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The raging fires that have torn through the Los Angeles area are gripping the world's attention. Natural disasters like these don't ...

The challenge of the 20th century was that humanity could go extinct if a few well-positioned people happened to be reckless, extreme, paran...

I am a big booster of nuclear power . It's probably the single issue I've moved furthest on over the past five years (from "no...

I've written a bit about nuclear power before , and how it may be our best hope at achieving deep decarbonization in a reasonable time f...

David Roberts has a good beginner's rundown on what it will take to decarbonize the economy  (and, accordingly, avoid the catastrophic g...

When it comes to social change, I tend to prefer working within the system rather than seeking its radical overhaul. This isn't due to a...

Breitbart, the conspiratorial far-right website that starting in 2017 will more-or-less become the official media outlet of the Donald Trump...

This might actually be the dumbest thing I ever read : Bryan Fischer, the director of issues analysis of the conservative fundamentalist Ame...

I don't drink coffee, so it is tempting to just snicker at the coming apocalypse of rapidly increasing coffee prices . But if this is wh...

TPM and I had the exact same reaction to Jon Huntsman's "call me crazy" tweet ("To be clear. I believe in evolution and ...

A new paper coming out of Yale's Cultural Cognition project (led by Professor Dan Kahan) is getting some blogger buzz . Unfortunately...

Come to law school for the makeup class, stay for the workshop (actually going to the makeup class is apparently optional). * * * Former Uta...

Anybody interested in subletting an amazing townhouse in Hyde Park? * * * DougJ looks at the polling regarding Arizona's anti-immigrant...

There's a piece coming out in the WaPo complaing that liberals are so condescending to conservative ideas . American liberals, to a degr...

The South Jerusalem blog takes a break from commentary on Israel and Palestine to give us Rep. John Shimkus' (R-IL), er, unique perspec...

The Corner is worried that President Bush is about to submit to an "unconditional surrender" on Global Warming (I swear I'm n...