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Donald Trump
Trump 2024? Presidential comebacks have mixed success

Trump 2024? Presidential comebacks have mixed success

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By Robert Speel | – American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Yet it’s already assumed Donald Trump will go on to a next act in one form or another. Will he start his own media company? Serve as a GOP kingmaker? There are even rumblings […]

Climate Crisis
Why do People reject the Science of Climate Crisis, and can their Minds be Changed?

Why do People reject the Science of Climate Crisis, and can their Minds be Changed?

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By Peter Ellerton | – Why do humans instinctively reject evidence contrary to their beliefs? Do we understand why and how people change their mind about climate change? Is there anything we can do to engage people? These are three very significant questions. They could be answered separately but, in the context of climate science, […]

Donald Trump
What's behind Trump's refusal to concede? For Republicans, the end game is Georgia and control of the Senate

What’s behind Trump’s refusal to concede? For Republicans, the end game is Georgia and control of the Senate

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By Markus Wagner | – The world may have expected the chaos and uncertainty of the US presidential election to end when Joe Biden was declared the winner last weekend. But these are not normal times and Donald Trump is not a conventional president. Concessions that used to be a part of the political process […]

Environment
Biden will be the Antidote to Trump's Poisoning of our Environment

Biden will be the Antidote to Trump’s Poisoning of our Environment

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By Janet McCabe | – The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental laws for the past four years. Decisions at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department and other agencies have weakened the guardrails that protect our nation’s air, water and […]

Climate Crisis
Climate change: Joe Biden could ride a wave of international momentum to break deadlock in US

Climate change: Joe Biden could ride a wave of international momentum to break deadlock in US

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By Richard Beardsworth and Olaf Corry | – Joe Biden’s presidency is likely to be dominated by “the three Cs”: COVID-19, China and climate change. Each one of these behemoths could make or break him. Despite wildfires and hurricanes, this was not the long-awaited climate election. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris campaigned on the […]

Environment
Uh, oh: Oil field operations likely triggered earthquakes in California a few miles from the San Andreas Fault

Uh, oh: Oil field operations likely triggered earthquakes in California a few miles from the San Andreas Fault

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By Thomas H. Goebel | – The way companies drill for oil and gas and dispose of wastewater can trigger earthquakes, at times in unexpected places. In West Texas, earthquake rates are now 30 times higher than they were in 2013. Studies have also linked earthquakes to oil field operations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and […]

Donald Trump
Has Donald Trump had his Joe McCarthy moment?

Has Donald Trump had his Joe McCarthy moment?

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By Chris Lamb | – When CBS, NBC and ABC cut away from President Donald Trump’s news conference at the White House on the evening of Nov. 5, they took pains to explain why they were shutting off the nation’s commander-in-chief. It was a moment that for me, as a journalism historian, carried echoes of […]

Democracy
The Year 2000 called and Wants its Meme back:  No, the Supreme Court won't Settle this Election

The Year 2000 called and Wants its Meme back: No, the Supreme Court won’t Settle this Election

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By Steven Mulroy | – The Trump campaign has filed two lawsuits in federal court over ballot counting and voting deadlines in Pennsylvania, threatening to take the election to the Supreme Court. Both consciously echo the two main legal theories of Bush v. Gore, the infamous Supreme Court case that decided the contested 2000 presidential […]

Democracy
'Rainbow wave' of LGBTQ candidates run and win in 2020 election

‘Rainbow wave’ of LGBTQ candidates run and win in 2020 election

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By Timothy R. Bussey | – More LGBTQ candidates ran for office in the United States in 2020 than ever before – at least 1,006. That’s a 41% increase over the 2018 midterms, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund. While an estimated 5% of the U.S. population identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, […]

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