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With the lights of Moss Landing, California, twinkling in the distance,
This week marked the 23rd anniversary of welfare reform, a law that ripped a hole in the nation’s safety net under the guise of encouraging
In recent months, Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked the Federal Reserve and its chairperson, Jerome Powell, for setting interest rates higher than Trump would like.
Here’s my summary of the climate change plans from all of the top-tier Democratic candidates. My assessment is based mostly on three things:
How practical is
President Donald Trump has reportedly been complaining up a storm about having to represent the United States at this week’s meeting of the G7 in
Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg round out the top tier of Democratic candidates, but neither one of them has released a climate plan yet. Booker’s
Beto O’Rourke’s climate plan presents a problem: it’s so full of jargon and voodoo accounting that it’s genuinely hard to figure out what he’s saying.
Joe Biden has proposed a $1.7 trillion climate plan over ten years that includes the following major components:
Net zero emissions by 2050.
$400 billion (over ten
Trump administration officials have outlined their plans for this weekend’s G7 meeting:
As the officials outlined Trump’s agenda for the meeting, they indicated the president would
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took power this year promising to open the Amazon