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Meet the California Millionaire Funding Anti-Oil Lawsuits—And the Columbia Academics Working To Influence the Judges Handling The Cases

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Dan A. Emmett’s contributions reflect an emerging trend in which left-wing donors bankroll climate litigation and climate-related academic literature intended to influence judges Dan Emmett (yale.edu), Sher Edling logo (sheredling.com), Sabin Center for Climate Change Law logo (@SabinCenter/X) Lawsuits seeking to hold the nation’s biggest oil companies accountable for global warming and extreme climate events—and

GOP’s John Sununu ‘Very Confident’ He Can Win Under-the-Radar New Hampshire Senate Race As Polling Shows Tight Contest

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NORTH HAMPTON, N.H.—The race for New Hampshire’s open Senate seat has yet to attract the sort of national media attention as the contests in Maine, Michigan, and Texas, where left-wing Democratic candidates have driven national headlines by donning Nazi tattoos, refusing to celebrate the death of the ayatollah, and calling God nonbinary. But the Republican

Maine Democrat Graham Platner Vows To Work With ‘Ron Paul,’ Thomas Massie if Elected to Senate: ‘Very Much Aligned’

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Platner, speaking during a virtual town hall, also vowed to ‘get arrested … over the course of the Trump administration’ Graham Platner (Free Beacon) and Thomas Massie (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) The left-wing candidate in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, Graham Platner, said he would “be willing to work” with Kentucky Republicans “Ron Paul”

Guests of the Nation

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For evidence of a so-called cultural vibe shift, the pendulum swing away from the extreme sensitivity and irrational wokeness of the preceding decade, look no further than Lionel Shriver’s new novel, A Better Life, a blunt but layered—and entertaining—depiction of America’s once-lax immigration policies. First, cast your memory back to the dawn of this decade,

No One Is Alone, Except Maybe Stephen Sondheim

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Despite favoring sometimes-ghastly subjects, overly calculated lyrics, and eminently unhummable music, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim was something of a conservative when it came to acknowledging his forebears. In Sondheim’s case, that chiefly meant lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, who gladly accepted the role of substitute father to the boy then known as Stevie—a comprehensively unhappy child of

How to Handle Your Out-of-Control Ivy

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That video of congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, grilling college presidents about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated their university policies—and the college presidents responding that it depended on the context—has been viewed more than a billion times, making it what the jacket copy of her new book calls “the most-watched