The world has never looked better for the Big Five oil companies. This morning, Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest oil company, announced its “second-quarter profit rose 14 percent, to $11.68 billion, the highest-ever profit by an American company. Exxon broke … Read more »
Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On July 3, news reports said Senator John McCain, worried that he might lose the election before it truly started, opened his doors to disciples of Karl Rove from the 2004 campaign and the … Read more »
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act (EPA) into law, making it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform equal work. At the time, women earned 59 cents to every … Read more »
Yesterday, the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and Inspector General (IG) released the findings of their joint investigation into “allegations of politicized hiring by Monica Goodling and other staff in the Office of the Attorney General.” The report … Read more »
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Barack Obama is a United States senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his party’s candidate for president of the United States… Read more »
IT almost seems like a gag worthy of “Borat”: A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners. But to dismiss Barack Obama’s magical mystery tour through old Europe and … Read more »
In an interview on Tuesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) asserted that the 2007 troop surge in Iraq “began the Anbar awakening,” the process by which Sunni tribal leaders allied with U.S. force and turned against al Qaeda in Iraq. McCain … Read more »
A few weeks back, I got a call from someone in the office of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders wanted to tell me about an effort his office had recently made to solicit information about his constituents’ economic problems.
Today, Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens will testify on “Energy Security” before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. A lifelong oilman, Pickens is in the process of building the world’s largest wind farm in Texas, “a … Read more »
Whether Obama or McCain, the next president will inherit an environmental crisis like none before him. This is due in no small measure to the Bush administration’s outright assault on environmental law but also, more fundamentally, to a large flock … Read more »
