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Saturday, January 11, 2025

Column

The Green New Deal: The good, the bad and the ugly

The Green New Deal isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we’ve got The Green New Deal is not so new. Its roots stem from Franklin...

American liberalism and the cult of personality

For many Americans, political figures have replaced the traditional vanguards of morality 137 years ago, Nietzsche famously quipped: “God is dead.” In spite of its...

Why “Black Panther” didn’t win Best Picture

And why it didn’t deserve to (not that “Green Book” did) When I walked into the theater to see “Black Panther” a year ago, I...

A UC Davis professor thinks cops “need to be killed”

The university’s ‘support’ for law enforcement runs hypocritical and short-sighted I first heard about a UC Davis professor who thinks cops should be killed...

Big Tech and the battle for freedom of information

Google’s monopolistic control of internet search engines requires that it be regulated as a public utility Republican Party lawyer Harmeet Dhillon authored an op-ed in...

Trump’s campaign wasn’t a PR stunt or a serious presidential campaign — it was a serious PR stunt

These distortions of narrative give a disadvantage to Mueller, who is bringing facts to a PR fight America’s inability to agree on the seriousness...

Why everyone both loves and hates Joe Rogan for all the wrong reasons

The strengths — and shortcomings — of “The Joe Rogan Experience” are not the obvious ones Despite the massive success and cultural influence of his...

It’s not about hugging trees

Events in Joshua Tree National Park show how little we care about our environment Imagine this headline: Off-roading vehicle enters restricted area during middle...

How do you solve a problem like Maduro?

So long, farewell? Or is Maduro not the problem? Since National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president of Venezuela last month, news of...

The Student Debt Trap: Why millennials are settling down later

Mounting student loans are pushing back the prospect of marriage There was a lot of talk about America’s improved economic status during President Donald Trump’s...

A worthwhile debate or a reward to virtue signalers and trolls?

Some Catholics, Native Americans and Black Hebrew Israelites walk onto the Mall... After video of what appeared to be a group of MAGA hat-wearing Catholic...

The problem with “woke capitalism”

How the marriage of market capitalism with social progressivism trades the interests of the worker in favor of profit While it may have already fallen...

How Tulsi Gabbard threatens the Democratic status quo

A populist progressive enters the presidential race You may have missed it among the many Democrats who declared their presidential bids this month, but Hawaii...

I had a shot at the military. Why shouldn’t a transgender person be able to?

The reality of recruitment means everyone deserves a chance to serve It wasn’t long after my freshman year of high school that I developed a...

The problem with plastic roads

Counterintuitively, plastic roads increase our dependence on single-use plastics As the global population increases, the production of plastic does as well, with an average increase...