Traffic flows on westbound U.S. 50 in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, April 13, 2022. California wants electric vehicle sales to triple in the next four years to 35% of all new car purchases. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

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Dec 5, 2023

Electric vehicles are caught up in the culture wars, but the climate doesn’t care how you vote

Electric vehicles have become a significant marker of political identity, and Donald Trump’s narrative aims to exploit the pronounced red-blue divide in attitudes toward EVs, writes Frederick Hewett. But the shift to electric vehicles is inevitable — and important.

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Nov 22, 2023

I was in 4th grade when John F. Kennedy was shot. I remember it like it was yesterday

It's been 60 years since JFK was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Deborah Sosin was a precocious fourth grader in '63. She remembers where she was when she learned the news, and how she watched the story unfold on television in the days just after the assassination.

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