For years, it has seemed that policymakers were far more focused on lining the pockets of climate activists than they were about actually helping the environment. The “45Q” tax credit, created by the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, and increased by the Inflation Reduction Act, is one of many examples, and one of […]
President Donald Trump wants technology companies to “build, bring, or buy all of the energy needed for building and operating data centers, paying the full cost of their energy and infrastructure” to protect Americans from higher electricity prices. His concern stems from projections that electricity demand from data centers could double or even triple by […]
Decades after a 1973 bombing which left its walls in ruins and led President Salvador Allende to take his own life, the Palacio de La Moneda — Chile’s neoclassical presidential palace at the heart of Santiago — is once again becoming a private residence. Breaking nearly seventy years of precedent, newly elected president Jose Antonio […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday announced his country was sending drone experts and interceptors to help safeguard U.S. bases in Jordan, diverting vital resources from defending against Russia’s relentless aerial onslaught of Ukraine, to aid the United States. Conversely, as noted by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to bolster Tehran to distract and […]
The Trump administration recently celebrated one year of embracing the movement to Make America Healthy Again. Unfortunately, many of these successes are overshadowed by slapdash decision-making at a key health agency, which significantly undermines the administration’s goals, threatens treatment access, choice, and safety for American patients, and hinders our longstanding reputation as a world leader […]
The Trump administration is offering a $10 million reward for information on Iranian leaders amid the U.S. conflict in the country. The State Department, via its Rewards for Justice division, says it is putting up a reward stretching up to $10 million “for information on the key leaders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
(The Associated Press) -- Jet fuel prices are rising as the war in the Middle East disrupts global oil supplies, putting cost pressure on airlines as the busy summer travel season approaches. Experts say it’s not a question of if airfares will go up, but when, for how long and by how much. The impact may be felt...
Universities exist to pursue ideas wherever they may lead. That mission cannot survive if professors must fear, as many now do, that a lecture, research project or public statement that someone in power deems objectionable, divisive or “un-American” might cost them their careers.
The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar's assassination 2,069 years ago today. Yet the republic's ruin still influences how we engage in politics today. As a student who has spent the past five years studying Latin and Roman history, I was surprised by...
President Trump said on Saturday that Iran is ready to make a deal with the U.S., but that he was not ready to come to an agreement and negotiate a ceasefire. “Iran wants to make a deal, and I don’t want to make it because the terms aren’t good enough yet,” Trump told NBC Newss’...