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Future of American democracy: How third-party candidates risk helping Trump win in 2024

Future of American democracy: How third-party candidates risk helping Trump win in 2024

Posted by | Sep 13, 2023

Whether they intend to be or not, third-party groups such as No Labels and the Green party are in effect front groups for Trump in 2024. No Labels has pledged to spend $70m to support a third-party candidate in 2024 who could easily draw enough votes from President Biden to tip the presidential election to Trump. No Labels has already qualified as a presidential party that can run candidates on the ballot in 10 states, including in both Arizona and Florida. It claims to be a centrist organization seeking a new bipartisanship, but it will not reveal its donors,...

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The 9/11 memory hole: Why future generations must not forget the lies that drove a failed War on Terror

The 9/11 memory hole: Why future generations must not forget the lies that drove a failed War on Terror

Posted by | Sep 11, 2023

Today is 9/11, the event that first brought America together and then was cynically exploited by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to have a war against Iraq, followed by their illegal invasion of Afghanistan just a bit more than a year earlier. Yet the media today is curiously silent about Bush and Cheney’s lies. Given the costs of both these wars — and the current possibility of our being drawn deeper into conflict in both Ukraine and Taiwan — it is an important moment to discuss our history of wars, both illegal and unnecessary, and those that are...

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Crappy little boats: USS Milwaukee part of Navy’s failed Littoral Combat Ship program that wasted billions

Crappy little boats: USS Milwaukee part of Navy’s failed Littoral Combat Ship program that wasted billions

Posted by | Sep 11, 2023

In July 2016, warships from more than two dozen nations gathered off the coasts of Hawaii and Southern California to join the United States in the world’s largest naval exercise. The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and others sent hundreds of destroyers, aircraft carriers and warplanes. They streamed in long lines across the ocean, symbols of power and prestige. The USS Freedom had its own special place within the armada. It was one of a new class of vessels known as littoral combat ships. The U.S. Navy had billed them as technical marvels — small, fast and...

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Water and sewage treatment plants across the United States face increasing threats from floods

Water and sewage treatment plants across the United States face increasing threats from floods

Posted by | Sep 8, 2023

The crack of a summer thunderstorm once comforted people in Ludlow, Vermont. But that was before a storm dropped eight inches of rain on the village of 2,200 in two days in July. And it was before the devastation of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Now a coming rainstorm can stir panic. “We could lose everything again,” said Brendan McNamara, Ludlow’s municipal manager. The rainfall that walloped Vermont last month hit Ludlow so hard that floodwaters carried away cars and wiped out roads. It sent mud and debris into homes and businesses and forced officials to close a main...

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Direct air capture: Energy Department project aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Direct air capture: Energy Department project aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Posted by | Sep 8, 2023

The Energy Department announced in August that it was awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials are calling the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history. The process, known as direct air capture, does not yet exist on a meaningful scale and could be a game changer if it did and were economical. “If we deploy this at scale, this technology can help us make serious headway toward our net zero emissions goals while we are still focused on deploying more clean energy at the same...

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Why borrowers should not risk delinquency or default when payments for student loans restarts

Why borrowers should not risk delinquency or default when payments for student loans restarts

Posted by | Sep 6, 2023

After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on federal student loan payments will end this fall. It might seem tempting to just keep not making payments, but the consequences can be severe, including a hit to your credit score and exclusion from future aid and benefits. More than 40 million Americans will have to start making payments again under the terms of a debt ceiling deal approved by Congress, though many could see their balances reduced or erased if the Supreme Court allows President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan to go ahead. A decision is expected this week, though...

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