Commentary: Democrats must take a new media approach In the final month of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, she appeared on several so-called “nontraditional” media shows. Most notably, Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, ... 11/17/2024 - 8:17 pm | View Link
Republican senator accuses Dems, media of double standard on outrage over Trump's cabinet picks On NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Welker pressed Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, if Kennedy's skepticism toward vaccines could be a "deal breaker" in confirming the Trump nominee ... 11/17/2024 - 7:00 pm | View Link
Opinion: Democrats self-examine, but not the media It's been a week since Donald Trump's landslide re-election and some Democrats are using words like "realignment," "self-reflection" and "regret." It seems most on the losing side are rethinking their ... 11/15/2024 - 1:15 am | View Link
3 ways the Democratic Party messed up its media outreach this election cycle In a world where voters are bombarded with information from countless sources, no single media misstep carries the weight it once did. The real risk lies in not engaging at all. 11/14/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Can Democrats Compete With the Rogan-verse? As podcasters and YouTubers helped deliver the bro vote to Donald Trump, Democrats are facing criticism for not engaging enough with nontraditional media on the right—or elevating voices on the left. 11/11/2024 - 8:38 am | View Link
The defeat of Denver’s ambitious affordable housing sales tax by voters has generated plenty of reflection in the week since Mayor Mike Johnston and other supporters’ hopes for a narrow passage flickered out.
Political activists, observers and even supporters say the proposal suffered from the lack of a clear spending plan that could be explained to voters upfront.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The United States’s blossoming emergence as a clean energy superpower could be stopped in its tracks by Donald Trump, further empowering Chinese leadership and forfeiting tens of billions of dollars of investment to other countries, according to a new report.
Trump’s promise to repeal major climate policies passed during Joe Biden’s presidency threatens to push $80 billion of investment to other countries and cost the US up to $50 billion in lost exports, the analysis found, surrendering ground to China and other emerging powers in the race to build electric cars, batteries, solar and wind energy for the world.
“The US will still install a bunch of solar panels and wind turbines, but getting rid of those policies would harm the US’s bid for leadership in this new world,” said Bentley Allan, an environmental and political policy expert at Johns Hopkins University, who co-authored the new study.
“The energy transition is inevitable and the future prosperity of countries hinges on being part of the clean energy supply chain,” he said.
The majority of Republicans must either wake up and grow a pair, or acknowledge that they, too, are more than comfortable with the (fraud-heavy) status quo.