A group of Black Democrats is pressing to elevate a more targeted voting rights bill named…
Month: April 2021
Four steps this Earth Day to avert environmental catastrophe | Simon Lewis
With political pressure and these smart policy goals, a new sense of the common good could…
Joe Biden’s billions won’t stop Bolsonaro destroying the Amazon rainforest | Marina Silva and Rubens Ricupero
Funds offered to persuade Brazil’s ruinous government to stop deforestation are meant well, but badly misjudged…
Growing pains: Zimbabwe’s female tobacco farmers struggle to compete
At the mercy of international markets and denied access to mainstream finance, the enterprising growers face…
Weatherwatch: the great snowstorm that engulfed Britain in April 1849
How newspapers – and Queen Victoria – described the unusually wintry conditions The cold and snow…
Concerns over climate finance for poorer nations as White House summit begins
As world leaders meet to discuss the climate crisis, campaigners say wealthier countries need to do…
Country diary: what’s under the stone? A hungry beetle for starters
Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: A fleeting, iridescent green blur is evidence of a burrowing ground beetle Cutting…
Dems’ ambitions narrow as political reality sets in
Sen. Angus King is still undecided on whether to support D.C. statehood, an important goal for…
Clyburn facing potential $5,000 metal detector fine
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) talks to reporters in Washington, D.C. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images…
Senate GOP preserves earmark ban, adds strict debt ceiling posture
Neither the earmark ban nor the debt ceiling language is binding — and that means there’s…