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Green New Deal

Donald Trump | Win McNamee - Pool via CNP/Polaris/Newscom

Donald Trump

Trump Claims He Ended the Green New Deal

It's not clear he has.

Jeff Luse | 3.4.2025 11:59 PM

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris | AFP / GDA Photo Service/Newscom

Election 2024

Trump and Harris Are Just Making It Up as They Go

Both are embracing a total policy nihilism and turning the election into a cynical pander-off.

Eric Boehm | 8.1.2024 2:15 PM

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former President Donald Trump, and President Joe Biden as seen on "The Real Debate" | Screenshot, X

Election 2024

Biden, Trump, and RFK Jr. Are All Anti-Freedom

Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.

John Stossel | 7.3.2024 12:30 AM

Bjorn Lomborg headshot in front of a picture of earth | Lex Villena

Climate Change

Bjorn Lomborg: How Our Climate Fixation Hurts the World's Poor

The 'skeptical environmentalist' offers 12 low-cost, proven policies that he says could save 4.2 million lives and generate $1.1 trillion in new wealth every year.

Nick Gillespie | 9.27.2023 2:15 PM

existential-crisis | Lex Villena

Climate Change

Bjorn Lomborg: Why Do We Fixate on Climate Rather Helping the World's Poor?

The 'Skeptical Environmentalist' offers 12 low-cost, proven policies that he says would save 4.2 million lives and generate $1.1 trillion in new wealth every year.

Nick Gillespie | 9.27.2023 10:52 AM

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Housing Policy

D.C.'s 'Green New Deal for Housing' Is Doomed Before It Begins

Social housing supporters hope that the city can get city-owned, city-operated housing right with a new office, a more expansive mission, and different branding.

Christian Britschgi | 12.2.2022 3:35 PM

Climate change protest | Stossel TV

Energy & Environment

When Sri Lanka Banned Synthetic Fertilizers, the Country Imploded

Green activists have some good points. But the pursuit of a chemical-free world hurts vulnerable people the most.

John Stossel | 9.7.2022 5:05 PM

Thumbnail (6) | Lex Villena

Ayn Rand

Alex Epstein: Why the Future Needs More Fossil Fuels

The energy policy analyst says cheap and abundant gas, oil, and coal will continue to play a central role in human flourishing.

Nick Gillespie | 5.18.2022 5:13 PM

Illustration_ Lex Villena, Lauren Roberts | Illustration: Lex Villena; Lauren Roberts

Government Spending

Taxing the Rich Isn't Enough to Pay for Democrats' Welfare State. They'll Need To Soak the Middle Class Too.

There simply aren't enough rich people to finance all the new spending.

Veronique de Rugy | 9.16.2021 1:04 PM

8127387_image | Graphic by Lex Villena

IPCC

Why We Shouldn't Fear a Climate Apocalypse

Environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr. says many media interpretations of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are "irresponsible."

Nick Gillespie | 8.17.2021 1:11 PM

krtphotoslive887382 | Daniel Mears/TNS/Newscom

Flood Insurance

Drown the Federal Flood Insurance Program

Why is the government encouraging people to live in dangerous, flood-prone areas?

Revana Sharfuddin | 7.26.2021 3:40 PM

rollcallpix132327 | Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Joe Biden

Joe Biden Just Outlined the Most Expensive Agenda in Modern History. Progressives Want More.

"We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing," says Rep. Jamaal Bowman. "We need a Green New Deal for Cities…and we need a Green New Deal for Public Schools."

Eric Boehm | 4.28.2021 11:50 PM

zumaamericastwentynine123877 | Michael Brochstein/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Election 2020

The Voters Eschewed Extremism on Election Day

Americans are nowhere close to embracing the radical left.

Veronique de Rugy | 11.19.2020 12:01 AM

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Joe Biden

11 Trillion Reasons To Fear Joe Biden's Presidency

The former vice president's vision of an all-powerful government goes far beyond massive spending and tax hikes.

Nick Gillespie | 10.27.2020 12:15 PM

gavinnewsom_1161x653 | Daniel Kim/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Electric cars

Newsom Attempts To Mandate Full Transition to Electric Cars by 2035

Maybe California will figure out how to keep the lights on by then.

Scott Shackford | 9.24.2020 2:40 PM

thumb | Lex Villena

Environmentalism

The World Is Doing Better Than Ever. Here's Why You Never Hear About It.

Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents progress and explains why it happens.

Nick Gillespie and Ronald Bailey | 9.14.2020 11:20 AM

FoundersDinner (2 of 43) | Ronald Bailey

Environmentalism

Ronald Bailey: The World Is Getting Cleaner, Richer, and Safer

Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents the immense, ongoing progress that politicians and media refuse to acknowledge.

Nick Gillespie | 9.9.2020 4:20 PM

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Joe Biden

Joe Biden's $2 Trillion Green New Deal Is Just a Worn-Out Democratic Jobs Program

The presidential candidate wraps old special-interest programs in green camouflage.

Nick Gillespie | 7.23.2020 4:20 PM

BidenClimate | Biden campaign

Joe Biden

Biden's New Green New Deal Is the Same as the Old Green New Deal

It's uncanny how solving climate change just happens to require the progressives' longstanding economic agenda.

Ronald Bailey | 7.16.2020 3:15 PM

Untitled-1 | James Arthur

Climate Change

Michael Shellenberger: Environmental Alarmism Is Wrong and Harmful

The Apocalypse Never author documents that things are getting greener and makes a case for nuclear power.

