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Trump should stick with instincts and avoid a disastrous war with Iran

May 16, 2019

On Monday, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration had reviewed plans to send as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East to address provocations or nuclear weapons development by Iran. Such ...

Pompeo’s rosy take on Arctic warming reveals the administration’s climate hypocrisy

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May 7, 2019

Environment, Opinion, Science

For an administration that has routinely denied that climate change is anything more than a hoax, Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quick to celebrate its effects on Monday. At a meeting of the Arctic ...

Pence calls for NASA to land astronauts on the moon within five years

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Mar 29, 2019

Innovation, Science

Vice President Pence has called for NASA to conduct a crewed mission to the surface of the moon within five years, according to the Washington Post. It would be the first time that astronauts have walked on th...

In tying funding for research to his free speech order, Trump endangers both

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Mar 24, 2019

Opinion, Policy, Science

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order requiring colleges and universities to certify that they are protecting free speech on campus in order to receive research grants from the federal governme...

Trump administration issued 1,700 exemptions to offshore drilling rules

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Feb 25, 2019

Environment, Policy, Science

Trump’s Interior Department has issued a large number of exemptions to an Obama-era offshore drilling rule put in place after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Critics say the readily available waivers...

Trump’s critics should back his HIV plan, but hold him to it on all fronts

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Feb 6, 2019

Health, Opinion, Policy, Science

For the most part, President Trump’s second State of the Union speech met the expectations of his critics, with plenty of boasting, showboating, and many statements that only make sense given the worldview of T...

The EU’s diplomatic status was quietly downgraded by the Trump administration

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Jan 8, 2019

Policy, Science, World

Trump’s state department downgraded the diplomatic status of the European Union’s US delegation at some point in 2018, without informing the EU, according to the Washington Post. Since 2016, the EU delegatio...

Trump’s EPA challenges the legal basis for Obama-era mercury rule

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Dec 29, 2018

Environment, Policy, Science

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that regulations limiting mercury and other emissions from power plants are not providing benefits worth the cost of their implementation, according to NPR. While...

New impact report advances plans for oil drilling in Alaska’s fragile Arctic

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Dec 21, 2018

Environment, Science

The Trump administration advanced its efforts to allow oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Thursday, with a draft environmental report, the Washington Post reports. The assessment...

Thank Trump’s trade war and regulatory rollbacks for the GM layoffs

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Dec 2, 2018

Opinion, Policy, Science

General Motors announced Monday plans to cut almost 15,000 jobs from its North American workforce, in its biggest restructuring since declaring bankruptcy in the 2008 financial crisis and receiving its governme...

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