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  How policymakers  can tackle power shutoffs, utility greed and the climate emergency Denialism is seeping into legislation and undermining public health The bank would also invest in private and public companies in the infrastructure sectors, taking warrants or options. As these companies prospered, so would the bank, paying off investors and paying down the growing debt. TARP returned billions to the treasury.   Importantly, the bank would have an oversight and coordination role that is lacking. Can this work to reverse America’s discontent? Yes. The question is whether it will be tried. Harlan Ullman is senior adviser at the Atlantic Council and the prime author of “shock and awe.” His latest  book is “The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD: How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large.” Follow him on Twitter

I am very deeply, deeply concerned about a ruling

  I am very deeply, deeply concerned about a ruling like this," said. Allison Kephart, the chief legal and compliance officer with WEAVE Sacramento. The ruling allows those with restraining orders to have a gun. "There is a strong correlation between having access to a firearm by those who do harm and the increased likelihood of severe injury or lethality for those who are victims of domestic violence," Kephart said. According to the Giffords Center For Gun Violence, domestic violence victims are five times more likely to be killed when their abuser has access to a gun. It's a stat Kephart fears will now grow. "At the end of the day, we'll put survivors in jeopardy and we are guaranteeing that more people will die," she said. The appeals court found the federal gun control law could not stand under the Bruen test, which requires gun laws to be comparative to the regulations in place at the time of the constitution's framing in the late 1780s. While ...