Policy

The New Deal at 75: An Inspiration, Not a Blueprint

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Whatever your political perspective, Americans need to admire the New Deal for, if nothing else, its ambitious agenda. In a way unparalleled in the 20th Century, the New Deal left us a legacy of achievement – one that we can still see in big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Wishek, North Dakota.  read more »

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A Pro Family Housing Agenda

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There is considerable concern about housing affordability in the United States. Housing is the most expensive element of the cost of living  read more »

Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!

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President Trump’s Executive Orders have ended U.S. participation in the Green New Deal and Paris climate treaty.  read more »

How Federal Lands Can Be Used to Ease the Housing Crisis

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Next to inflation, Americans ranked housing as their top financial concern in a Gallup survey last May.  read more »

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SLAPPed

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My, oh my, how the worm has turned.

Thirteen months ago, in the op-ed pages of the New York Times , University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann and his lawyer, Peter J. Fontaine, were crowing about their victory in federal court a few days earlier.  read more »

DOGE is Waging a Class War on America’s New Clerisy

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The ever-mounting hysteria over Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seems to largely be coming from that large sector of Americans who  read more »

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Ohio's Gritty Fight to Reverse Decadence

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Last week, at the AI Action Summit in Paris, Vice President J.D. Vance reaffirmed the Trump administration’s commitment to ensuring that advanced AI systems are developed domestically  read more »

Climate Change, Insurance, and the LA Fires

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Scientific American blames the Los Angeles fires on climate change. A Yale University publication agrees.  read more »

The Big Reversal

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It took the re-election of a battered Republican candidate — and a milestone rejection of the Democratic Party’s climate and energy policies by the American electorate — to stop the years-long assault on rural America, our landscapes, and our wildlife by Big Wind and its many allies.  read more »

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Here's the Real Hockey Stick

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In 2005, Scientific American published an article saying that the hockey stick graph published a few years earlier by Michael Mann, an academic who now works at the University of Pennsylvania  read more »