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EMERGENCY DECLARATION (2021) Movie Trailer: A Passenger Plane is Banned from Landing after a Viral Terrorist Threat is Detected

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...
Mongabay

Do forest declarations work? How do the Glasgow and New York declarations compare?

On November 2, 2021 at the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference (#COP26), 127 countries signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use which commits them to eliminate forest loss by ...
Mongabay

Behind grand declarations at COP26, a long track record of failure

On Nov. 2, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson released the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use, with more than 100 countries promising to “halt and reverse forest loss” by 2030. The ...
Reason

What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...
Penn Live

Pa. Legislature ends Gov. Wolf’s pandemic disaster emergency declaration

Using the powers voters awarded them last month, the state Legislature’s Republican majorities brought a sudden end Thursday to Gov. Tom Wolf’s pandemic disaster declarations. Resolutions to formally ...
The Diplomat

What Would an End-of-War Declaration for the Korean Peninsula Actually Mean?

A man holds up a banner to demand the peace on the Korean peninsula near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon South Korean President Moon Jae ...