I think there's something very special about women’s sports. I would never advocate for getting rid of that. I would advocate for expanding the way that we think.
The dashed hopes of those times offer a distant mirror on America's current predicament. The "light at the end of the tunnel" turned out to be an oncoming train. A presidential candidate found his winning lane was to deepen divisions, not become a healing agent. The goal of politics became exclusively to hold power.
Twenty-two percent of all energy generated in the U.S. is used for lighting. Street lighting and commercial lighting are both tremendously inefficient, with about a quarter of their light uselessly going into the sky, reflecting off suspended dust and water droplets. This washes out the light from the stars.
Republicans have been chaotic rulers of the U.S. House of Representatives, but Biden's presence atop the ticket was a major hindrance to Democrats' prospects of flipping control.