Bloomberg Meets the Press

Michael Bloomberg will appear on Meet the Press this Sunday, his spokesman confirmed.
This comes as Bloomberg and others head to Washington to ask the president for money to help rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.
Bloomberg will appear on the show with Ed Rendell and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

What Republican Rift?

The G.O.P. is at war with itself. Or so we're told.

Unaccustomed to their new minority status and unsure how to handle a Democratic president with enormous popularity and considerable legislative momentum, Republicans are dividing themselves into opposing camps, each convinced that a different formula will return them to glory.

This, at least, is Read More

What Republican Rift?

The G.O.P. is at war with itself. Or so we’re told.

Unaccustomed to their new minority status and unsure how to handle a Democratic president with enormous popularity and considerable legislative momentum, Republicans are dividing themselves into opposing camps, each convinced that a different formula will return them to glory.

This, at least, is the Read More

Building a Sustainable Auto

The power of the American Presidency to move the environmental agenda was never more apparent than during President Obama’s recent directive to EPA to reconsider California’s request to set tighter air emission and fuel efficiency standards. Under the Clean Air Act, California has long had the authority to exceed federal standards and typically it has Read More

Boxer Should Be Careful What She Wishes For

DENVER—Barbara Boxer just spoke to the convention, one of eight female Democratic senators (none of them named Hillary Clinton) to offer brief remarks. (This parade of women was introduced with a video message from Clinton.) Boxer spoke optimistically about the party’s prospects this fall, both in the presidential race and in Senate contests.

“When Read More

Sustainability, the Economy and the Presidential Race

The Presidential nominating conventions are now approaching, first the Democrats’ and then the Republicans’. The President hangs out at the Olympics, stomps his feet over the Russian invasion of Georgia and then makes another pass at gutting the Endangered Species Act by reducing the time and scientific analysis needed to assess the environmental impact of Read More