Perhaps this is the summer that finally renders climate change real. Flooding and soaring temperatures across the nation have made global warming indisputable. The problem, as always, is how to reach political consensus on an action plan. Republicans want to plant a “trillion” trees; Democrats want to limit carbon emissions. If the nation’s response to […]

Edmund Burke, a famous British representative to Parliament in the 1700s, found himself criticized in a debate for voting on the unpopular side of an issue. He responded that it is the “happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. […]