Russian Oligarchs Are Bludgeoning Western Media With Their Wealth
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been one of the most consequential world figures of the past two decades, and yet it wasn’t until last year that an English-language writer delivered a definitive...
View ArticleThe Liberals Who Weakened Trust in Government
In 1950, the historian Henry Steele Commager wrote about the Tennessee Valley Authority, the New Deal agency that brought electricity and economic development to seven states in the rural South. It...
View Article“Dear Sarah, This Is God. Please Just Stay Home.”
Sarah Palin was asked over the weekend if she might run for Senate in 2022 against Lisa Murkowski, who has recently committed the thought crime of taking her job seriously. Predictably, Palin played it...
View ArticleHow to Help Poorer Oil Countries Survive Climate Change
Even with governments dangerously behind schedule on emissions reductions, oil producers are beginning to feel the heat. In recent weeks, the United States, China, the European Union, and a handful of...
View ArticleThe Return of the American Wolf Hunt
The American gray wolf represents a rare environmental miracle. After decades of harassment, hunting, trapping, and poisoning to near-extirpation in the Lower 48, the population was saved in the last...
View ArticleThe Congressman Behind the House Infrastructure Bill Is Miffed About the...
It’s hardly a secret that many House Democrats are frustrated with the infrastructure bill cooked up by a bipartisan group of senators that’s currently wending its way through the upper chamber. While...
View ArticleThe Media Is Too Clueless and Sensationalistic to Properly Explain...
“The war has changed.” That was the message from a recent internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study about the delta variant, the Covid-19 strain that’s currently dominating the news...
View ArticleLos Angeles Liberals’ Brutal Campaign Against the Homeless
Some of the richest people on earth landed a blow against some of the poorest, in ostensibly deep blue Los Angeles last week, as Mayor Eric Garcetti signed legislation almost unanimously approved by...
View ArticleAsset Managers Could Gobble Up Biden’s Climate Spending
Asset management firms have their fingers in a lot of pies. BlackRock, the world’s largest, has several alumni in the White House. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street jointly control 20 percent of...
View ArticleCan Olivia Rodrigo and TikTok Save Us From the Delta Variant?
“I think I flirted with Dr. Fauci, but in a respectful way,” said Tinx, a TikTok star with more than a million followers, a signature Chipotle bowl, and a reputation for good dating advice, after her...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo Sinks to a New Low
For much of 2020, Andrew Cuomo pitched himself as the greatest crisis manager in American politics. His Covid-19 press conferences set the tone, oscillating between light touches—discussions of...
View ArticleThe Movements for Eviction Relief and Voting Rights Converge on the Capitol...
On a balmy, overcast Tuesday in Washington, protesters and lawmakers gathered on either end of the Capitol to urge Congress and the White House to act on two issues of varying urgency: the push for a...
View ArticleNo, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Your Vaccination Status Is Not Protected by HIPAA
When NFL quarterback Dak Prescott doesn’t feel well, the whole world knows about it. The Dallas Cowboys, like all pro football teams, regularly brief the press about injury updates and medical...
View ArticleYou Should Not Run Your Family Like a Business
There is a scene in Moneyball that recounts the old way of evaluating baseball players. A rabble of aging scouts sit in a boardroom tossing out the characteristics of prospects they like: “Good face …...
View ArticleThe New Economics Is Here
Senate debate continues this week on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The proposed legislation marks the first in a series of policy actions that, taken together, could transform our economy and our...
View ArticleWhy Mainstream Media Struggles to Explain the Infrastructure Plan’s Climate...
The 2,072-page text of the bipartisan infrastructure bill was released late Sunday night. From a climate perspective, it’s peanuts. The $1.2 trillion package contains $550 billion of new spending to be...
View ArticleThis Is How Infrastructure Week Might Finally End (in the Senate, at Least)
Schoolhouse Rock didn’t prepare us for this. There is no cute song to simplify the long and complicated slog to passage for the bill formerly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, or BIF,...
View ArticleThe Eviction Moratorium Is a Sitting Duck
It’s not a good sign for the president when he admits that he’s about to lose in the courts. It’s even worse when what he’s doing is all that stands between Americans and a national eviction crisis....
View ArticleHow the War on Terror Undermined American Democracy
On September 5, 2016, two months before the Electoral College victory of Donald Trump, an essay published under the pseudonym “Publius Decius Mus” appeared in the conservative intellectual journal the...
View ArticleThe Cuomo Report and the #MeToo “Reckoning” That Never Really Came
In describing their interactions with Andrew Cuomo, many of the women quoted in the report released this week by New York Attorney General Letitia James noted that they put up with his harassment due...
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