The Biden administration has set out to diminish our nation’s climate impact through various regulations and policies, many of which have been misguided and counterproductive. That agenda has borne itself out with federal agencies rapidly accelerating climate action by proposing their own ...
As we mark the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington (August 28) and the sacrifices made by the heroes before us, we must face that their work did not end there. With every passing generation, the spark that guided their legacy of fighting for racial equality and justice is carried on by ...
The opening sentence is a stunner, wrapping emotional arms around the reader: “Jimmy is 8 years old and a third-generation heroin addict, a precocious little boy with sandy hair, velvety brown eyes and needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin brown arms.” The remaining ...
Restrictions on vaping are often predicated on the idea that they protect children and teenagers from a vaping “epidemic.” Despite the claim of an “epidemic,” fewer teens are vaping now than before the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with falling teen vaping rates, regulators are slow to ...
Former president Donald Trump has proven himself to be enduringly charismatic to many Americans of a conservative political bent and a thorn in the side of many independents and liberal-leaning citizens. The drama he creates can evoke the best and worst in us, but it’s time to move on. I ...
Those who work with language have reason to worry about the effect of artificial intelligence and its awesome skill with words. You can, for example, ask ChatGPT to write an article on almost any subject, and it will mostly come back with something ready for the page, untouched by a human ...