| Aug 15, 2018 | Economy / BusinessIt was once the biggest toy company in the world. But Toys ‘R’ Us turned off the lights in its remaining stores for the last time this summer, becoming the most recent casualty of Wall Street greed. As Toys ‘R’ Us first began its descent into bankruptcy and...
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| Aug 14, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedOn Thursday, July 12th, a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic proved it was on the right side of history. The Republic of Ireland passed a bill to divest its $370 million worth of investments in around 150 fossil fuel companies within five years. Should the bill...
| | Environment / HealthI can still remember the first time I saw tracks left behind by seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It was the mid-1990s and I had been guiding a group of people on a float trip across the coastal plain of the refuge towards the Arctic Ocean. After...
| Aug 13, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyMonopolies aren’t merely un-American — they’re virulently anti-American. They suppress our fundamental values of fairness and opportunity for all. Our people have instinctively rebelled at monopoly avarice — from the Boston Tea Party to the populist movement,...