It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is currently the target of a recall effort spearheaded by national public employee unions. If his opponents get enough signatures by Jan. 17, Wisconsin will hold a gubernatorial election this summer. The outcome is crucial to the future of the country.

Why Kyoto is unlikely to succeed in mitigating climate change and an alternative treaty design that is likely to work better.

Public employee unions and tea party supporters have been gathering signatures to trigger recall elections of, respectively, Republican and Democratic state senators in what amounts to a referendum on Republican Governor Scott Walker's policies.

This event will discuss who should set the rules for geoengineering, What should those rules permit or forbid, and how should they be enforced.

The United States is likely to make some important decisions on climate change policy in the near future. At this conference, distinguished experts offer new approaches for thinking through the climate change problem.

For more than twenty years, policymakers have struggled to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to stop global climate change. Congress is likely to enact federal climate legislation in 2009, but many scientists fear that emissions reductions may not occur quickly enough to prevent significant warming. Some scientists...

Global climate change policy has reached a stalemate. Europe, Japan, and other major countries have signed on to the Kyoto Protocol. However, the United States has refused to join, in part because China and other developing countries are not subject to the emissions limitations under Kyoto. As the call...