Joe Biden brought factories and jobs back with his climate program. Then Trump repealed it.
Ryan Cooper
Ryan Cooper is a senior editor at The American Prospect, and author of How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics. He was previously a national correspondent for The Week. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, and Current Affairs.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
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Posted inPolitics
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The most powerful newspaper in America doesn’t care about American democracy.
Posted inPolitics
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Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Is the Republican Party a Chinese Communist Conspiracy?
The Senate GOP just voted to destroy the economies of their own districts and hand 21st century industry to a foreign adversary.