Samuel Proctor
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- Sep 23, 2026
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Response to Shahbaz: Relax, we have time to build climate solutions (opens the original)
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Chill out, y’all. We’re going to be fine. The U.S. is leading the way in clean energy investment, flood mitigation and preventative infrastructure. Yet last week, Opinions Editor Daniyal Shahbaz wrote that, “We are vastly unprepared for the climate disasters to come.” As a country, we all need to take a collective deep breath. Climate doomerism is not healthy, helpful or honest. To be clear: this isn’t climate denial. Earth’s average temperature has risen about 1.3°C since 1850 and sea levels ha
Proctor: America has the wrong kind of polarization (opens the original)
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America doesn’t have too much polarization. We have the wrong kind. We are constantly told that our country is more divided than ever. And, in a sense, we are—self-described “moderates” continue to disappear while party numbers and influence grow. This appears, at the surface level, to be a sort of ideological polarization. A separation of our political system into distinct belief systems. There is, however, a difference between symbolic ideology, wearing the Republican or Democrat jersey, and o
Flock Around and Find Out (opens the original)
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In 2017, a new product hit the market: the now-infamous Flock camera. Within months, the Atlanta-based tech firm had grown from equipping safety-conscious Homeowners Associations with their Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) devices to engineering a nationwide surveillance system. Now worth $8.3 billion according to Fortune, this tech giant currently operates over 120,000 automated license plate readers and cameras across 49 states, per Flock Safety. Flock Safety reports partnerships wit
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