By Robert Redford.
A proposed open-pit mine would endanger a pristine Alaskan fishery and destroy jobs. The EPA must prevent it.
Coursing through vast reaches of Alaskan tundra, glacial lakes and emerald forests, six major river systems converge along the … Read more »
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom – eliciting subsidies and tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation’s “competitiveness” – while sheltering their … Read more »
By Dr. James Hanson, The Age
Exploiting oil and gas trapped in tar sands and shale threatens to make climate change “unsolvable,” said James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who raised concerns about global warming in the 1980s.
Conventional reserves … Read more »
Every week, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich talks with contributor Eric Benson about the biggest stories in politics and culture. This week: The GOP finds a new Watergate, the Justice Department bullies the AP, and Bloomberg News gets caught … Read more »
By Bob Cesca – Huffington Post.
The Republican inquisition over the attacks against Americans in Benghazi has never really gone away, but it appears as though in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the House Oversight Committee’s Benghazi … Read more »
By Eugene Robinson.
WASHINGTON — In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse.
I join the nation in congratulating Bush on the opening of his presidential library in … Read more »
WASHINGTON — The other three living former American Presidents — Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton — are all scheduled to show up tomorrow (Thursday) at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist … Read more »
By Sy Mukherjee, ThinkProgress
Looks like Obamacare is more “on track” than “train wreck.”
In a striking illustration of the promise that the health law holds for consumers, two Oregon private insurers vying to sell coverage on the state’s Obamacare … Read more »
By Al Gore, Reader Supported News
Yesterday, for the first time in human history, concentrations of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant, hit 400 parts per million in our planet’s atmosphere. This number is a reminder that for the … Read more »
By Charles P. Pierce
Now it seems that ABC is determined to revive its role from the days of Whitewater in connection to Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! We discussed the other day how one ABC producer became a main conduit for … Read more »
