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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…
July 18, 2025
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…
July 15, 2025
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…
July 15, 2025
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.
July 7, 2025
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…
June 24, 2025
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.
June 24, 2025
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.
June 2, 2025
Josh Code
Why Europe’s Lights Went Out
Spain’s blackout is a cautionary tale of overreliance on wind and solar.
April 30, 2025
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.
March 23, 2025
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…
March 4, 2025
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…
February 24, 2025
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.
February 12, 2025
Nellie Bowles
WATCH: LA’s Fire Stations Are Falling Apart
Mold, potholes, broken doors, collapsed ceilings. LA’s firefighters live in horrible conditions while battling the most destructive fires in the city’s…
January 18, 2025
Austyn Jeffs
3M
LA Was Built to Burn
Blame whoever you want. But the reality is we built a massive civilization where fire is part of the natural habitat.
January 12, 2025
Leighton Woodhouse
Is a Foreign Adversary Flying Drones over New Jersey?
A congressman says it’s Iran. Former officials believe it’s Chinese drones. The Free Press investigates the mysterious sightings.
December 12, 2024
Madeleine Kearns
Can Pollution Save the Planet?
Attempts to reduce aerosols are actually making the world hotter.
June 27, 2024
Rupa Subramanya
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