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The images are surreal. Truckloads of National Guard troops pouring into the nation’s capital in the days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. As the perimeter of security fencing has been extended farther out from the recently violated Capitol, as well as the White House, these scenes symbolize not just the threat of disorder, but a deepening physical separation of the people from their elected leaders.
It should be a time of celebration, not of self-destruction and armed standoffs at the temples to our democracy, now fitted with extra metal detectors and swarming security.
President Trump has just been impeached for a second time for his actions before, and inaction during, the Capitol riots Jan. 6 that have left five dead. A second impeachment is unprecedented, as is the fact that 10 of the president’s own party members in the House voted in favor. Kicked off most popular social media sites, the president has lost his voice as well ther
With Only a Week Left in Trump’s Presidency, a Last-Ditch Effort to Block Climate Action and Deny the Science
An EPA rule finalized Wednesday barred future regulation of greenhouse gases in “stationary sources” like oil refineries, and two administration scientists published climate science-denying papers.
January 14, 2021
Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), testifies during a hearing titled Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago / various sources / AFP) (Photo by AL DRAGO/Bloomberg/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump’s appointees took their final shots at staving off future climate action this week, even as his presidency careered to an inglorious end with a second impeachment.
Joanne Silberner is a health policy correspondent for National Public Radio. She covers medicine, health reform, and changes in the health care marketplace.
Joanne Silberner is a health policy correspondent for National Public Radio. She covers medicine, health reform, and changes in the health care marketplace.
Wheeler Announces a New ‘Transparency’ Rule That His Critics Say Is Dangerous to Public Health
In one of his final acts, the EPA administrator restricted the agency’s use of research findings based on “secret science,” aka confidential patient health data.
January 6, 2021
Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, listens during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images
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In one of his final, boldest strokes as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler on Tuesday announced a new “transparency” rule that could keep the agency from considering some of the most well-documented health research in the world. The Trump administration argues that because the patient information in these studies remains confidential, they are “nontransparent.”