Buried in the Republican tax bill is an act of charity for oil and gas producers that further cushions them from the impact their products have on the world, @markgongloff says (via @opinion)

my latest for @zeteo_news . On Aug. 6, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a bigwig in Israel’s cybersecurity apparatus, was arrested in Las Vegas during an FBI-backed sting for allegedly trying to canoodle with a 15-year-old child. He promptly paid his $10,000 bail and jetted home to

.@SecretaryWright: "When you add wind and solar onto a grid, you don't remove the need for coal plants, nuclear plants, and natural gas plants. You just end up having to maintain two grids. Maintaining two grids is ALWAYS more expensive."

I see American left populist types praise Claudia Sheinbaum all the time but they never push their own people to embrace her all of the above energy approach — they should!

NEW: Progressives have a birth rate problem. For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids. By ceding the topic of family and children to the right, progressives risk ushering in a more conservative world.

While bad actors will try and stop us for their own self gain, the Trump Administrations will not back down from ensuring there is affordable, reliable and secure energy access for all Americans.