How the Iran conflict will drive gas prices to midterm highs – and why that might accelerate the energy transition Under Biden, high gas prices were a supply-and-demand story largely beyond presidential control: a post-pandemic demand surge colliding with OPEC production discipline and a European energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The price …
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April 2026 The events of January 6th did not emerge from a vacuum. They were the visible output of a years-long process of norm erosion, base hardening, and the mainstreaming of conspiratorial and nationalist grievance — a process that relied heavily on a specific cognitive architecture: the simultaneous denial and acceptance of increasingly radical ideas. …
A Comparative Historical Analysis · May 2026 The cult of personality — the systematic construction of an idealized, quasi-divine public image of a political leader through propaganda, state media, public ritual, and the coercive suppression of dissent — is among the most reliably destructive political phenomena in the historical record. This review surveys its mechanics and consequences across ten …
White nationalism does not survive on confidence. It survives on panic. At its core, the ideology is less a movement than a mood—a chronic, simmering fear that the world is slipping out of grasp. And nowhere is that fear more naked than in its fixation on race, reproduction, and white motherhood. Strip away the slogans …
Universal Design as a Politics of Standardization Universal Design originated as a genuinely progressive intervention. Rooted in disability rights activism, it challenged the prevailing retrofit model of accessibility, which treated disability as an afterthought and accommodation as charity. The promise was ambitious: design systems usable by the widest range of people from the outset, building …
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Inland Rep. Ken Calvert says video games, loss of faith help fuel gun violence… and how is this is policy? HR 8: The Bipartisan Background Checks Act (2019, 2021): Calvert voted against the measure. HR 1446: Enhanced Background Checks Act (2021): Calverty voted against the measure.
Can someone really trust someone that has failed to understand the economic implications of climate change? Failed his constituents. Failed his state. Failed a minimum level of ethical values.
According to Ken Calvert, the shameful republican from SoCal who voted to reject the certification and support an insurrection, wants you to believe that he wants to solve the health care problem in the USA. The real question is what does he think the problem is? Apparently, he thinks getting reasonably priced prescription drugs is …
The images of the US Capital in siege in an attempt to stop the certification of the election is difficult to forget. The horrifying thought that a peaceful transition in power had failed is seared into our memory. As Trump promoted the fantasy of a rigged election and then encouraged people to subvert democracy — …
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