Left Anchor hosts interview UC Santa Barbara professor Leah Stokes about her upcoming book <em>The Carbon Wave: A Story of Democracy, Parenthood, and the Race to Protect Our Planet<\/em>. They talk about her role in the passage of the IRA, what\u2019s left of it, what Trump\u2019s victory says about climate policy, and what we should do next time.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Leah\u2019s newsletter here, her podcast A Matter of Degrees here, and her <em>Atlantic<\/em> piece about the political success of Bidenomics here.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=650\">Five Years Later, Biden Was Proven Right in Withdrawing From Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/a-biden-climate-retrospective-397\/id1436535631?i=1000783355485\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Left Anchor comes out weekly, but only half the episodes are free. Subscribe to Left Anchor\u2019s Patreon to listen to the whole episode.<\/p>\n<p><em>Left Anchor is co-hosted by Ryan Cooper, a <\/em>Prospect<em> senior editor, and Alexi the Greek. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and listen to bonus episodes by supporting the podcast on Patreon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=648\">VA Inspector General Confirms Prospect Reporting on Radiologist Shortage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><br \/>\n<!-- .entry-footer --><br \/>\n<!-- .author-bio --><br \/>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden was the best American president on climate change by maybe three orders of magnitude. Yet it didn\u2019t cement a Kamala Harris victory in 2024, and Trump has since rolled back most of Biden\u2019s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. 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