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William S. Becker, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
The right of all Americans to pursue happiness may be inalienable, but it has little meaning when so many are denied the basic tools to use it.
We should watch whether President Trump’s real motive is to reshape the government to reflect his badly misinformed opinions and Project 2025, whose...
The oil industry is causing another life-threatening problem. Plastic waste has invaded the bodies of virtually every breathing lifeform on the...
What happens when an incoming leader has an opinion so ill-informed that it threatens national security, economic stability, millions of new jobs,...
We must never again elect a president who devalues sacrifice and puts their political career above the lives of the men and women they send to war.
After billions of dollars in campaign spending by the two major-party candidates, it mostly came down to the price of a loaf of bread.
We have reason to worry when nearly half the nation's voters tell pollsters they'll vote for Trump.
The solution to climate change is to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy; thanks to the Biden administration and the Inflation Reduction Act...
The former president plans to revive the spoils system by firing as many as 50,000 careerists and replacing them with loyalists.
Brashness, braggadocio, mockery and brutishness are not strengths.
There is hope today despite what may seem like unsolvable problems.
We can't let short-term problems distract us from a metastasizing cancer.
The November election is a chance for voters to bring national energy policy back in line with reality.
It's time for all Americans to take it back and display it as the symbol it was meant to be: the flag of one nation, indivisible.
As voters check the boxes on their ballots two months from now, they will decide two interrelated questions: Will America’s future be stable and...
Science, which plays a crucial role in governance and public policy, should not be a partisan issue. Yet it has become one.
The November election will be a referendum on government activism, and the question between the lines on the national ballot will not be whether the...
In politics, a lie is not a mistake. It's a tactic.
Thee final months of the 2024 election are shaping up as an opportunity for the baby boom generation to leave a historic legacy related to the social...
President Biden has proposed a constitutional amendment to make clear that presidents are not above the law, and other important changes include...
The attack on the "administrative state" reopens the debate about whether America is ruled by a plutocracy or a democracy.
Climate inflation is a big problem; it is ongoing, growing and permanent because our weather is on track to get far more violent and costly.
Joe Biden should not just run to keep Donald Trump out of the White House — he should run to purge Trumpism from Congress and the U.S. Supreme...
The ruling causes enormous confusion over the nation's most fundamental laws and principles, with little guidance on how courts and juries should...
The verdicts came quick and harsh in the hours after the Biden-Trump debate Thursday evening. Commentators called it "disastrous," "fumbling" and...
Sometimes daydreams come true.
Protecting the planet can be profitable.
The justices on our highest court have argued they can't always be bound by the usual ethical constraints and remedies - it's time to give them a...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a law to delete the words "climate change" from state statutes, as though erasing the words erases the threat.
America’s democracy is in big trouble if it depends on a well-informed electorate.
Even though Trump left office, he didn't leave the spotlight.
The unholy alliance between America's governments and the fossil fuel industry has been going on for decades, undeterred and unpunished.
One of the great mysteries of the Donald Trump era is why so many Christians view him positively.
t's a sad commentary on older Americans, but it now is up to children and young adults to save their future.
And while we continue avoiding another stone age by exploring space and creating new technologies, we should respect and learn from nature.
Former President Trump will be back in a New York courtroom Monday, this time for the start of his first criminal trial in a matter involving a hush...
There is no shortage of crises from which to learn today, but three have reached existential importance: the loss of faith in democracies,...
America needs to step back and ask whether there is anything we can do to restore civility to civil society.
Reforming the Supreme Court should be top of the list for the next Congress's Contract with America.
There is trouble in rural America.
In their unanimous decision, the nine justices ruled that states don't have the authority to keep candidates for federal office off their election...
The U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t seem to care about its credibility any more.
For the oil and gas industry, foul air is the smell of money.
Age is not the most important issue in this election. The candidates' values, motives and deeper mental health matter.
What can Biden do to win back the votes of young Americans worried about global warming?
The implications of this case go deeper than Trump's eligibility to hold office. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a solemn oath means...
Democracy's enemies have told us what they would do. Democracy's defenders must respond.
Today, even Gordon Gekko could not credibly claim greed is good in the oil and gas sector.
We will see in the long primary election season that begins in Iowa today how much the American people care.
President Biden should promise to fill the roughly 4,000 appointments in government with talented young people who can help shape the future in which...