| Dozens of wildfires in western Canada and the United States. Massive floods in Germany, India and China. Heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and southeast Europe. Those are just some of the extreme weather events around the world this month alone. The signs are clear, columnist Michele Norris argues: "Mother Nature has had it with her brood. If you can't see that, you haven't been paying attention." "The defining struggle of our time, and our future," Norris argues, "will be the tension between Mother Nature and human nature. So, more of us need to think differently about who and what we are dealing with here." Polls suggest that even skeptical Americans are coming around to government action, "but they are not nearly enough of a course correction to reverse the damage we have already done. Government can't do this alone. Individuals are going to have to make fundamental changes." Though Mother Nature seems fed up with humanity, she concludes, "the irony is that women in general and mothers in particular are uniquely positioned to lead the on-the-ground battle to deal with the growing climate crisis."  (Ellen Weinstein for The Washington Post) She won't forgive us this time. By Michele L. Norris ● Read more » | | | | We are already divided. This could ruin us. By Kathleen Parker ● Read more » | | | From Veg-O-Matic to Pocket Fisherman, Ron Popeil sold us stuff we never thought of needing. By David Von Drehle ● Read more » | | | | The more inconvenient we make life for the unvaccinated the better our own lives will be. More important, the fewer who will needlessly die. By Ruth Marcus ● Read more » | | | | Today's progressives recoil from the great principle of colorblindness, espoused 125 years ago by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. By George F. Will ● Read more » | | | | Hard-hit D.C. neighborhoods would welcome more officers, but the problem facing the city runs deeper. By Colbert I. King ● Read more » | | | Read and listen to some of the House minority leader's mystifying remarks. By Dana Milbank ● Read more » | | | | A polemic filled with glorious sentences and a hard-edged message is one thing. But are the facts straight? By Erik Wemple ● Read more » | | | |
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