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...April 7, the Massachusetts General Court passed a resolution demanding a drastic reconfiguration of the nation’s current energy policy. The plan calls for replacing traditional electrical generation—which produces environmentally harmful byproducts such as carbon dioxide emissions—with a system that would rely only on 100 percent clean electricity. In light of the dangers that our planet faces in the immediate and distant future, the Mass. General Court’s decision is a wise choice that signifies a keen awareness of the importance of energy policy...
...perhaps the most interesting thing about the environmental resolution that the Mass. General Court passed last week is that it was the brainchild of a student organization—Massachusetts Power Shift (MAPS). To see students participating in legislation and enacting real change—particularly for the environment—is impressive given the dauntingly bureaucratic process it requires. And, even better, Harvard students played an important role in these proceedings. The Harvard College Environmental Action Committee was actively involved in the MAPS group that worked with legislative officials to make the April 7 resolution a reality...
...slaughter of a million lives and vowed, “Never again.” And now, 15 years later, how does the world respond to a genocide that has claimed the lives of 300,000 people and displaced more than 2.5 million in Darfur? While the International Criminal Court has indicted the president of Sudan, Omar El-Bashir, the Arab League has rushed to support him. This Arab reaction is shamefully self-interested and dangerously lays the ground open not for “never again” but instead for “once more...
...flyover state into a place named “the heartland” and emphasizes how strongly we believe in “family values,” which means they can count on us to be fanatically religious, vote Republican, and, naturally, hate gay people. Even after the court decision, journalists like USA Today’s Dan Gilgoff continued to portray Iowa as “a culturally conservative heartland state...
...history. As Pat Murphy, the speaker of the Iowa House, and Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal pointed out in a statement lauding the verdict, gay marriage is only the most recent issue on which Iowa has been ahead of the times. They note that our supreme court outlawed racially segregated schools in 1873, almost a century before Brown v. Board, and that Iowa was the first state in the Union to admit a woman to the practice of law, doing...