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Only A Green New Deal Can Meet Both Environmental and Economic Goals

C. J. Polychroniou argues that all financial and political links to the fossil fuel industry must be severely disrupted if any serious progress is to be made towards building a development-led green economy on a global scale. We live in a strange and dangerous world. By all accounts, the climate crisis threatens to destroy human civilization as we know it unless immediate action is taken to reduce to zero carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. As such, the conditions of rational discourse mandate that climate change would have become by now humanity’s number one priority. 

UMass Amherst Indian American Professor Mohit Iyyer Receives NSF CAREER Honor

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst March 31 announced that two members of its staff, including Indian American Mohit Iyyer, were honored by the National Science Foundation with CAREER Awards. Iyyer, along with fellow recipient Justin Domke, are both staff members in the university’s College of Information and Computer Sciences. The NSF’s CAREER program is intended to provide junior scholars who have the potential to serve as role models, both in their research and teaching activities, with significant funding. The ultimate goal of the grant program is to help cement the foundation for a lifetime of integrating research and teaching activities.

Polarizing Candidates Get a Shot at Cash in Democratic Vote Bill

Polarizing Candidates Get Cash Boost in Democratic Vote Bill Bloomberg 3 hrs ago Bill Allison (Bloomberg) Democrats in Congress are trying to increase the clout of small donors, yet a provision in their voting-rights legislation risks favoring candidates from either party who hold polarizing views and widening ideological divisions on Capitol Hill. As part of the sweeping voting-rights bill, House candidates who opt into public financing would get a 600% match for individual contributions of as much as $200, a move intended to lessen the power of deep-pocketed backers. Small-dollar donors, however, tend to give more to candidates who draw national attention as firebrands meaning the provision could end up rewarding partisanship.

Polarizing Candidates Get Cash Boost in Democratic Vote Bill

Polarizing Candidates Get Cash Boost in Democratic Vote Bill Bloomberg 7 hrs ago Bill Allison (Bloomberg) Democrats in Congress are trying to increase the clout of small donors, yet a provision in their voting-rights legislation risks favoring candidates from either party who hold polarizing views and widening ideological divisions on Capitol Hill. As part of the sweeping voting-rights bill, House candidates who opt into public financing would get a 600% match for individual contributions of as much as $200, a move intended to lessen the power of deep-pocketed backers. Small-dollar donors, however, tend to give more to candidates who draw national attention as firebrands meaning the provision could end up rewarding partisanship.

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