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This is where Macklin and other counterterrorism experts warn the United States could be headed: The harsher and more challenging the environment gets and the more destructive and expensive the impacts become, the more climate change may be seized as the dominion of the right.

Contrary to popular belief, the most destructive force in most Southern California wildfires isn’t the flames — it’s the embers.

In just a few terrifying hours, the Mountain Fire became the most destructive blaze in Southern California in years.

Importantly, each one of those prior foundings was preceded by periods of crisis and conflict, many of which were much more violent and destructive than the one we’ve been in—so far; hopefully it stays that way.

The Academy of Royal Colleges has also called for an independent review into the use of associates because of an "increasingly acrimonious and destructive debate".