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Culture Wars
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Perils of Cultural Protectionism
Attention all European firms that export to the U.S.! Thanks to a protectionist political project run by Canada and France, you…
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Protecting our Exports
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Our Science Can Beat Up Your Science: Playing Politics with Data.
A new front in the war over “sound science” opened on February 29, with the publication of a Washington Post op-ed by former American…
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The Fog of Warming: Dated Scripts on the Hill.
On Wednesday and for the fourth time in the past two years, John McCain's Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation staged a platform…
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Greenpeace, Earth First!, PETA
Greenpeace The grand-daddy of environmental direct action is Greenpeace. This organization has long functioned as a kind of protest “skunkworks,” dedicated to finding ever-more-unorthodox strategies…