The Weird New Political Age
Donald Trump has not yet re-taken the office of the presidency, and there are already fractures between him and co-president Elon Musk.
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Government
Predictions for Trump 2.0
Revanchism and violent revenge, both hallmarks of American conservatism in 2024. It’s a sort of appalling glimpse at what may be to come in a second Trump presidency.
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Antonio Brown’s Appearance At a Rally Is An Apt, If Not Depressing, Metaphor for the Trump Campaign.
Whether we’re talking about the moral bankruptcy behind the NFL’s complete refusal to deal with the epidemic of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or the former president’s display of cognitive decline, it’s just all kinds of unfortunate.
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Repeat After Me, Class: Better Data Will Not Solve It.
I attended a meeting of this volunteer committee on MSU’s campus that convenes monthly to talk about alternative transportation. Safety
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The 2024 Election Has Two Choices. One Is Certainly Disastrous.
American democracy cannot afford another Trump presidency.
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Streamlining City Approvals Will Speed Up Housing, Says New Paper
Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles and California State Northridge used a set of mathematical and statistical models to explain how improving bureaucratic processes in building departments could have outsized effects on increasing the rate of housing development.
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Trump & Netanyahu: A Criminal Bromance for the Ages
Yesterday, a war criminal addressed the United States Congress, receiving repeated rounds of applause and a standing ovation from a
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Going Off The Far Christian Right Deep End
The demands of so-called Christians among the extremists at the Republican National Convention to deport from the country everyone they don’t like seems to indicate that they aren’t actually reading the foundational texts of their own religion.
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Atlanta, Meet Your Twin Brother… Calgary?
Water infrastructure in Alberta and Georgia– nay, North America– nay, the entire *world*- is under serious strain from unchecked urban growth, neglect in investment over at least half a century, and, of course, climate change.
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NREL Prizes for Energy Innovation
The Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are teaming up to produce a series of competitive prize programs to facilitate innovation in energy and decarbonization.
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