By Nicole Mordant, Reuters
Large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed poses serious risks to salmon and native cultures in this pristine corner of southwest Alaska, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a report released on Wednesday.
The EPA … Read more »
By Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK
Obama is draping the banner of change over the NSA status quo. Bulk surveillance that caused such outrage will remain in place.
In response to political scandal and public outrage, official Washington repeatedly uses the … Read more »
By RICK LYMAN
In a strongly worded decision, a Pennsylvania state judge on Friday struck down Pennsylvania’s 2012 law requiring voters to produce a state-approved photo ID at the polls, setting up a potential Supreme Court confrontation that could have … Read more »
Exhibit A: Daily Kos diarist “dharmafarmer” writes on Jan. 11 about the chemical spill in West Virginia, the disaster that has left hundreds of thousands of people without fresh water.* It’s a hop, skip, and jump to link Freedom Industries, … Read more »
While more Americans support upholding ‘Roe v. Wade’ than ever, the Tea Party and the Christian right have teamed up to pass hundreds of restrictions eviscerating abortion rights in GOP-controlled state legislatures across the country
by JANET REITMAN
On the … Read more »
Reprinted from “It’s Not You”
The media loves to crow that smart, liberated women are hopeless in romance. Actually, the opposite is true
By SARA ECKEL
In 1970, an Australian university student scribbled A woman needs a man like a … Read more »
Suddenly it’s O.K., even mandatory, for politicians with national ambitions to talk about helping the poor. This is easy for Democrats, who can go back to being the party of F.D.R. and L.B.J. It’s much more difficult for Republicans, who … Read more »
By Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Almost a year ago, during my first banking committee hearing, I asked several federal regulators a simple question: When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank all the way to a … Read more »
By Lindsay Abrams, Salon
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seeds, foiling an attempt to challenge the company’s frequent lawsuits against farmers.
Leaving intact a federal appeals court decision, the justices threw out a lawsuit … Read more »
That “good” news you may have read last week about the Food and Drug Administration’s curbing antibiotics in animal feed may not be so good after all. In fact, it appears that the F.D.A. has once again refused to do … Read more »