Nick Gillespie | 7.8.2020 5:01 PM

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Environmentalism

Think Globally, Shame Constantly: The Rise of Greta Thunberg Environmentalism

Her future—and that of the planet—hasn't been "stolen" and the best way forward is through serious policy discussion, not histrionics.

Nick Gillespie | 9.24.2019 12:15 PM

Really? | Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Donald Trump

Trump Tries On the Mantle of Environmental Leadership. Does He Deserve It?

"We're working hard, maybe harder than all previous administrations, maybe almost all of them."

Ronald Bailey | 7.11.2019 2:40 PM

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Nuclear Power

This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now

Michael Shellenberger believes the Green New Deal’s focus on wind and solar is a waste of time and money.

Zach Weissmueller | 5.22.2019 2:05 PM

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom

Green New Deal

The New Green Serfdom

The Green New Deal is a path to a more militarized and authoritarian society.

Matthew Harwood | 5.13.2019 11:10 AM

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Green New Deal

The Green New Deal Will Hit the Poor With Higher Energy Costs

"It's upside-down Robin Hood.”

John Stossel | 4.24.2019 12:00 AM

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Science

The Green New Deal Is Anti-Democratic

Ronald Bailey | 4.7.2019 6:00 AM

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Climate Change

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Wrong: There Is No Looming Climate Change 'Expiration Date'

No, our kids will not be doomed in 12 years if we don't adopt her Green New Deal.

Ronald Bailey | 4.5.2019 2:35 PM

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Green New Deal

Green New Deal Senate Vote

Political stunt or destructive socialist daydream?

Ronald Bailey | 3.27.2019 11:45 AM

Large image on homepages | Alex Edelman/CNP/AdMedia/Newscom

Green New Deal

Study: Green New Deal Could Cost More Than $90 Trillion

Whether its supporters care is another question.

Joe Setyon | 2.25.2019 3:05 PM

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Green New Deal

Watch Dianne Feinstein Lecture Increasingly Crabby Kids Demanding a Green New Deal NOW!

If our politics cannot be sensible, they might as well be enjoyable. This confrontation easily clears that hurdle.

Nick Gillespie | 2.23.2019 1:45 PM

Large image on homepages | Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS/Newscom

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Already Won. So Why Run Again?

The Vermont independent has yanked Democrats so far to the left that his competitors are becoming mini-mes.

Matt Welch | 2.21.2019 6:15 AM

Large image on homepages | Gary Reyes/TNS/Newscom

High-Speed Rail

California's Bullet Train Project Doesn't Deserve Your Moist-Eyed Love Letters

A corrupt boondoggle that broke the bank for subsidized middle-class trips would not have been the flagship for a greener America.

Scott Shackford | 2.14.2019 2:05 PM

Large image on homepages | Alex Edelman/SIPA/Newscom

Reasontv

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: A Bizarre Grab-Bag of Terrible Ideas

Q&A with economist Veronique de Rugy.

Peter Suderman, Mark McDaniel, and Todd Krainin | 2.14.2019 9:54 AM

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Green New Deal

The Co-Sponsor of the Green New Deal Thinks Mitch McConnell's Plan to Hold a Vote on It Is 'Sabotage' and a 'Republican Trick'

Ed Markey believes the time to vote on urgently necessary climate change legislation is...later.

Peter Suderman | 2.13.2019 12:13 PM

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Green New Deal

Green New WTF?: Podcast

Untethered from real-world constraints, progressive Democratic policy goes utopian.

Matt Welch and Mark McDaniel | 2.11.2019 4:55 PM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Zoning Makes the Green New Deal Impossible

A bad idea is made worse by its inability to grapple with local land use restrictions.

Christian Britschgi | 2.8.2019 5:20 PM

Large image on homepages | Alex Edelman/SIPA/Newscom

Green New Deal

Think the Green New Deal Is Crazy? Blame Intersectionality.

The left loves fringe causes, like providing welfare to people who are "unwilling to work."

Robby Soave | 2.8.2019 4:53 PM

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Green New Deal

Green New Deal—Same Old Progressive Policies

Using climate change to justify government-guaranteed jobs, health care, and housing.

Ronald Bailey | 2.8.2019 3:45 PM

Large image on homepages | Kristin Callahan/ACE Pictures/Newscom

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Aims to Eliminate Air Travel

Sorry, Hawaii.

Joe Setyon | 2.7.2019 5:10 PM

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Green New Deal

How Much Will the Green New Deal Cost?

Climate change is the excuse; radically remaking the American economy is the aim.

Ronald Bailey | 2.7.2019 11:10 AM

Large image on homepages | Ron Sachs/CNP / Polaris/Newscom

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Climate Change 'Our World War II'

"The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?"

Nick Gillespie | 1.22.2019 2:50 PM

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Green New Deal

Green New Deal Will Try Anything Except Nukes, Hydro, Markets…

Using climate change as an excuse to pursue other social and economic goals.

Ronald Bailey | 1.15.2019 4:55 PM

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Environmentalism

Will Uprisings Thwart Green Central Planners?

Ordinary people aren't willing to pay higher costs just to fulfill the grand visions of environmentalists.

Veronique de Rugy | 12.13.2018 12:01 AM

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Solar Power

California Mandates 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2045

The state's top-down approach to energy issues will only raise rates on consumers.

Christian Britschgi | 8.30.2018 9:15 AM

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