John Copeland Nagle

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt listen to questions as he testifies before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 26, 2018.

Scott Pruitt and the problem of environmental distrust

May 31, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

Embattled Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt wants to prevent his agency from using "secret science" to justify environmental regulation. A worthy goal, his critics say, but they don't trust...

Visitors hike the Three Dune Challenge trail at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 2015.

Upgrading the Indiana Dunes to a national park is a horrible idea

May 31, 2019 at 9:18 p.m.

The House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill to upgrade the Indiana Dunes from a national lakeshore to a national park. It sounds like a nice idea. It’s not....

The last acts of the lame ducks

August 21, 2021 at 9:34 a.m.

The people have spoken. I'm not especially pleased with what they said, but they have decided whom they want to represent them in Congress. Now our representative democracy responds to...

TEACHING THEORIES

August 11, 2021 at 2:51 a.m.

Your Aug. 18 editorial criticizing the decision of the Kansas Board of Education regarding evolution has it exactly backward. The decision responded to science trying to misappropriate the prestige of...

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