The Trump administration has already sought to reverse several Obama-era climate change policies. Pro-environment people should now focus on threats to state climate actions.
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Trump administration – Analysis and Comment
A climate scientist and policy scholar sees three possible scenarios following Trump’s plan to pull out of the Paris Agreement –
ranging from a small uptick in emissions to a global recession.
As President Trump pulls the US out of the Paris climate accord, China is cutting pollution and dominating clean energy manufacturing. Now it can claim global leadership for those actions.
A panel of academics and scientists explain the damages to the Earth, the economy and US moral standing in the world by Trump’s decision to abandon the Paris climate accord.
President Trump’s budget would cut funding for Superfund, which cleans up the nation’s most toxic sites, by nearly one-third. An economist explains how Superfund cleanups benefit local communities.
Who are those people out there marching on Washington, DC? Researchers at the University of Maryland did a survey to find out.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
The first two Muslim-American women are in Congress now. They stand in a long and little-known tradition of Islam in America.
The Trump administration’s cuts to social programs like career and technical education would deal a blow to its efforts to boost economic growth.
The United States is seeing an uptick in far-right extremist violence. It’s time to pay more attention to this scourge and its causes.
We asked an expert on diplomacy and foreign policy.
President Trump claims that churches suffer from the over-regulation of their political speech. In reality, oversight is lax for religious groups and secular tax-exempt nonprofits alike.
Surveys show Trump’s election is damaging America’s reputation abroad, which research suggests could deal a sharp blow to US trade.
A linguistics scholar explains why the loss of Arabic in Israel would be a loss of history, culture and possibly human rights.
The 28th president’s ideology has never really gone away.
For Trump, putting America first means that being a global leader on human rights may take a back seat.
President Trump’s budget reportedly will slash funding for clean energy research and development. An energy expert explains the importance of government support and spotlights some key opportunities.
How will Mueller perform as special counsel? A historian compares his actions with another former FBI director to find out.
All recent Republican presidents have cut off foreign aid tied to abortion. Trump’s expansive version of those restrictions endangers billions slated for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
A president has more than one route out of office – voluntarily or otherwise.
Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
Could Trump be removed from office? Answering that question is less about understanding the law and more about counting votes.
A professor who once held top secret clearance explains how levels of classification work and where handling sensitive information gets tricky.
Whispering secrets is a sign of a lack of trust.
An FBI historian tells stories from the agency’s ups and downs over 109 years and four dismissed directors.