Rules exist stating that judges must not only avoid actual conflicts of interest, they must also avoid the appearance of impropriety. But not so for the Supreme Court.
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Jackie Robinson was a member of and an active campaigner for the Republican Party. But by 1968 he was done with the GOP, and became more active in the civil rights movement.
The thawing and melting of the permafrost—which is estimated to hold twice as much carbon as is in the atmosphere today—is the worst of news for our climate and future.
Many people dread the time change to and from daylight savings that occurs twice a year—and for good reason.
The world should listen when Putin starts trash talking propaganda campaigns about other countries. Similar disinformation operations were run against Georgia before Russia’s invasion of that country in 2008.
Putin’s Russia fits the bill of a fully fascist state. The political system is unquestionably authoritarian — some might say totalitarian.
Russian stocks on the U.K. market have fallen by 98 per cent, wiping out US$572 billion of wealth, while the Russian stock exchange remains suspended. The Russian currency has fallen to 155 rubles per dollar, less than a penny.
Mild-mannered motorcyclist Guy Stewart Callendar connected carbon dioxide concentrations with rising temperatures and triggered a huge debate over the human role in climate change—in 1938.
Who are Putin's oligarchs, and what is their relationship with him? And more importantly, will eroding their wealth do anything to end the war in Ukraine?
The impacts of climate change and a warming future will compromise the achievement of societal goals like ending poverty and malnutrition, in the United States and abroad.
There is a good reason for Putin’s selective telling of the past exaggerating the legacy of Nazism in Ukraine: he fears democracy more than he fears Nazism.
With nearly 4 in 10 U.S. residents living and working near a coastline, the magnitude of the problem of rising sea levels is easy to see. Now add in every other country with a coastline.
The Solar Canal Project is an innovative idea that puts solar panels over the top of irrigation canals—a win-win concept that couples energy generation with a reduction in evaporation of precious water resources.
Wind farms can built to deliver renewable power to the grid and provide surplus power for carbon capture and storage, optimizing this massive investment for a direct climate benefit.
The suppression of voting rights is nothing more than an effort to turn back the clock on the American civil rights movement.
On Feb. 4, 2021, Biden addressed Putin in a statement delivered at the State Department. Biden said that the days of the U.S. rolling over in the face of Russian cyberattacks and interference in U.S. elections “are over.”