Chris Fournier

This week’s Democratic presidential debates will feature 20 candidates, five moderators and a lot commercials. Potential voters might not be able to learn as much as they want to.

Jet aircraft contribute 2% of all greenhouse gases--raising challenging questions.  Is there a moral obligation to travel less? What are the alternatives to going by plane?

It was supposed to be infrastructure week for real this time.

It’s a special live Left, Right & Center recorded at UC Santa Barbara.

President Trump has invited Iran to “pick up the phone and call” him. He’s also threatened the “end” of that country. It’s the latest act  in a long international drama.

A deep-seated denial of the racist, colonial roots of gun rights in the U.S. underlies the left’s flawed approach to domestic arms control.

There were Trumpian moments, but it wasn’t Trump’s most turbulent trip to Europe.

President Trump on the National Climate Assessment: “I don’t believe it.” Now he’s ordered federal agencies to downplay evidence-based predictions.

This week, we moved a lot closer to a court challenge that could significantly reduce or eliminate constitutional protections for abortion rights.