A Rulebook Unwritten, and a Court Fight Ahead: EPA to Repeal Obama-era Policy

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A certain Washington drama is back onstage, with a familiar prop in the spotlight: a scientific determination from 2009 that became, in time, a legal foundation. The Trump Administration is preparing to repeal that Obama-era determination — the EPA’s “endangerment finding” — and U.S. officials say it could become the most far-reaching rollback of U.S. climate policy to date. The endangerment finding concluded that six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. It was, in effect, the prerequisite that enabled the agency to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from new motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. And now

A Mayor’s Race, and a Manifesto: Socialists Set Their Sights on Los Angeles

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Los Angeles is already a hard place to govern. Now a blueprint for changing it — radically — has landed in the middle of a mayor’s race. Socialist-aligned activists’ “Program for Los Angeles” is drawing fresh scrutiny as City Councilmember Nithya Raman launches a bid for mayor. Critics point to a Democratic Socialists of America document that calls for sweeping changes to policing, jails, energy use, and drug policy. The document lays it out bluntly: disarm the police, end fossil fuel use, close jails, raise taxes, de-criminalize drugs. It opposes the 2028 Olympics. It calls for repurposing golf courses for

Operation SafeDRIVE and the Quiet Return of an Old Idea: Standards Aren’t Optional

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There’s a certain American phrase we’ve stopped saying out loud: standards. Not preferences. Not vibes. Standards. And when you drop them — quietly, bureaucratically, with a shrug — you don’t get a gentler society. You get chaos with paperwork. You get tragedies no one wants to own. That’s why this week’s news from federal transportation officials is so welcome. In a three-day, 26-state enforcement surge — Operation SafeDRIVE — inspectors conducted more than 8,200 checks and took 704 drivers out of service. They pulled 1,231 vehicles off the road as unfit. They made 56 arrests. And they cited roughly 500

A Justice at the Grammys and a Senator’s Unease: Blackburn Wants KBJ Probe

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There is a certain gravity that comes with the Supreme Court. It is not written down anywhere, but Americans feel it instinctively. The justices wear black robes, not costumes. They speak in opinions, not punchlines. Which is why Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s letter to Chief Justice John Roberts landed this week with a thud. Blackburn urged Roberts to open an investigation into Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson after Jackson attended the Grammy Awards on Sunday — an event that mixed celebrity, politics, and sharp anti-ICE rhetoric. Jackson’s presence was not accidental. She had been nominated for a Grammy for narrating the audiobook

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