Tag: Intel

Even in Georgia, it was hard not to notice the Virginia gubernatorial race this week. As Georgia’s chief elections official, I focus on ensuring that my state’s voters continue to have secure, fair, and accessible elections and implementing common-sense election integrity reforms like ID requirements for all voters. But with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe… Continue reading The Danger of the McAuliffe-Abrams Stolen Election Claims

The past two years have witnessed increasingly vocal calls for rapid decarbonization of the global economy through a clean energy transition. A growing list of multibillion-dollar climate disasters in the United States and overseas have underscored vulnerability to the climate and the potential risk of leaving climate change unchecked. Congress is considering the United States’… Continue reading Achieving Decarbonization and Energy Equity Through Reconciliation

Systemic racial bias affects Americans of color throughout their lifetimes—in education, employment, housing, and the criminal justice system. But many Americans remain skeptical about bias as a causal factor in the disparities between Black and white Americans. RAND senior behavioral scientist James Anderson, and Rachel Perera and Heather Gomez-Bendaña, both assistant policy researchers at RAND… Continue reading The Compounding Effects of Racism: Q&A with James Anderson, Rachel Perera, and Heather Gomez-Bendaña

Forty years ago, Russia used a major military exercise in part to scare Poland’s communist leaders into cracking down on protesters, many associated with the independent trade union Solidarity. A similar Russian exercise now could be aimed in part at pressuring Belarus. If so, the West could respond in several ways. On September 10, Russia… Continue reading Moscow Hesitated in Poland—Will It in Belarus?

When U.S. President Joe Biden went to Cornwallis, England, to meet with the world leaders of the G7, he wanted to impress upon everyone that Trump’s reign was over. “America is Back!” was the big, bold statement Biden’s team projected throughout the meeting. Months later, as the U.S. scrambled to evacuate military and civilian personnel… Continue reading Back to the 1970s | RealClearWorld

Hurricane Ida’s landfall in Louisiana August 29 left at least 62 dead, more than one million without power, and hundreds needing rescue—horrifying measures of devastation, to be sure, as they played across our screens—yet it’s easy for onlookers across the country to forget this is a too-common sight. Louisiana and its neighbors have been hammered… Continue reading Hurricane Ida Is Part of a Cycle of Disasters—Mitigating Their Impact Means Building Back Better

Second of two parts Should 2024 develop into a four-way race between a Republican, a Democrat, Andrew Yang or another candidate from his Forward Party, and an anti-Trump conservative, presidential politics will enter volatile, if not quite uncharted, territory. Leaving aside 2016, serious four-way contests (in which two third parties received at least 2% of… Continue reading Can Third Parties Make a Difference in 2024?

Call it a “wokelash.” Ordinary Americans are fed up with corporations’ woke politics on issues unrelated to their businesses. A recent Rasmussen poll finds that two-thirds of Americans think companies should stay out of politics. Now, new legislation sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio will help people hold companies accountable for their political virtue signaling. The Mind Your Own Business… Continue reading Rubio Bill Would Hold Woke Corporations Accountable