by Daniel Brouse June 4, 2025 For years, the Republican Party wages a systematic campaign to undermine science and dismantle the foundations of public education. This effort is most prominently led by Donald Trump, whose presidency marks a dramatic escalation in anti-scientific rhetoric and policy. Trump’s denial of climate science is blatant and persistent. In […]
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The War on Science and Education: How Conspiracy Politics Are Undermining America’s Future
Unseen Borders: How Climate Change, Wildfires, and Saharan Dust Are Choking U.S. Skies
by Daniel Brouse June 3, 2025 Climate change is rapidly transforming the quality of the air we breathe—and its effects are neither local nor contained. As global temperatures rise, so too do the intensity and frequency of wildfires, droughts, and dust storms, with far-reaching consequences that extend across continents and oceans. Air pollution has become […]
Trump’s Steel Tariff Déjà Vu: Doubling Down on Economic Damage
by Daniel Brouse June 1, 2025 On May 30, 2025, Donald Trump announced that he would raise tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%. The announcement took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—ironically, at the headquarters of U.S. Steel, a company now under foreign ownership after being acquired by Japan-based Nippon Steel. Despite Trump’s […]
Air Quality Warnings Stretch from Midwest to East Coast as Canadian Wildfires Trigger Mass Evacuations
FLIN FLON, Manitoba – May 31, 2025 — Massive wildfires sweeping across Canada’s prairie province of Manitoba have forced the evacuation of thousands, with the city of Flin Flon nearly emptied as dangerous fire conditions persist. The smoke from these wildfires has drifted far beyond Canada’s borders, triggering widespread air quality alerts across the U.S. […]
Federal Court Rebukes Trump’s Tariff Plan as an “Unprecedented” Executive Overreach
by Daniel Brouse May 29, 2025 In a landmark decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade has struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping 2025 tariffs, ruling that he unilaterally overstepped his authority by imposing blanket tariffs on all imported goods under a disputed claim of national security. The court called the […]
The Lingering Toll: How Long-COVID Continues to Reshape American Lives
by Daniel Brouse May 27, 2025 Five Years Later, COVID’s Chronic Shadow Persists Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, millions of Americans continue to battle lingering and often debilitating symptoms that have upended their lives. Among the most distressing and widespread of these are cognitive impairments — memory loss, mental fatigue, and difficulty concentrating […]
Climate Risk: The Sixth ‘C’ Transforming Credit and Mortgage Markets
The First Street Foundation’s report, “Climate, the Sixth ‘C’ of Credit,” introduces climate risk as a critical factor in credit assessments, alongside the traditional five Cs: character, capacity, capital, conditions, and collateral. This addition reflects the growing impact of climate-related events on mortgage markets and financial stability. Key Findings 1. Climate Risk as a Credit […]
When AI Attacks Itself: The Strange New World of Automated Copyright Warfare
by Daniel Brouse May 25, 2025 In our last R&D and A&R deep dive, “AI, Copyrights, and the Music Industry: A Glimpse into the Future of Intellectual Property,” we explored the growing legal and ethical complexities facing artists who use artificial intelligence in their creative workflows. But as complicated as things were then, the latest […]
Trump’s War on Climate Science: Shuttering NASA’s GISS and Silencing the Truth
by Daniel Brouse May 24, 2025 For nearly 60 years, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has been one of the world’s leading climate research centers. Tucked atop a Columbia University building in Manhattan since 1966, it played a pivotal role in the early modeling of climate change, helped interpret Earth-observing satellite data, and […]
Market Volatility Intensifies as Bond Market Sends Clear Warning
by Daniel Brouse May 21, 2025 As anticipated, the stock market is experiencing extreme volatility. This is precisely why I recommended dramatically reducing exposure to equities. The emotional and financial toll of riding this rollercoaster isn’t just unsettling—it’s unsustainable over the long run. Historically, chasing equity rallies in an unstable environment is a losing strategy. […]