By Maureen Nandini Mitra, Earth Island Journal
Sporting a motley mix of rain gear, some 700 people trickled into a 7-Eleven parking lot on the south end of town by noon. Among the crowd were most of the key figures … Read more »
By Al Jazeera America
Rules will take effect once four other states, including one that borders Connecticut, pass their own legislation.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has signed legislation requiring that genetically modified foods be labeled, but the law will … Read more »
John Nichols
Most members of Congress were pleased with themselves Thursday.
They agreed to agree—crossing lines of partisanship and ideology—on an austerity budget that, as Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio has noted, “won’t create jobs, get the economy back on track, … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The pundit consensus seems to be that Republicans lost in the just-concluded budget deal. Overall spending will be a bit higher than the level mandated by the sequester, the straitjacket imposed back in 2011. Meanwhile, Democrats avoided … Read more »
Far from accept that the powerful implicitly deserve their social position, true leaders prize the general welfare
By ANDREW BURSTEIN AND NANCY ISENBERG
What is America thinking? professional pollsters ask, day by day, week by week. The assumption is that … Read more »
The Appalling Stance of Rand Paul
By CHARLES M. BLOW
I don’t put much past politicians. I stay prepared for the worst. But occasionally someone says something so insensitive that it catches me flat-footed.
Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, … Read more »
By GAIL COLLINS
Let’s hear it for women in high places.
This week in Detroit, Mary Barra took over General Motors. In Washington, Senator Patty Murray made headlines when she worked out a deal with Representative Paul Ryan to keep … Read more »
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Six years have passed since the United States economy entered the Great Recession, four and a half since it officially began to recover, but long-term unemployment remains disastrously high. And Republicans have a theory about why this … Read more »
By Ezra Klein, The Washington Post
The furor over “if you like your plan, you can keep it” touches on a deep fear in American life: That your health-care insurance can be taken from you. That fear is so powerful … Read more »
Researchers at Southern Methodist University have linked a string of 2009 and 2010 earthquakes in Texas to the injection of fracking wastewater into the ground, according to a new study.
The researchers examined the group of more than 50 earthquakes … Read more »
