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Our Best Stuff From the Week of Thanksgiving

Nov 30, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Kevin Williamson |Alina Clough |Wilson Shirley

Plus: Have we got some deals for you. Published November 30, 2024 Hello and happy Saturday. Whether it was large or small, festive or quiet, full of old traditions or the source of new ones, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. We were missing a few faces at our family dinner but enjoyed a nice meal with loved ones. Our main focus the last few weeks has been on Donald Trump’s transition back to the White House.
I Thought Happiness Was ‘Idiocracy’ in the Rear-View Mirror

Nov 30, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Alina Clough |Jonah Goldberg |Nick Catoggio

I owe Mike Judge an apology. When the brilliant satirist behind Beavis and Butt-Head and Office Space came out with his 2006 masterpiece Idiocracy, I enjoyed the film but was critical of it. I thought it was too cynical, too cruel, that it took too low a view of human beings in general and of U.S.A.-American-type human beings in particular. Eighteen years later, the Trump administration is plumbing the world of professional wrestling for the next secretary of education.
A More Humanist Conservation

Nov 29, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Alina Clough |Will Rinehart |Charles Hilu |Quill Robinson

Policy Left-wing environmentalism treats humans as a threat to the environment. But this planet is our home. Published November 29, 2024 As much of the country turned its attention toward southern hurricanes earlier this year, wildfires blazed across the western U.S. in Montana, Wyoming, and parts of Idaho.
Guest opinion: The results are in - Curtis won on climate

Aug 22, 2024 | standard.net | Alina Clough

The climate is shifting in Republican politics, at least on climate. Republican politicians and strategists alike often consider climate to be a weak point for candidates seeking office, worrying that talking about climate change will seem like a trade-off for the issues voters truly care about. At least, until recently. Rep. John Curtis' landslide victory over his opponent wasn't just in spite of his strong support of pro-climate policies. In many ways, it was due to them.
Guest opinion: The results are in - Curtis won on climate

Aug 21, 2024 | heraldextra.com | Alina Clough

The climate is shifting in Republican politics, at least on climate. Republican politicians and strategists alike often consider climate to be a weak point for candidates seeking office, worrying that talking about climate change will seem like a trade-off for the issues voters truly care about. At least, until recently. Rep. John Curtis’ landslide victory over his opponent wasn’t just in spite of his strong support of pro-climate policies. In many ways, it was due to them.
How Nixon can secure our electricity grid from beyond the grave

Apr 24, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Alina Clough

OPINION: The Biden administration’s new vehicle rules accelerate electrification just as artificial intelligence and manufacturing are spiking electricity demand. With utilities doubling their forecasts for new power demand in the next five years, ensuring grid stability will require much more power supply. Thankfully, President Richard Nixon laid out the blueprint for solving this problem with nuclear energy over 50 years ago.
On Earth Day, sacrifice your pessimism, not your progeny, to save the planet

Apr 22, 2024 | nypost.com | Alina Clough

"Climate change is a challenge we must address. But exaggerating the problem helps no one," says columnist Alina Clough. TenWit - stock.adobe.com Growing up, my classmates and I celebrated Earth Day, April 22, by planting trees — and thinking of future generations that would enjoy their shade.
China Faces Consequences of the One-Child Policy

Feb 14, 2024 | providencemag.com | Alina Clough

China’s one-child policy, enacted from 1980 to 2016, sought to reduce the population growth rate by limiting citizens to one child per family, often resorting to forced abortions, sterilizations, and economic coercion towards this end. Now, policymakers in Beijing face the opposite problem: with China’s plummeting birth rate now becoming an economic threat, the government is trying to backpedal.
Anthony Edwards Is Proof We Need to Talk about Coercive Abortion — The Conservateur

Dec 20, 2023 | theconservateur.com | Isabelle Redfield |Alina Clough

“Her body, her choice” is a frequent refrain of pro-abortion advocates. We take it for granted that every abortion performed, while perhaps not enthusiastically undertaken, is at least the choice of the woman taking the pills or on the operating table. What’s too rarely addressed though, is the all-too-common situation of women like Instagram model Paige Jordae being forced into abortion by the men who fathered their babies.
“Napoleon” Is The Latest Victim Of The Darkened Film Trend

Dec 11, 2023 | eviemagazine.com | Alina Clough

Color is slowly disappearing from our lives, and the new Napoleon movie is the latest casualty. Our homes, wardrobes, , and even fast food restaurants are on the hunt for the kind of sleek minimalism that only monochromatic color schemes can satisfy. Increasingly, our movies are no exception. For some reason, directors have decided that increasingly gray and bleak aesthetics are the way to signal a serious movie.