Congress: Rescue the Clean Water Act

The Clean Water Act protected the nation’s waters for decades, from the Great Lakes and Mississippi River, to small headwater streams and associated wetlands. Yet Congress and the Supreme Court have allowed the act to falter for the past nine years....

Warning: Shopping May Prove Deadly to Miners

  Anderson Cooper is talking to coal-mining families and politicians in West Virginia again. Ever since that explosion ripped through an underground mine in Montcoal, it seems people all across America are discussing the dangers of mining. If you watched the news...

Senate Emissions

The much-debated new Senate climate bill is finally ready to be unveiled on April 26. Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are set to announce the broad long-range goals going beyond “cap and trade” (a scheme Janet...

Getting Sick Can Be Darned Risky

“Doctor Error”Makes me blink,Much more commonThan you think. We all know who the real bad guys are in the health biz. They’re the insurance companies, the drug companies, and the lawmakers who serve them. Those are the easy ones. After them...

Rushing to Universal Coverage

Last year, before Rush Limbaugh pledged to emigrate to the jewel of Central America, I lived and worked In Costa Rica for six months. I quickly learned that the “Caja” is the government health-care plan most Costa Ricans use. I asked my boss one day in my...

Limbaugh Loves Universal Health Coverage

Keep talking, Rush–we love ya man! Rush Limbaugh, that is–the radio rattlebrain who led the right-wing’s air attack on Barack Obama’s health-care reform campaign. Spewing venom, spittle, and ignorance, Limbaugh used his microphone like a cattle...