Politics

For more than a decade, solar energy has been framed as a partisan dividing line in American politics. Environmental advocates championed it. Fossil fuel loyalists dismissed it. Clean energy policy became shorthand for ideological identity. That narrative is shifting. In a development that would have seemed improbable just a few years ago, solar power is

In late October 2025, as Hurricane Melissa tore through the Atlantic as a Category 5 monster, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) hurricane hunters continued their life-saving missions—without pay. The flights, which gather crucial storm data used by forecasters to protect life and property, went on despite a federal government shutdown that left these