“Big Beautiful Bill” slashes incentives for wind, solar, and electric vehicles while boosting fossil fuel subsidies. An environmental scholar explains the costs, including a study that Americans could end up paying $280 more per year for household energy by 2035: #climatechange

The Conversation

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy

The new federal law favors energy technologies that are already profitable and increase global warming over cleaner approaches that could use the i...

#Socialmedia played a key role in shaping how Philadelphia’s sanitation strike, which ended this morning, unfolded. The union used Instagram and other platforms to share their side of the story, while many residents voiced support or sympathy for their cause.

The Conversation

How Philadelphia’s sanitation strike differed from past labor disputes in the city

An expert on Philadelphia’s municipal workers union talks about how social media helped the workers on strike to get their message out.

A death penalty scholar explores how the church’s anti-death penalty teaching has helped provide both a moral foundation and political respectability for those working to end capital punishment:

The Conversation

How the Catholic Church helped change the conversation about capital punishment in the United States

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.