Op-eds
Climate inflation is eating your paycheck — and it’s only going to get worse
With less than four months to go until the presidential election, the economy is delivering some good news. At this point two years ago, inflation was above 9 percent. Last month, it dipped to 3 percent, while wages continued to grow.
The bad news is that a new villain has arrived on the scene. Call it “climate inflation.”
Over a generation, we’ve seen global climate change progress from science to a heated
To win, Biden and Democrats must go all-in against Trumpism
As President Biden fights to stay in the race for a second term, his message needs to change. He should not just run to keep Donald Trump out of the White House — he should run to purge Trumpism from Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Biden should push all his chips to the center of the table and prove his mettle by
A Speech President Biden Should Give
A fantasy: Assuming Joe Biden remains the Democrats’ presidential candidate, he steps up to the microphone and delivers the following speech.
My fellow Americans, I am speaking to you tonight because I want to be absolutely clear about my intentions in a second term as your president. I have said our country and the world are at an inflection point – a moment of great change. As someone (Buckminster Fuller) said, we will either be
The Trump Verdict Helps Stabilize American Politics
Many years ago, a freshman congressman wondered why House debate droned on over a bill that had already been thoroughly discussed. Veteran Rep. Morris Udall explained, “It is true that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.”
Columnists and editors already have written nearly everything worth saying about Donald Trump’s conviction last week on 34 felony charges. Now comes the second wave: comments on the commentary.
One of the initial reactions stands out
Doing the right thing for nature
The European Council has done the world a substantial service by approving a law to restore the continent’s damaged ecosystems.
Why the world? Because the EU’s new Nature Restoration Law sets an example other nations should follow. In degrading nature, we have degraded ourselves – our health, the quality of our lives, and the connections with our roots.
Besides, healthy ecosystems provide civilization with vital services at no cost. Failing to restore those services would be
Democracy on trial: global crisis & elections
In the nearly 250 years since the United States’ Founders wrote the Constitution, freedom and “God-given rights” in America have been subjected to profound stresses. But the world’s oldest living democracy has survived. When stress reveals weaknesses and flaws, our tradition in the U.S. has been to learn from and fix them.The Republic has prevailed despite civil war, the Great Depression, two major oil crises, two world wars, a couple of pandemics, and periods
“As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow.”
“We have, I hope, finally put to rest the false choice between the economy and the environment, for we have the strongest economy perhaps in our history, with a cleaner environment.”
“The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?”
“I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing.”
“Laws change; people die; the land remains.”