A proposed constitutional amendment pending before the state supreme court puts direct democracy in the dock again.
Florida
Posted inBooks
Clinton’s Backwash
To make sense of Ron DeSantis, who trolls a liberal elite that has not faced its own failures, a former teammate reflects on their time playing baseball at Yale in the 1990s.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Beachfront Roulette
After Hurricane Ian, Southwest Florida takes its chances on the climate crisis and builds back right up to the water’s edge.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Against Private Enterprise
In their view, business should be forced to be transphobic and ignore climate change.
Posted inPolitics
Will DeSantis’s Culture War Backfire?
Increasing cancellations of convention plans and business investments are starting to damage Florida’s economy.
Posted inTAP
The Climate Home Insurance Apocalypse Is Nigh
Today on TAP: Farmers Insurance Group and AIG are halting home policy sales in Florida. They weren’t the first and they won’t be the last.
Posted inPolitics
How to Cover a Presidential Campaign
Hollowing out government capacity and leveraging executive power to harm political enemies is at the heart of the Trump-DeSantis project. Will we hear about that?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Lose-Lose DeSantis-Disney Fight
As Disney cancels investments in Florida, the proxy culture war masks a battle between a governor pretending to slay big business and a mega-corporation wanting to entrench its power.
