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With SB 5462, Washington becomes the seventh state to mandate LGBTQ-inclusive education, along with Oregon, California, Colorado, Nevada, Illinois and New Jersey.

Legislators are taking a page from constitutionally dubious state laws that make carry permits highly impractical to use.

The ICC should prosecute Israelis responsible for bombing hospitals, denying access to medicines and vaccines, and causing excessive civilian harm.

With data is piling up to contradict any claims of “peak oil” within the next few decades, the IEA’s latest report on the oil and gas industry’s role in the transition to net zero pushes a pathway that would jeopardize global energy security and...

Environmental activists continue to try to set the narrative that the upcoming COP28 summit and push for a clean energy transition won’t be successful because of influence from the oil and gas industry. But the truth is the opposite: an energy...

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Several mainstream media outlets ignored the anti-LGBTQ history of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), the new Speaker of the House. Johnson was the fourth member up for the role, after Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Tom Emmer (R-MN) all failed to secure it following the ouster of Rep. Kev...

Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersSen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has drawn the ire of the U.S. military this year by consistently blocking routine military appointments requiring Senate approval in a relentless protest against Defense Department policies on abortion. He’s also been criticized for seemingly being confused about whether white nationalists in the armed forces are racist.Now it seems Tuberville may have been in a muddle about his own father’s service during World War II. On Tuesda...

Did he really join up at 16 and go on to serve as a tank commander on D-Day?

Housing choice vouchers and rent control policies should reinforce each other. When one tool in the housing toolbox is used in such a way that undermines another, @C_OGallachoir writes, tenants lose.