By CHARLES M. BLOW
The situation in Iraq is truly worrisome, as militants threaten to tear the country asunder and disrupt the fragile, short-lived period absent all-out war there.
We have strategic interests in preventing Iraq from unraveling, not least … Read more »
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
June 16, 2014
MIAMI — With the midterm elections only months away, efforts to carry out some of the country’s strictest photo ID requirements and shorten early voting in several politically pivotal states have been thrown into … Read more »
By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
President Obama on Tuesday will announce his intent to make a broad swath of the central Pacific Ocean off-limits to fishing, energy exploration and other activities, according to senior White House officials.
The proposal, … Read more »
OP-ED COLUMNIST
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Several times in recent weeks I’ve found myself in conversations with liberals who shake their heads sadly and express their disappointment with President Obama. Why? I suspect that they’re being influenced, often without realizing it, … Read more »
TEXARKANA, Tex. — On a hazy, hot evening here, Janice Marks ate a dinner of turkey and stuffing at a homeless shelter filled with plastic cots before crossing a few blocks to the Arkansas side of town to start her … Read more »
By Charles Pierce, Esquire.
Lost in all the noise — and all the towering bad taste — of the coverage of the Bowe Bergdahl story this week was the fact that the Senate began the long and laborious and (I … Read more »
OP-ED COLUMNIST
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Maybe it’s me, but the predictable right-wing cries of outrage over the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules on carbon seem oddly muted and unfocused. I mean, these are the people who managed to create national … Read more »
By Kathy Chen and Stian Reklev, Reuters
China said on Tuesday it will set an absolute cap on its CO2 emissions from 2016 just a day after the United States announced new targets for its power sector, signalling a potential … Read more »
OP-ED COLUMNIST
By PAUL KRUGMAN
A while back I published an article titled “The Rich, the Right, and the Facts,” in which I described politically motivated efforts to deny the obvious — the sharp rise in U.S. inequality, especially at … Read more »
By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Proposed regulations could cut carbon pollution by up to 25%
President still faces potential opposition from Republicans
Q&A: why the carbon proposal could make climate history
President Barack Obama will unveil a plan on Monday … Read more »
