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Real estate has become climate change’s biggest victim. Climate change is attacking America’s most valuable, biggest asset class. For the first time in history there are regions of the country where major property insurers have dropped coverage altogether as elsewhere rates are on the climb, pricing some buyers out of the market. More

The Syrian regime’s brutal response to protests with bullets set this grim reality in motion: from the very beginning of the Syrian uprising (March 2011) mourning halls and visitation rooms were opened across Syria. Syrians gathered in these spaces as if they were the only social horizon left for their existence. These gatherings evolved from More

The federal bureaucracy is under a microscope as Elon Musk and his DOGE gang run roughshod over key government agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Aviation Administration, among several others. Federal government workers have been fired apparently indiscriminately, with many rehired shortly thereafter, sparking protests and widespread disapproval of Musk’s chaotic chainsaw approach. Musk and Trump are rapidly losing trust and goodwill, even among their allies. Читать дальше...

Seventy percent of Americans, including majorities of both Democratic and Republican voters, say that marijuana should be legal. Yet far too often, lawmakers choose to either ignore this constituency or treat them with outright hostility. In Republican-led states like Nebraska, Ohio, and Texas, elected officials are making it clear that election outcomes legalizing marijuana no longer matter to them. And More

My name is Ranjani Srinivasan. I was a 5th year PhD student at the Department of Urban Planning, GSAPP. I was also a TA in the Urban Studies Department at Barnard College.  Some of you might have heard about my case. For those who haven’t, I would like to share the details.  On Wednesday night (March More

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling vital public services in the name of combating “inefficiency.” That’s meant abruptly — and often illegally — firing tens of thousands of workers like me. The word “inefficiency” conjures images of long lines at the DMV and pencil pushing employees. But as a federal employee myself, I know More

No matter who we voted for, no one wants to see our grandparents forced onto the street, our schools without teachers, or our babies dying because there are no more hospitals. Yet all of these things will happen in the United States if deep cuts to essential programs like Social Security, SNAP, Medicare, and Medicaid More

Suppose a Russian or Chinese president stated (repeatedly), that he intends to “break” the USA economy, that he does not recognize its borders, and wants to annex the USA. It would immediately be taken by the USA -rightly so- as a declaration of war. This is exactly what has happened, as the US president Trump More

How we lost our rights in the kingdom of Musk-Trump As a person who consumes large amounts of information about peace and conflict in the world, I spend a considerable amount of time talking with people about how the governance of their communities is working. I talk with educators about what they are teaching and More

I might have missed Grover Cleveland’s 188th birthday on March 18 if Paul Jacob hadn’t pointed it out in his own column on the man who (as Jacob mentions) many libertarians consider “the last great president of these United States.” I don’t consider the presidency a venue for greatness, but as presidents go “Big Steve” More

I’ve stopped counting the articles on the Democratic Party’s disarray over how and when they should confront Tyrant Trump’s criminal destruction of our country, its people’s livelihoods, security for their families, and their freedom to speak and advocate for their concerns. Seized with internal doubts, fear, and cowardliness, most Democrats in Congress and the Party’s More