Al Gore: “Captain Climate Change reporting for duty.”

Horrified and appalled

We laughed together, fought like hell together for what we wanted our country to be. Prayed together. Thought for a season we had won together, but, well, you know that part of the story. The stakes are high. The pressures are great.

Lowering these standards now, when so many families are already struggling with rising transportation costs, will only make things harder for them.

The very idea that we have made enough — this is the Supreme Court’s apparent view — that we’ve made enough progress on the racial divide in America that now it’s time not only to stop any kind of remedial efforts, but also to try to…