| Feb 18, 2015 | Environment / HealthFlush with their victory in the midterm elections, the Republicans in Congress promised fresh leadership. Instead, both the Senate and House GOP majorities made the speedy and symbolic approval of Keystone XL pipeline bills one of their first priorities. They did this...
| | Economy / BusinessSomeday soon, will all our jobs involve keeping extraordinarily rich people entertained? These days, that prospect doesn’t seem all that far-fetched. “The rich,” as journalist Chanelle Tourish notes, “seem to be willing to pay almost any price for...
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen an angry neighbor murdered three Muslim students in North Carolina, my Facebook feed lit up. Tragic, I thought, and I scrolled on. Then another post caught my eye. A Muslim friend cried out that the triple murder was a hate crime — and fumed that the news was...
| | Rights / DemocracyReady or not, the race is on — for president, I mean. Yes, Election Day is still nearly two years away, but the candidates are already on the loose. And they’re as goosey as ever. So far, the goosiest has been Mitt Romney. The GOP’s 2012 loser was asked...
| Feb 17, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyThe people of Chicago are grappling with a big question that people in nearly every urban place face: Can anyone really govern such a sprawling, brawling city? Reclaim Chicago — an upstart populist coalition that has become a major force in the city — says the answer...
