LAWRENCE WITTNER – Most Americans support proposals to raise taxes on the rich. According to a March 2025 Pew Research Center poll, large majorities of Americans surveyed favored increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations. In January 2026, an Economist/YouGov poll reported that 80 percent of American respondents viewed wealth inequality as a problem, 80 percent said the rich had too much political power, and 78 percent said taxes on billionaires were too low.
Climate Change Goes to Washington – How It Happened
CHELSEA HENDERSON – Decades of political battles, shifting public opinion, and evolving advocacy strategies shaped the path of U.S. climate policy from early scientific warnings to major federal investment.
Why People Demonstrate
ANDREW MOSS – Sustained civic engagement offers, as Anna Sach perceives it, “not only a tool for political change, it is a deeply human experience that fulfills emotional and social needs. It creates community, restores a sense of agency, and offers hope in the face of uncertainty.”
How Democrats could hand the California Governor’s race to the Republicans–lessons from Washington State
PAUL ROGAT LOEB – In California, there’s a serious risk that the Democratic candidates will split the vote sufficiently to leave only the two Republicans on the November ballot. Something similar happened in Washington State a few years ago.
Essay about nuclear energy versus renewables omits crucial fundamentals
AMORY B. LOVINS – In her March 13 Bulletin article (“The war on Iran will speed the transition away from fossil fuels and toward nuclear energy, creating strategic challenges for the United States”), the distinguished Rachel Bronson’s equivocal but emphatic ode to nuclear power disappoints by omitting fundamentals.
Safety meltdown: Trump’s weakening of nuclear reactor regulations sparks opposition
CHAUNCEY K. ROBINSON – Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online in 2026.