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Oct 04 2012
Opinion
Policy Basics: Climate-Change Legislation and Low-Income Consumers
“Putting a price on carbon through market-based policies like cap and trade or a carbon tax is the most cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. By raising the price of fossil-fuel energy products  from home energy and gasoline to food and other goods and services with significant energy inputs  these policies would encourage energy conservation, investments in
Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesDec 01 2014
News
Obama To Meet Civil Rights Leaders To Talk About Mistrust Of Police
After another day of mostly peaceful protests in Ferguson, Mo., President Obama is scheduled to meet with civil rights leaders to discuss mistrust of police in communities of color.
A White House official said Obama will also meet elected officials, and community and faith leaders, "to discuss how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust to strengthen
NPR (Online News)Jan 23 2020
News
Should we fiddle with Earth’s thermostat? This man might know how.
Scientists are exploring a radical idea: dimming the sun. If it works, solar geoengineering could be a last-ditch option to buy time and avert ecological disaster. But it raises ethical, legal, and geopolitical questions.
On the wall of David Keith’s airy, book-lined office in Harvard University’s engineering school is a faded 3-by-3-inch card. The framed typewritten label is the badge
Christian Science MonitorJul 19 2021
Opinion
The Government Should Stop Telling Facebook To Suppress COVID-19 'Misinformation'
The federal government is stepping up its effort to purge the internet of COVID-19 "misinformation." On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki singled out a dozen specific anti-vaccine Facebook accounts and called on the platform to ban them.
"There's about 12 people who are producing 65 percent of vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," said Psaki. "All of them
ReasonMar 22 2022
Perspectives Blog
AllStances™: Teaching LGBTQ+ Topics In Schools
Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, is sparking a wide array of arguments on all sides of the spectrum.
Should public schools teach primary school students about sexual orientation and gender identity? At what grade level should teachers start teaching LGBTQ+ topics in the classroom? Is banning the discussion of these issues a
Antonio FermeMay 02 2016
News
Seattle May Day Violence: 5 Police Injured in Clashes, 9 Arrested
At least nine protesters were arrested and five police officers injured during May Day clashes in Seattle where flares, bricks and Molotov cocktails were thrown, authorities said.
The anti-capitalist disorder followed a peaceful march earlier in the day by advocates for workers and immigrants — one of several nationwide events Sunday calling for better wages for workers and work permits
NBC News DigitalJul 12 2020
Opinion
The Ideological Corruption of Science
In American laboratories and universities, the spirit of Trofim Lysenko has suddenly been woke..
In the 1980s, when I was a young professor of physics and astronomy at Yale, deconstructionism was in vogue in the English Department. We in the science departments would scoff at the lack of objective intellectual standards in the humanities, epitomized by a movement that argued against the
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Oct 13 2015
News
Democrats Are Starting To Line Up Against Obama's Clean Power Plan
Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) is facing some opposition from his own party in Kentucky and Missouri. The ambitious green energy plan aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. It’s a regulatory nightmare that will hurt millions of Americans, especially those in rural areas and living on fixed-incomes. It will impact Americans’ electrical costs, and
TownhallAug 26 2020
News
Trump Leverages Powers of Office as He Seeks to Broaden Appeal
In an abrupt swerve from the dire tone of the convention’s first night, President Trump staged a grab-bag of gauzy events and personal testimonials aimed at female and minority voters. His program blurred the lines between campaigning and governing.
President Trump made a bid to sand down his divisive political image by appropriating the resources of his office and the powers of the
New York Times (News)Aug 26 2020
Analysis
First, she renovated the Rose Garden. Then, Melania spruced up her husband.
Night two of the Republican National Convention felt like whiplash. The American Carnage ethos of Monday was replaced by a slicker evening of programming that attempted to sand down the coarse edges of Trumpism.
Monday night felt a bit like the scene in A Clockwork Orange when Alex, the subject of an experimental behavioral therapy, had his eyelids clamped open while he was forced to
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