This November, Massachusetts voters will once again vote in a referendum on “right to repair”, known this year as ballot Question 1. In 2012, the state passed the earlier referendum, giving independent auto repair shops equal access to vehicle computer information as the manufacturing companies that made the vehicle. The law is on the ballot again […]
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Climate Changes: California’s Emissions Waiver Revoked
The Trump administration is certainly no stranger to environmental policy rollbacks, but the recent September 19th decision to revoke California’s auto emissions regulation waiver amounts to a politically-hypocritical decision. This environmentally-regressive decree arrives as the most recent executive decision in a line of drastically altering or outright cancelling countless Obama and Clinton-era regulations, from policies […]
Electoral Breakthrough or Electoral Persistence? Forecasting AfD’s Future in the German Parliament
The Western world breathed a sigh of relief after the triumph of the young independent centrist Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen, leader of the right-wing National Front, in the French presidential election. His victory was hailed as a sign that the emerging tidal wave of populism that had culminated in the Brexit Vote and […]