It’s been nearly a year since New York passed the Build Public Renewables Act via its annual budget‚ a rare attempt from the Empire State’s Democratic supermajority to make good on state climate goals first enshrined into law in 2019. The measure—pushed for by a coalition of climate justice and community groups called Public Power NY‚ helmed by the Democratic Socialists of America and several legislators they helped elect—mandates that the New York Power Authority‚ a state-...

A meeting to advance Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest border security bill abruptly ended on Wednesday night without a vote on whether the measure will hit the House floor. &;quot;Sorry‚ not sorry‚ for opposing a cr---y rule that is a show vote / cover vote for funding Ukraine instead of border security‚&;quot; Rep. Chip Roy‚ R-Texas‚ wrote on X after the meeting imploded. He’s one of three Republican foreign aid hawks on the House Rules Committee‚ which is the final barrier before a piece of...

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University were arrested Thursday afternoon and an on-campus tent encampment was removed after the school's president gave the New York Police Department the green light to clear the protesters. Columbia President Nemat &;quot;Minouche&;quot; Shafik announced in a letter to the Columbia community Thursday that she has authorized the New York Police Department to clear demonstrators from campus‚ writing‚ &;quot;This morning‚ I had to make a decision that I hoped...

House Democrats hinted Thursday that they were committed to passing a foreign aid supplemental package even if it meant helping Republican leaders get past usually party-line procedural hurdles — and potentially helping a GOP speaker keep his gavel. Speaker Mike Johnson‚ R-La.‚ is moving to set up Saturday votes on three bills that would send aid to Ukraine‚ Israel and the Indo-Pacific. The measures would then be combined with a fourth bill comprising a hodgepodge of...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is officially wealthier than Elon Musk as Tesla’s rapidly dropping stock tanks Musk’s net worth. Zuckerberg’s net worth has grown by more than $47 billion in 2024 to hit $175 billion as of Wednesday‚ according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index. Musk‚ on the other hand‚ has watched his value drop by more than $55 billion to a marginally less $174 billion. The gap between the two men will likely widen on Thursday‚ as Tesla stock hits a new 52-week low and...

I’ve never liked NPR. Throughout its long and venerable half-century run‚ the public radio network has served as a seamless delivery system for lifestyle smugness. When my mother would reflexively flip it on during long car rides in my adolescence‚ I’d greet its confident dispatches from the East Coast citadels of cultural consensus in the same manner I did all parent-approved meditations on civic life: as an elite monopoly’s hostile declaration of war on my attention span. Everything about its...