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Why You Should Fear Big Bad Cable
Twenty-five years ago this month, Sir Tim Berners-Lee introduced an open protocol for sharing information that gave everyday Internet users the power over what they created and whom they connected with online. His concept quickly evolved into the World Wide Web. One...
Exporting Extremism
In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have written anti-gay discrimination into state law in the name of religious freedom. In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni signed an even more extremist law that sentences LGBT people to life in prison and...
It’s Time for Maryland’s Factory Farms to Pay Their Fair Share
Big chicken-processing companies generate 1.5 billion pounds of fowl waste annually in Delmarva (the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia tri-state area), and it's choking the Chesapeake Bay. Each year, Marylanders pay a small tax that goes toward the Chesapeake Bay...
Take this Compromise with a Grain of Salt
The two cousins who run the private equity giant KKR took home an astounding total of $327 million in 2013, new regulatory filings reveal. Much of this lush windfall came via "carried interest," Wall Street-speak for the cut that private equity kingpins take on the...
A Sweet Victory
The Food and Drug Administration recently came out with a sweet surprise. Its proposed new nutrition label will finally give us a bit of key information we need to understand our food: the amount of added sugars. If you look at a nutrition label now, you will see how...
Ted Nugent Falls off His Rocker
Ted Nugent, the old rocker from the Seventies, is now just plain old. And off his rocker. A political novelty act for the far right and a front man for the National Rifle Association, Nugent regularly spews venomous, vulgar, race-laced, abusive hate speech about...
The War on Veterans
Do you remember Cory Remsburg? He's the Army Ranger who received a standing ovation from Congress during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address a few weeks ago. Applause is nice, especially from such influential people. It sure beats those cuts the...
Before and After a War
Obama’s Budget Asks What’s Valuable
Obama's new budget, is it DOA? Can tax breaks for the poor really see light of day? Well, Paul Ryan's budget will cut taxes too. Granted, not for the many...just for the few. A budget expresses what a nation finds valuable: A good wage in Harlem? Or a new yacht in...
Messing with Our Beer Supply
OK, climate change deniers. This has gone too far. You've gone from just being annoying know-nothings to now posing a serious threat to an essential good that embodies humankind's finest collaboration with nature: beer. It's one thing for the science denial cult to...
