Press conference at Wisconsin Public Service Commission against the ATC Line, on June 26, 2019.Howard Learner
Judge William M. Conley watched as the Cardinal-Hickory Creek Transmission Line inched toward the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge—a 240,000-acre bird sanctuary through which the fully funded power project lacked the permits to pass. By January 2022, he’d seen enough. It “amounts to little more than an orchestrated trainwreck,” Conley, an Obama-appointed federal judge from the Western District of Wisconsin, wrote in
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, is one of those Cold War-era Washington relics that acquired a new relevance after Russia invaded Ukraine. But this year, the staff has been convulsed by internal strife that has nothing to do with the mission of promoting human rights.
It’s an odd turn of events that leaves Kremlin critics worried that office dysfunction has distracted an anti-authoritarian bulwark at a crucial moment — and … Read more
Few journalists and their sources have fallen out as completely as Kara Swisher and Elon Musk. The reporter met the future billionaire in the late 1990s, when she was a tech correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and he was just another Silicon Valley boy wonder. Over more than two decades, they developed a spiky but mutually useful relationship, conducted through informal emails and texts as well as public interviews.
Their frenemy shtick was on display, for example, when Swisher
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When Hamas attackers killed 1,400 civilians in a series of horrifying raids on October 7, politicians across the West voiced their shock and pledged their backing for Israel.
But as the Gaza conflict has unfolded, with Israeli forces killing thousands of Palestinians, that political consensus has fractured. And across the West, it is politicians on the left of the political spectrum who are struggling the most.
In the U.S.,
Drone footage taken from points on Britain’s faltering High Speed Rail 2 project has revealed the enormous scars ripped into the countryside across the route with as ministers due to make a decision on the northern leg this week.
If all had gone to plan, Britain would be just two and a half years away from high-speed trains whizzing between London and Birmingham, cutting travel times by around 30 minutes.
Construction workers should now be putting the finishing touches to
Ferocious wildfires have inflicted devastating damage across southern Europe and forced thousands of people to flee for their lives.
But just how bad are they in comparison to previous years?
It’s important to point out that this is ‘prime fire season’ for the Mediterranean and that such natural disasters are not unusual because of its ‘especially flammable’ landscape.
The region’s climate is the only one in the world with mild wet winters which allow vegetation to grow, and dry, hot
The election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold necessary to be installed.
“A small group of people, inside and outside this church, coordinated a divisive effort to use disinformation in order to persuade others to vote these men down as part of a broader
