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More investment is needed in energy innovation

With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to see that many of the major, doom-laden environmental predictions that gained widespread attention from the 1970s onward turned out to be completely wrong. Alarmists gained media acclaim and public attention for warning that we would quickly run out ...

Are Americans fed up with democracy?

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands of representatives, who govern from far away. Nothing seems to get done. All you hear about is ...

U.S.-Israeli free trade is a win for both countries

The United States and Israel have one of the most durable trade relationships in the world. The United States-Israel Free Trade Agreement, established in 1985, was the first free trade agreement entered into by the United States and generates billions of dollars in Israeli investment in the ...

Biden’s cancer news highlights need to confront age issue

Remember when the rent was too damn high? Today, America’s politicians are too damn old. President Joe Biden’s greatest (unintended) legacy may be getting America’s political system to confront the problem. When news broke on Sunday about Biden’s diagnosis of prostate cancer with ...

How zoos can save wildlife and support conservationists

Our planet is facing an unprecedented biodiversity crisis. In the last 50 years, the Earth has lost 73 percent of its wildlife populations. Species that once roamed in abundance now edge toward extinction due to threats like habitat loss, climate change and poaching — a crisis threatening ...