“Getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 means we must aggressively cut down the largest source of emissions: the transportation sector,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in April 2021. It was part of the Biden administration’s aggressive push to reduce the use of fossil ...
The Supreme Court’s reputation with the public is in tatters. Fewer than one in three Americans think the institution is doing a good job, putting the court just above the sewers where approval for Congress and the media lives. Two decades ago, the court’s approval was at 50 percent, and ...
If you have gasped in Dallas, sweltered in London or baked in Tokyo this summer, you will likely believe that global warming is real. You are also likely to believe that governments — at least the caring ones — are desperate to cut the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere from ...
The Yankee soldier stares at us with a hard glint in his eyes. Wiry and weathered, he’s ready for action. No name, no date, no unit. Just a young man whose face shows the strain of war. What makes this photo remarkable is the “971” in faded red ink in the lower-left corner, two empty ...
These days, many proud progressives find themselves doing the once-unthinkable: heralding the work of staunch conservative Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. Cheney’s bipartisan co-leadership of the House’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol illustrates the ...
On July 4, 1776, the 13 “united States of America” declared their independence, throwing off oppression from Great Britain. The government in the new country would derive its “just powers from the consent of the governed.” The recent celebration of our country’s independence was ...
