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The O'Shaughnessy falls into a different category, and not just because it's so big. It's also quite useful: the cool, clear water it impounds flows to some 2.4 million people and 75,000 businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the power generated by that water...
But what if the benefits provided by such dams could be replaced? Would that make their removal politically palatable? In a thick report on Hetch Hetchy released last fall, Environmental Defense argued that there are alternative ways to provide both the water and the power currently supplied by the O...
The imposter is my niece, Morgan. We share a first and last name, as well as some unsettling physical similarities. And our exchange took place in what was—for 18 glorious years—my bedroom. The room and its inhabitant, however, are currently unrecognizable. As I stood...
Ever since the court in 2003 struck down a Texas statute that criminalized same-sex sodomy, social conservatives have echoed Justice Antonin Scalia's lament that the court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda." But in the same decision, the court stressed that a right to...
Clarence Thomas: Appointed by George Bush in 1991, Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall in the closest confirmation vote in over a century (52-48). Since then, Thomas has earned a reputation as a conservative, in part for his very narrow reading of individual rights under the Constitution. He opposes affirmative action...