This may be hard to believe but it was Republican Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon that led the way in starting land conservation, creating National Parks, launching the Environmental Protection Agency, cleaning our rivers, terrain, and air, and signing the Endangered Species Act. Those enlightened Republican Administrations have given way to an Anti Science … Read more
Readers of the Charles Dickens classic will remember the scene early in the tale where two philanthropic businessmen visit Scrooge at his business and ask that he contribute charity to help the unfortunate. Scrooge dismisses them, saying that he wants to be left alone and that the prisons and workhouses he supports through the taxes … Read more
The New York Times has done an analysis of the striking degree of overlap between the incendiary rhetoric of right-wing media provocateurs and the language used by the Texas man who confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso. How the El Paso Killer Echoed the Incendiary Words of Conservative Media Stars … Read more
Two conclusions regarding this Administration’s anti-immigration policies can be reached with last weeks I.C.E. raids in Mississippi and today’s release of the pending Executive Order on changing the guidelines for Legal Immigration. They are: Illegal Immigrants can be charged and detained away from their families while the employers who broke the law hiring them (and … Read more
Axios recently reported that “17 countries use more than 80% of their available water supplies every year, meaning droughts or increased water demand for agriculture and growing cities could leave them at risk of crisis, according to the World Resources Institute.” Last year, the nearly 4 million people who live in Cape Town, South Africa … Read more