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Mon, January 30, 2023 | 23:47

Climate change is an emergency. Biden should use his executive powers to do more

The unexpected Senate deal on a $369 billion climate spending package is bound to ease pressure on President Joe Biden. Days earlier, when it looked like opposition from West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III had killed Biden's climate agenda, the president vowed to take “strong executive action” if the Senate would not act.

2022-08-08 16:50

Al-Zawahiri killing was a great success of a bygone era

The U.S. drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of al-Qaida and one of the last remaining architects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, delivered a measure of justice. It did not deliver resolution in the debates still surrounding U.S. counterterrorism policy.

2022-08-07 17:00

Helium balloons impose a toll on our air, land and sea

Most of us have seen helium balloons gently float into the sky, whether by accident or intentional release. Watching a balloon disappear into the clouds can feel almost tranquil. But what goes up must come down, with serious impacts on the environment.

2022-08-04 17:00

There's a new centrist political party. It's going nowhere

The founders of a new political party, “Forward,” acknowledge that third parties usually fail. They say that previous third-party efforts flopped “either because they were ideologically too narrow or the population was uninterested.”

2022-08-03 17:00

Bragg's bad choice: A prosecutor shines new light on Manhattan DA's Trump decision

As Attorney General Merrick Garland and Justice Department professionals ponder charging Donald Trump with felony charges for his apparent crimes related to his failed putsch at the Capitol during the electoral vote count as documented in detail by the Jan. 6 committee, the great grifter has no such fears about state charges from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who e...

2022-08-02 17:00

Everything is on fire. It doesn't have to be

The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to one of the world's largest rainforests, second only to the Amazon. Larger than Alaska, it contains a massive peatlands area that has trapped the equivalent of three years' worth of global carbon emissions.

2022-08-02 16:50

Veterans become political pawns

Veterans become political pawns

It was 4:00 p.m. on March 10, 1991, when the first planned explosion of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons went off at the U.S. weapons depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq, and the first gray-white smoke cloud that would come to be called The Plume wafted skyward and drifted over the troops. There would be many blasts that day.

2022-08-01 17:00

Iran is trying to play Saudis against US. It won't work

With President Joe Biden having departed the Middle East, the region's two prime antagonists are thinking about just getting along. Iran and Saudi Arabia, having completed five rounds of talks in Iraq over the past year, both said recently that they were moving toward higher-level negotiations on reconciliation. Paradoxically, this budding rapprochement between friend and foe...

2022-08-01 16:50

Are animals entitled to basic legal rights just like people?

Are animals entitled to basic legal rights just like people?

Happy is an Asian elephant who has lived since 1977 in captivity at the Bronx Zoo. In 2018, lawyers for a group known as the Nonhuman Rights Project went to court seeking her release to an elephant sanctuary.

2022-07-31 14:39

It's time to remember the civilian survivors of unresolved Korean War

Few Americans know that the Korean War, often referred to in the United States as the “forgotten war,” never officially ended. Although the United States and North Korea stopped military battles when they signed the armistice on July 27, 1953, they never negotiated a peace agreement to formally end hostilities.

2022-07-31 14:37

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