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This Week in Canada: Trump Sparks a ‘Three-Alarm Fire’ for Canadian Manufacturers
Canada’s anti-terrorist chief stands up for a suspected terrorist, not-so-crazy talk about an invasion, and much more. Brought to you by Rupa…
Rupa Subramanya
Progressives Against Progress
Whether it’s on identity, economics, or merit, the American left is no longer committed to progress. Can it return to the universal values on which it…
Ruy Teixeira
What Dead Birds Have to Do with the End of Europe
Throughout Europe, cratering birth rates and an accelerating brain drain are converging into a demographic crisis. You can see it now in the dying…
Josephine de La Bruyère
The Texas Floods Were an Avoidable Tragedy
This weekend, disaster struck one of the nation’s most flood-prone areas, where centuries of data show casualties were foreseeable and preventable.
Roger Pielke Jr.
Will Trump Keep Public Lands in Public Hands?
We live in a nation where anyone, rich or poor, has access to such a beautiful diversity of landscapes. The president must block any attempts to change…
Steven Rinella
The Government Is Coming for Our Wilderness. The Falconers Aren’t Happy.
The president’s Big Beautiful Bill threatens not only the environment but also certain Americans’ constitutional right to hunt.
Rachel Dickinson
Smells Like Green Spirit
New York City’s new eco-policy mixes food scraps with sewage and burns the result. It’s not what residents had in mind.
Josh Code
Why Europe’s Lights Went Out
Spain’s blackout is a cautionary tale of overreliance on wind and solar.
Emmet Penney
‘Abundance’ Is a Winning Message. But Can Democrats Embrace It?
The politics of plenty is having a moment. I’m glad. But it will be a hard sell in today’s Democratic Party.
Ruy Teixeira
A $20 Billion Slush Fund—Paid by You to Progressive Nonprofits
It appears the billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden…
Madeleine Rowley
Everybody Freeze! It’s the Climate Police
In their quest to slow climate change, bureaucrats in the U.S. and Canada advance restrictive edicts that make very big headlines and very little…
Doomberg
Nellie Bowles: The Triumph of the Plastic Straw
They took our straws and made us drink from mushy paper. And it was based on a 9-year-old’s bad math.
Nellie Bowles
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