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Blog by Plugin Solar US, published as part of their Behind the Bill series exploring how U.S. states are shaping plug-in solar policy. Del. Paul Krizek and Virginia climate advocate Jamie Bacon show how one constituent email about Utah’s balcony-solar law helped spark a coalition, companion bills, and a new pathway for renters and homeowners. […]

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At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. As higher education increasingly conforms to corporate logic, its most durable product becomes a student with a proven capacity for overwork.

Art critic, novelist, Marxist, lover, exile, storyteller: John Berger resisted every easy definition. His new biography embraces the contradictions he left behind.

The decline of the much-touted billionaires’ Giving Pledge.

As US foreign policy grows more belligerent than ever, Americans are getting less and less information about the rest of the world.

A modest proposal.

General Douglas MacArthur was determined that West Point graduates would uphold the most romantic definitions of honor. Instead his credo fostered a culture of duplicity and institutional subterfuge, leading to real-world military fiascos.

Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.

Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s national cinema was gutted, censored, and left for dead. Then Lula returned — and so did the movies.

For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to The Free Press, defending Israel takes priority over the facts.

The UAE’s expanding presence in Africa pairs developmental investment with a divisive and violent geopolitical agenda.

In an era of cheap drones and pricey interceptors, the US air warfare model doesn’t add up.

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt blamed Israel for America’s Middle Eastern fiascos. But from Iraq to Iran, Washington has had its own reasons for war in the Gulf.

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. But the capitalist internationalism they saw as permanent has now crashed and burned.

After the scandals of Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, FIFA hoped North America would offer a less political World Cup. Donald Trump’s return to power ensured exactly the opposite.

K-pop has reoriented the global music landscape — often at the expense of its stars.

Don’t let the baby boomers moderate the Beatles’ politics. They were undeniably men ofthe Left.

Natural gas is fading from California’s electricity mix more quickly than seemed possible just a few years ago. The state hit its peak for gas-fired electricity in 2014 and has fallen in eight of the 11 years since. The retreat is accelerating, with a 15 percent decrease in 2025 compared to 2024, and a 26 […]