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May 12, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES- Climate science has struggled mightily with a messaging problem. The well-worn tactic of hitting people over the head with scary climate change facts has proved inadequate at changing behavior or policies in ways big enough to alter the course of global warming.
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May 11, 2019
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE- Donald Trump isn’t the first president to deploy troops to the Mexican border. A century and a half ago President James K. Polk sent troops over a territorial dispute that became the Mexican-American War. And a little over 100 years ago President Woodrow Wilson deployed troops at the border and into Mexico, first to protect American business interests there, and then sending more troops when violence from the Mexican Revolution began spilling into Texas and New Mexico.
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May 11, 2019
One popular definition of insanity is: doing the same thing again and again while expecting a different result. Decades of evidence show that rent controls are a bad idea, yet several Californian cities maintain their rent-control ordinances.
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May 11, 2019
A proposal imagines how building solar panels and wind turbines along the U.S.-Mexico border could unite calls for a Green New Deal and a border wall.
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