The New York Times reported on Thursday that Senate Republicans applied pressure to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) in September, successfully persuading it to withdraw a report finding that lowering marginal tax rates for the wealthiest Americans had no … Read more »
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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
President Obama and Mitt Romney seemed determined not to discuss climate change in this campaign. So thanks to Hurricane Sandy for forcing the issue: Isn’t it time to talk not only about weather, but also about … Read more »
… By Patricia Mazzei and Marc Caputo
From Miami Haitians to a Harvard student from Broward, voting early in South Florida — be it by mail or in person — is proving troublesome.
Some voters have yet to receive absentee ballots … Read more »
By Bill McKibben, Guardian UK
Such is Big Energy’s hold on DC, neither Obama nor Romney talk about climate change. But Americans are joining the dots
Here’s a sentence I wish I hadn’t written – it rolled out of my … Read more »
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., EcoWatch
American democracy is under assault.
In one super-PAC alone, Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have assembled $200 million from big polluters and Wall Street moguls to buy the 2012 election.
Two … Read more »
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
Over the weekend, Romney debuted an ad in Ohio showing cars being crushed as a narrator says Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight … Read more »
By Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated Press
Unemployment rates fell in nearly all large U.S. cities in September from August, a sign that recent jobs gains have been widespread.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that rates declined in 355 of the … Read more »
By Mark Schone, ABC News
The nation’s oldest nuclear plant declared an alert and a second plant just 40 miles from New York City was forced to shut down power as five different nuke plants in Hurricane Sandy’s path experienced … Read more »
