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July 25, 2024

Groups seek to gut Wilderness Act on its 60th anniversary

A handful of mountain bikers have partnered with a notoriously anti-Wilderness senator to introduce legislation in the U.S. Senate that would gut the 1964 Wilderness Act during this, the 60th anniversary of that landmark law.

July 18, 2024

Democrats and Republicans don’t actually hate each other

Representative Kevin Crutchfield, a Republican from North Carolina’s 83rd District, strode to the back of the state legislature building, where four House pages — high school students who help out at the state legislature — were seated.

July 11, 2024

Three paths forward for immigration policy

This November, voters will choose between two radically different paths of immigration policy. Should Donald Trump be re-elected president, the nation will embark on a path of deportation, or the attempted deportation, of millions of people living in the U.S. Should Joe Biden or another Democrat occupy the White House next year, the country will likely continue its present course of political compromise: continued restrictions at the border, along with continued or new accommodations for immigrants living here without green cards or citizenship.

June 27, 2024

Project 2025 is disaster waiting to happen

An article released this week shows the end result of the decades-long, rightwing misinformation campaign that has targeted the heart of this country and swayed millions of normal, everyday Americans into the belief that people like Donald Trump and his billionaire backers are somehow looking out for the working and middle classes.

June 27, 2024

Straw men and strange bedfellows

In my college days I was a Goldwater Republican. My roommate and I saw eye-to-eye. Today he is a conservative Republican, and I am a progressive Democrat. We remain close friends, but this divide troubled me. I asked him to help me understand why the right harbors so much animosity towards the left. He responded with a link to a lecture given in 2020, by Tom Klingenstein of the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank. I now understand the anger. If Klingenstein’s arguments were honest and factual, I would be angry too.