| Apr 5, 2010 | Environment / HealthCongress has debated health-care reform for generations. Our much-debated and historic legislation is finally ready to go to work, hopefully delivering expanded coverage, making health care more affordable, and holding insurance companies accountable. But we still...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthPower makers Rarely care, If their work Pollutes our air. Everyone knows by now that coal is evil and we should stop generating electricity with it. We know about oil, too. We wisely don’t want to drill for it in our own precious soil or waters because of...
| | Environment / Health|Food / FarmingWhen First Lady Michelle Obama decided to launch the “Let’s Move” campaign to fight childhood obesity, she brought much-needed attention to a crisis millions of children face. It’s a special concern for children of color, because new research...
| Mar 29, 2010 | Environment / Health|Peace / SecurityIn the aftermath of the foiled “underwear bomber” attack on Christmas Day, there’s a major push to install whole-body X-ray scanning machines at airport screening areas. It’s being led by former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, now a paid consultant for a...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthDid you ever notice how it works? Sell your cousin a joint for some harmless fun and you both end up in jail. But manufacture cigarettes that kill tens of thousands of people and not only do you earn billions of dollars, you avoid all risk of hard time. Lawsuits may...
| Mar 26, 2010 | Environment / Health|Food / FarmingMatt Holland with True Majority and USAction writes, “That morsel at the end of your fork isn’t just food. It’s the product of fossil fuels, industrialized agriculture and chemical herbicides–all of which are destroying our environment and...
