POLITICS

GOP Lawmakers Seek to Add ‘Dangers of Communism’ Program to High School Curriculum

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‘Communism is a cancer, and it always produces the same results: oppression, suffering and death,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) Republican lawmakers have reintroduced a piece of legislation that would create a civic education program that directly addresses the history of communism. Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) unveiled the

When America Was Really Red

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The Red Scare—the era from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s during which fears of domestic communism became one of the major issues in American political life—has generated innumerable books and articles dedicated to documenting its alleged victims and searching for those ultimately responsible for the harm it inflicted and the ways in which it distorted

Red Flag Warning

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Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton, now chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has authored a slender book that punches so much above its modest weight as to make a reader envision some skinny teenager—and Cotton is reportedly 6’5″—taking down Muhammad Ali or, in this case, obese Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. His multigenerational Arkansas roots aside,

Review of Greenhouse Gas Rule May Assure Coal Survival, but Not Revival

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Revising emission regulations could sustain declining industry, but expansion unlikely in ’the golden age of natural gas.’ HOUSTON—Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin’s March 12 announcement that he will “reconsider” power plant regulations adopted under the Biden administration is welcome news to the nation’s $28 billion coal-producing industry, mine operators said March 13 at