James Hassett is a doctoral student in the history department at Northwestern University, interested in the green energy transition and the problems facing a warming world in the 21st Century.

Republicans claim they want energy abundance through an “all of the above” approach. Instead Trump and Congressional Republicans have launched a war on renewable energy at the expense of free-market ...

Republicans claim they want energy abundance through an “all of the above” approach. Instead Trump and Congressional Republicans have launched a war on renewable energy at the expense of free-market ...

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The No Kings anti-Trump protests against Trump will be widespread and potentially historic like the 1960s civil rights ...

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

The multibillionaire should quit attacking Trump and aim his fire at the president’s “disgusting abomination” of a bill.

Republican presidents have tried to defund the left with varying intensity and with mixed results but nothing like what Trump ...

After most Trump Tariffs were shot down by a trade court last month, all eyes turn to the Supreme Court and its Major ...

Threatened by conservative justices, the war on trans rights, and the Trump's hostility to civil rights, can marriage equality survive?

Obama prioritized the deportation of felons and security threats. Trump is giving us legal chaos, fewer deportations, and less safety.