Melanie Nakagawa Named NSC Director for Climate
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Melanie Nakagawa
WASHINGTON Melanie Nakagawa is among the members of the National Security Council announced on Jan. 8 by the Biden-Harris Transition.
Nakagawa, who served on the Biden-Harris Transition focused on climate change and energy, has been named senior director for climate and energy. She will work on the U.S. return to the Paris Agreement and President Joe Biden’s objective of integrating climate change into all aspects of U.S. foreign policy.
In the Obama-Biden Administration, Nakagawa was appointed deputy assistant secretary for energy transformation at the U.S. State Department and served as a strategic advisor on climate change to Secretary of State John Kerry on the policy planning staff. Biden has named Kerry as special envoy for climate and given him a seat on the NSC.
On the morning of Jan. 6, I was cackling over “Stop the Steal” rally attendees’ clueless posts about parking in Washington. Future Tense contributor Faine Greenwood was lurking on TheDonald.win, a Trump fan discussion site, and tweeted the best examples of out-of-towners fretting about the logistics. (I particularly loved the person who thought that 6 a.m. pandemic D.C. traffic was “psycho.” Buddy, you have no idea.) By the end of the day, everything seemed a bit less funny. But as a new and furious round of discussion about deplatforming erupted, it still seemed perfect that the morning began for me with screenshots of TheDonald.win.
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January 15, 2021 at 1:25 PM
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The rest of 2020 may have pushed the impeachment process from everyone’s memory banks, but the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump began a year ago tomorrow. All the sanctimonious “well, actually, ‘impeachment’ is different than an impeachment and conviction” hacks had already lived out their Brainy Smurf dreams and the entire country was well prepared for the process.
Alas, it’s 2021, and the sanctimony is back, so let’s have a quick review. The House of Representatives has impeached Donald Trump. This sets up a mandatory trial in the Senate to be presided over by a very grumpy Chief Justice of the United States.
WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump now the only U.S. President in history to be impeached twice, local Congresswoman Madeleine Dean will be part of the effort to make him