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Jun 02 2021
News
Capturing carbon emissions: pragmatic solution or costly distraction?
It’s an ugly duckling of climate policy. Yet the idea of capturing and storing carbon emissions seems to be gaining bipartisan support. Beneath the fray is a debate over the meaning of pragmatism in policy.
After a decade of sitting on the outskirts of climate change policy, efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere – or to trap it before it leaves a smokestack – are gaining
Christian Science MonitorFeb 28 2017
News
Trump lays out his vision for America in speech to Congress
President Trump delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, laying out the agenda for his presidency and, in broad terms, his vision for the country.
Pulling from his campaign speeches and others since taking office, the president ran off a list of accomplishments since taking office and issued promises for the year ahead. Trump highlighted new lobbying
Washington PostJul 17 2017
Headline Roundup
Outgoing Ethics Chief Makes Statement
Walter Shaub, the outgoing head of the Office of Government Ethics, told the New York Times that the U.S. is "close to a laughingstock" when it comes to ethical standards. Shaub announced earlier this month that he would be leaving the Office of Government Ethics. The White House issued a statement saying that Shaub was more interested in "grandstanding and lobbying" than advising the
Washington Examiner Business Insider New York Times (News)Sep 08 2022
Perspectives Blog
Schools Return Amid Concerns About Curriculum, Safety
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Even as debates about COVID-19 protocols in schools mostly die off, questions about safety, curriculum and faculty shortages remain as kids return to class.
Many parents of current K-12 students are satisfied with their own
AllSides StaffMay 24 2021
Analysis
What happened to the $45 billion in rent relief?
Rent relief was the solution to a possible wave of evictions. It ran headfirst into reality.
Everyone agreed that rent relief was the only way to stop a wave of millions of Americans from being evicted.
The logic was simple: Give people who were struggling during the pandemic the money to pay their rent, and landlords would have no reason to evict for nonpayment. That simplicity
VoxFeb 06 2013
News
Exclusive: How Ohio’s Republican governor sold the state on expanding Medicaid
Hoping to bring billions in federal funding to his state while shielding himself from the political pain of complying with Obamacare, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has spent the past few months reaching out to some odd allies that would support the Medicaid expansion. The Republican administration worked shoulder to shoulder with Obamacare supporters and opponents, crafting a lobbying campaign aimed
Washington PostDec 16 2019
News
Erdogan threatens to recognize Native American deaths as genocide after US acknowledges Armenian genocide
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that lawmakers in his country may recognize the deaths of Native Americans as a genocide after Congress rebuffed Turkey and voted to acknowledge and condemn the Armenian genocide.
The proposed move, which would be largely symbolic, came after the Senate unanimously passed a bill recognizing the Turkish genocide of more than a million
Washington ExaminerJul 11 2015
News
Obama admin’s attempt to follow Supreme Court’s birth-control ruling pleases few
The Obama administration on Friday tried to extinguish lingering concerns about Obamacare’s birth-control mandate, issuing final rules on how closely held corporations and religious nonprofits can opt out.
Health and Human Services Department officials said it rewrote its rules after the Hobby Lobby crafts chain and other devout business owners successfully challenged the mandate before
Washington TimesJan 05 2021
Opinion
Trump’s Shameful Georgia Call
If he were to succeed in his bid to remain in office, he’d provoke a disastrous constitutional crisis.
President Donald Trump has turned a narrow electoral defeat into a bid for infamy.
His goal in the post-election interlude has been more and more explicitly to overturn the results of the election. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago he tweeted simply, “#OVERTURN.”
We now know
Rich LowryOct 17 2019
Opinion
Progressives Are All Too Willing to Cut Constitutional Corners
They despise and bully adversaries and practice theatrical but selective indignation about attacks on fundamental American principles.
Presidential aspirant Beto O’Rourke, thrashing about in an attempt to be noticed, says tax exemptions should be denied to churches and other institutions that oppose same-sex marriage. O’Rourke’s suggestion, and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren’s
George Will