Last week I wrote about how the truly important stories, like Trump’s assault on democracy, are easy to miss because they play out on a scale longer than the daily or weekly news cycle. To see them, you have to assemble the trees of stories that get coverage into the forest of the larger story.
That’s been especially true of Trump’s anti-environment policies, especially policies that will make climate change worse. News reports may tell you that this wind project was canceled or that EV subsidy was rolled back. But you need a larger perspective to see the forest: Trump is doing everything he can to raise CO2 emissions and heat the planet.
Why? I don’t know. Maybe just to please his fossil-fuel-industry donors, but his motive seems to run deeper than that. In any case, we need to perceive the What even if we can’t identify the Why. That’s what this week’s featured post “Policies to Make the Planet Hotter” tries to do. It should be out around 10 or 11 EDT.
The weekly summary will cover developments like the redistricting battles, the raid on John Bolton’s house, court rulings both pro- and anti-Trump, Gaza officially being declared in famine, the continuing failure of the Ukraine peace negotiations, and a few other things. That should be out between noon and 1.
The Weekly Sift 
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My guess is the planet warming is geared towards a Evangelical Christian belief.
Dear Doug,
I’ve subscribed to WS for several years and look forward each week to your exploration of current events and your perspectives. Thank you for doing this.
I volunteer as a teacher for immigrants aspiring to become citizens, helping them prepare for the naturalization interview and exam. It is hard enough to try to teach how the government is supposed to function while current administration violates the Constitution each day. But now, the USCIS has come up with a challenging new potential barrier: a revised determination of “good moral character.”
Jacks
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