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"Their influence is one of the biggest reasons why 25 years of UN climate talks have not led to real cuts in global emissions."

For many on the Left, last week’s elections came like a gut punch. But zoom out beyond the high-profile races cable news pundits fixated on, and Tuesday saw many significant victories for left-wing candidates and policies.

The United States has a terrible habit of letting white supremacy get away with repeated attempts to murder American democracy

The wages of wokeness

In the current polarized political atmosphere, many college graduates follow politics obsessively and identify with one of the two parties. Many working-class voters, on the other hand, vote for both parties and sit out some elections.

The $550 billion legislation includes some massive investments — while failing to fully address the country’s needs.

Responding to this pressure, public companies are selling their fossil fuel assets, only to have them repeatedly scooped up by private equity firms—thereby shifting pipelines and other polluting assets to a shadowy industry that is less accountable..

Islands have contributed little to global emissions yet stand to suffer disproportionately from climate change. Now, they are demanding more funding to protect themselves.

"Conservative Democrats are trying to tell my community that we should just shut up and accept a half deal," Rep. C. Bush tweeted. "... We won't accept anything less than the President's full agenda."

Medieval weapons laws, including a 1328 English statute prohibiting the public carry of edged weapons without royal permission, are at the center of dueling legal opinions in the most important gun rights before the Supreme Court since 2008.