By Paul Krugman
Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed regulations to curb emissions of ozone, which causes smog, not to mention asthma, heart disease and premature death. And you know what happened: Republicans went on the attack, … Read more »
Since the early 1990s, the consensus view in the climate science community has been that if the world is going to escape the most catastrophic consequences of climate change, it needs to keep the average global temperature from rising more … Read more »
By David Sirota, Salon
Just 36 percent of the electorate showed up to cast their ballots. Millennial apathy only tells half the story
On a warm October night toward the end of the 2014 campaign, almost every politician running for … Read more »
By Dave Clark, Agence France-Presse
A probe by a Congressional committee into the September 11, 2012 attack on a US compound in Benghazi debunked allegations that President Barack Obama’s administration fell down on the job.
Since the assault on the … Read more »
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company
We’ve been watching Congress since the mid-term elections and reading Zephyr Teachout’s terrific history book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United. That snuff box was a … Read more »
By Paul Krugman
The Tenement Museum, on the Lower East Side, is one of my favorite places in New York City. It’s a Civil War-vintage building that housed successive waves of immigrants, and a number of apartments have been restored … Read more »
By looking down, things are looking up.
Here’s a little known fact about climate change: According to NOAA, if we could magically cut all current CO2 emissions worldwide to zero today (a feat even Merlin couldn’t achieve) it would do … Read more »
By Bill McKibben, Salon
China and the U.S. came to long-overdue climate agreement this week. So why are we still talking about Keystone XL?
If you want to understand why the China-U.S. climate deal announced this week is going to … Read more »
A Blogger’s Note to RSN News:
“# politicfix 2014-11-16 11:44
Taunting remarks and yucking it up after the election has set this situation up. The economy is up, unemployment is up, the stock market is up, gas prices went down, … Read more »
By Paul Krugman
The great American Ebola freakout of 2014 seems to be over. The disease is still ravaging Africa, and as with any epidemic, there’s always a risk of a renewed outbreak. But there haven’t been any new U.S. … Read more »
