Power
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World
An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars
Several new studies document the current court’s distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices’ willingness to use procedural shortcuts to achieve it.
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World
Ukrainians Focus on Resilience a Day After Major Russian Strikes
The mayor of Kyiv said that water was back on and that the city’s subway service had resumed. President Volodymyr Zelensky urged businesses to help set up more “invincibility centers” for the public.
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Business
Betting on Fusion Energy Shows Our Children We Care About Them
On Dec. 5, 192 lasers at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California fired a synchronized shot at a golden cylinder about the size of a jelly bean. With exquisite precision, the capsule focused the laser ...
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World
Here Is What Is Really Strangling the Energy Transition
For generations, tobacco was the king of crops in the region known as the Carolina Sandhills, the best way to coax cash out of the sandy soil. But the long decline of smoking in America idled many tobacco fields, and now farmers are eyeing a new crop ...
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World
What Comes After a World’s First in Fusion Research
As soon as Kim Budil, the director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said on Tuesday that cheap, abundant electricity from nuclear fusion is still “probably decades” away, some people lost interest in the news that her lab had achieved a ...
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Politics
Major Fusion Energy Breakthrough to Be Announced by Scientists
Researchers working with lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are expected to say they made a major advance that could lead to future energy sources.
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World
Unapologetic Black Power in the South
I’m a strong advocate of Black reverse migration — Black people returning to Southern states from cities in the North and West in order to concentrate political power. This reverse migration was already happening before my advocacy, and it continues ...
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World
Ukraine Faces More Outages and Strikes Russian-Controlled Melitopol
The attack on Melitopol signals the importance of longer-range weapons in Ukraine’s campaign to recapture land in the south.
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World
This Case Should Never Have Made It to the Supreme Court
“The most important case for American democracy” in the nation’s history — that’s how the former appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig described Moore v. Harper, an extraordinary lawsuit that the Supreme Court considered in oral arguments Wednesday ...
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World
The Supreme Court Is Turning Into a Court of First Resort
Last week, the Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari “before judgment” in Biden v. Nebraska, which will determine the legality of the president’s student loan debt relief program. What this means is that the court will hear this case on the ...