Humanity is using more resources per year than ever, and it’s getting to the point where the Earth can barely keep up. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can produce in that year. It is a date calculated by the Global ...

Almost a year after the devastating Hurricane Maria, reporters are still trying to discover the actual body count. While official counts totaled less than one hundred, it is now believed that over 4,500 Puerto Ricans died during and in the aftermath of the natural disaster. The island also remains in disarray, due to poor response from ...

Congress, as always, has been busy lately. Or at least the House of Representatives: Of the 768 bills passed by the House this Congress, 569 of the bills are still awaiting Senate action. That’s 75% of all bills this year. It begs the question why, with all branches of the government currently controlled by Republicans, does ...

Yesterday, I was looking through coverage of the Congressional Hearing where Mr. Strzok of the FBI was being interviewed by Congress. For a policy/politics aficionado, like myself, this sort of thing is better than the Super Bowl or World Cup. Lots of Kabuki. Republicans attempting to get Strzok to admit bias as he attempted to parse every ...

Trump just got a nice present before a heated midterm election. On the final day of the supreme court’s latest session, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he would soon retire. The 81 year old judge, nominated by President Reagan, would give Donald Trump his second nomination to the highest court in the United States. “For a member of the ...

July 11th is observed by the United Nations as World Population Day. Every year the world’s population increases by approximately 83 million, and even generous estimates expect we will reach 8.6 billion by 2030, and 9.8 billion by 2050. This year’s theme is “Family Planning is a Human Right.” The United Nations, through the UN Populations Fund, ...

Last week, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation to decriminalize marijuana on a federal level. The press release reads as follows: “The legislation allows states to continue to function as laboratories of democracy and ultimately decide how they will treat marijuana possession.” It continues, “The legislation, however, does not change federal authorities’ ability to prevent trafficking ...

Back in the 1980’s I was a counterintelligence officer for the Army, and early on in my career I developed an interest on the topic of terrorism. Working casual duty for a short time at Fort Huachuca, I helped pull together the first manual on anti-terrorism operations. Between 1985 – 1990, I had worked with ...

It’s almost the end of June and here we are with another edition of Policy Watch! Congress lately has been once more busy with immigration, so we’re going to take a quick look at those to help keep you informed. Before that, in an update from our last edition of Policy Watch, The Project Safe Neighborhoods ...

“Brave cadets of the United States Space Force Academy are signing up today to fight in the Third Moon War! American space marines are in heated battle with Chinese forces at the Sea of Tranquility, as star ships trade missile broadsides in the skies of Mars. Are you doing your part? Would you like to ...

Maine is undergoing an experiment in their elections, one which has never been tried on this scale before. In their latest primary, the people of Maine conducted their elections through ranked-choice voting, and if it is successful, we could see this all across the nation. The political history of Maine has been to say the least ...

As we acknowledge World Environment Day and World Oceans Day this week – days to recognize the human impact on our environment and discuss the best ways to help protect it – and in Pennsylvania, many are using the week to recognize the impact of fracking. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal, “Oil Is Above $70, but ...

June 5th is World Environment Day, and later this week on June 8th is World Oceans Day, two days that share a common theme this year: plastic pollution and waste. Think about how much plastic you encounter in a single day. It’s almost unfathomable: over a million plastic bottles are bought in the world each minute. Once these ...

Congress has taken its Memorial Day recess, but there is still legislation in Congress that you should know about! In an update from our previous edition of Policy Watch, of the bills highlighted, only the EGO Act was signed into law. This month’s edition will address some controversial, and some not so controversial, proposals in our ...

“Populism is America’s way of expressing class antagonism. It is a tradition of rhetorical protest that extends from Jefferson to FDR to Bernie Sanders…But protest isn’t the property of any particular party. the Democrats are lost in a fantasy of white-collar benevolence. their leaders have little personal sympathy any longer with the travails of working ...

Talking past each other as the planet gets more and more uninhabitable will likely not be recognized by William McGurn until the rising waters in NYC come lapping at his office door. His April 30, 2018 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Population Bomb Was a Dud—Paul Ehrlich got it wrong because ...

I have for the better part of a year followed the story of Robert Mueller’s special investigation into Russian election interference with a morbid fascination. I know many have felt the same: there was peak fervor surrounding similar investigations, such as the Valerie Plame case during George W. Bush’s presidency, the Whitewater investigation that nearly derailed President ...

Senator Bernie Sanders wants a bold new federal jobs program, and he’s right.

Recently Brian Olsavsky, Chief Financial Officer at Amazon, stated that effective May 11, new Amazon Prime subscribers would pay $119 for an annual membership as opposed to $99 for current members. This follows the release of Amazon’s first quarter earnings report which, according to financial reporter Shannon Liao, were “eye-popping,” with $51 billion in sales (North ...

This week we bring you another Policy Watch, an informational series where we aim to keep you informed on legislation trends in Washington. In an update on last month’s edition, none of the bills presented saw movement in Congress. However, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, which we showcased in ...