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Low-Energy Fridays: The Return of Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island (TMI), a nuclear power plant (NPP) near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is slated to reopen in 2028. The plant ...
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Explainer Series Intro: Rural Communities Need Harm Reduction, Too
Overdose deaths in the United States have claimed more than 100,000 lives annually in recent years. While the vast majority ...
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Last Gasp of ‘Progressive DA’ Movement?
As Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón heads toward defeat, it’s time to assess what went wrong with this ideological ...
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Looking Outside Our Orbit: How Satellites Can Reconnect Us in Crises
Hurricane Helene slammed into the southeastern United States at the end of September, leaving in its wake utter destruction ...
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Toxic plume: Did government ‘winner’ turn out to be a loser?
The fires are out at the recently incinerated BioLab facility that left large swaths of metro Atlanta paralyzed, but the ...
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Autonomous vehicles are here. Let’s embrace them
Highly autonomous vehicles are coming to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. “Called Glydcars and made by a company called ...
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Rebooting Federal Criminal Justice Policy
Crime has consistently ranked among the top issues for voters this election season. Once a bright spot of bipartisan ...
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Newsom Intelligently Wields Veto Pen
We usually expect the worst with this governor, but Gavin Newsom’s veto of a radical artificial intelligence bill that would ...
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Low-Energy Fridays: How should we think about rising hurricane costs?
As the Southeastern United States continues to reckon with the terrible loss of life and property brought about by Hurricane ...
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R Street Testimony in Opposition of the Belchertown Board of Health Regulations Restricting the Sale of Reduced Risk Nicotine Products
Jeffrey S. Smith, Senior Fellow, Integrated Harm Reduction, R Street Institute R Street Testimony in Opposition of the Belchertown Board of Health Regulations Restricting the Sale of Reduced Risk ...
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Real-world lesson: Ending rent control boosts housing supply
It should go without saying, but the United States became the world’s most-prosperous large nation by generally allowing the ...
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Balancing First Amendment Rights and Youth Protection | Age and Access in the Social Media Era
Vera Eidelman, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and Shoshana Weissmann, Digital Director and Fellow, R Street Institute sit down with Semafor.