Even if Republicans take the Senate this year, gaining control of both houses of Congress, they won’t gain much in conventional terms: They’re already able to block legislation, and they still won’t be able to pass anything over the president’s … Read more »
By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Never before in our history has the U.S Senate been as unproductive as the U.S. Senate post-2008. Even the staunchly obstructionist Republicans during FDR’s tenure got more done than our current Senate. Most Americans, … Read more »
By Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything
Recently, people have been telling me that capitalists are investing lots of money in renewable energy, or that some companies have decided to reduce their environmental impact out of self-interest.
Thanks for the info, … Read more »
The use of vital human antibiotics in livestock is on the rise, the FDA reports
Remember how the federal government decided to finally take on the major threat that antibiotic resistance poses to human health, yet somehow failed to address … Read more »
By Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
While many women in Texas were sitting down to dinner, a federal appeals court in Texas drastically reduced their access to reproductive health. In the process, the Court practically begged the Supreme Court to take the … Read more »
By Gail Collins, NY Times
Let¹s consider the walrus crisis.
They¹re piling up in Alaska. About 35,000 walruses have formed what looks to
be a humongous brown ball along the northern coast. A mass of critters,
some weighing 4,000 pounds, … Read more »
By Sandra Fish, Colorado Public Radio
Monsanto is donating $4.7 million to the campaign to oppose GMO labeling in Colorado.
Monday was the latest deadline for candidates and committees to report campaign contributions and expenditure to the Secretary of State’s … Read more »
By Heather Saul, The Independent UK
An estimated 35,000 pacific walrus have been spotted ashore on a beach in north-west Alaska.
Unlike seals, the mammals cannot swim indefinitely and are now coming ashore in record numbers as they struggle to … Read more »
By Jules Witcover
WASHINGTON — In the wake of President Obama’s surprising comment to reporters that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to deal with the surging terrorist threat of the Islamic State threat in Syria and Iraq, Senate Intelligence … Read more »
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
One of the sad and curious consequences of the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut a couple of years back was the fact that, rather than being chastened by the savagery and encouraged by it to … Read more »
