Brought to you by Koch

A sensible Republican legislator (there is such a thing!) was asked why Senate Republicans want to regulate wind and solar energy to death. After all, don’t these people despise government regulation? His answer – more accurately, his suspicion – was: “The Koch Brothers.” The Koch fortune relies heavily on extracting fossil fuels and fouling the…

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Rethinking Koch

Maybe the attack-Koch strategy is a good idea after all. I had questions, but I’m coming around.   Every story needs a villain. That lesson is as old as the Bible. (See: the Serpent, Garden of Eden.)   Just as Republicans here want to make William Barber of the NAACP the face of the Democratic…

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