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Drilling Bill Passes, Drilling Occurs Years From Today
Some Congressional Republicans have skipped heading home during the August break to instead park out at Congress and try to pressure the Democrats to vote and debate on energy bills. Okay, first off a...
View ArticleFiveThirtyEight – Politics Done Right: Cap-and-Trade is Dead; Long Live...
But my premise is that tax increases are inevitable: it’s a question of who bears those taxes and how they bear them. And at some point Congress — which is surely headed for some massive showdowns over...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – I Believe I Can Fly
Where do I start? We know that these were not the Republican goals because they had eight years under George W. Bush to pursue them and did just the opposite. And even if we assume that this time they...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – From Sputnik to SunShot
Just as President Kennedy pledged in 1961 that the United States would land an astronaut on the moon by the end of that decade — a moonshot — Dr. Chu said the United States should attempt a “sunshot”...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – China, Twitter and 20-Year-Olds vs. the Pyramids
I look at the young protesters who gathered in downtown Amman today, and the thousands who gathered in Egypt and Tunis, and my heart aches for them. So much human potential, but they have no idea how...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – Whatever Nuclear Power’s Threat, No Easy Alternatives
But the alarm in Japan and globally belies the fact that nuclear power plants, in the approximately half a century that they have existed, have caused fewer deaths than another common source of power...
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