By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Democratic candidate for president

Global expansion of plastic production, especially with single-use plastics, has created a crisis for human health and the environment. President Biden has failed to confront the problem. He has focused on false environmental solutions that waste billions of taxpayer dollars, as plastic pollution rapidly gets worse. 

By Max Burns, Democratic strategist

For all of his reputation-destroying efforts to placate the insatiable demagogues in the Freedom Caucus, McCarthy finds himself exactly where he started in January: fighting to control his own fate. The Freedom Caucus may make good on its frequent threats to hold a vote that ousts McCarthy from the speakership. They might not. With Comer, Jordan and Gaetz clearly in control of House business, such a formality hardly matters anymore.

By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College

Meadows contended the conduct that was the subject of the Georgia indictment was “authorized by federal law or the Constitution” and that he did no “more than what was necessary and proper” to effectuate his federal duty. Judge Jones found both of those contentions wanting.

By Dov S. Zakheim, former deputy undersecretary of Defense

Neither Narendra Modi nor his fellow summiteers explicitly stated that the proposed economic corridor is meant to compete with China’s flagging, but still important, Belt and Road Initiative. But Modi took a not-very-subtle swipe at the massive Chinese project, which he has criticized virtually since its inception, stating that Beijing employed the Initiative as a vehicle for “debt trap diplomacy” in order to establish hegemony over resource-rich or strategically important states.