They did it while Louisiana drowned. They didn’t give a damn about how many people had lost their lives, or how many people will lose their lives if we don’t transition as quickly as possible away from fossil fuels. They couldn’t care less about the health impacts of carbon pollution, and the fact that it […]
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A Taxing Effort
Will Congress actually pass carbon-pricing legislation by December 31, 2017? This ambitious goal is not as far-fetched as it may seem—especially if Donald Trump damages the Republican Party so severely that the GOP actually loses both houses of Congress (also not a far-fetched prospect). Having said that, the final version of a carbon-pricing bill may […]
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
It all started with this tweet from NBC News: NASA releases sharpest images of Pluto ever taken; captured via spacecraft’s flyby in 2015. https://t.co/pcooJYhuhY pic.twitter.com/tGljue37U9 — NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) June 1, 2016 In response, Greta Van Susteren tweeted this: Why did they wait until NOW to release these? pics taken in 2015 and we […]
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Government Can Work
I had my job interview at The Washington Monthly in February 1976. Everything went extremely well. In those days most of the life of the magazine took place in three locations, none of which exists anymore: the La Salle Building, a combination cheap residential hotel and office building, where the actual office was; the old Sholl’s Colonial Cafeteria, […]
