Environment and Health
Let’s Face It: The Coal Industry Is a Job Killer
When Donald Trump announced he was rolling back the Obama administration's signature climate rules this spring, he invited coal miners to share the limelight with him. He promised this would end the so-called "war on coal" and bring mining jobs back to coal country....
They Blinded Me With Science
Concerned About Climate Change? Change Where You Bank!
At the end of April, hundreds of thousands of people will take part in the People’s Climate March in DC and around the country. The march will send a clear message that the majority of Americans understand that climate change is all too real — and they'll continue to...
A Great Clucking Idea
If you live in Austin, Texas, the city will pay you to get chickens. That's right. Whereas in the past, cities often banned urban chickens, our nation has now crossed a threshold in which a city will pay residents to keep chickens. The program is an effort to reduce...
Obamacare Is Actually Working
Question: What do you get when you mix a barrel of fables, a sack of mendacity, and a gross of whoppers – topped with a thick layer of subterfuge? Answer: The fiasco that's been the Republican attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. "We're going to do something...
Give Your Old Stuff to Others — Not the Landfill
My neighbor moved out this week. I learned that when I found a moving truck blocking my car and I couldn't get out of the driveway. No matter — by the end of the day, the truck was gone. In its place, however, was a queen-sized pillow-top mattress, a wooden dresser,...
Why Did Trumpcare Fail?
Why? That's the big question the mass media is asking about the sudden failure of the Republican leaders' relentless push to demonize and kill Obamacare. After all, the GOP bragged that they now control the legislative game and would quickly knock Obama's trademark...
My Autistic Child Isn’t ‘Diseased’
Finding out that your child is autistic is usually presented as a disaster, a financial and emotional drain that needs a long period of grief to come to terms with. And with one in every 68 children — one for every three classes of primary school kids — receiving this...
Gutting Climate Protections Won’t Bring Back Coal Jobs
When Barack Obama announced the Clean Power Plan, Scientific American used his own words to criticize it for not going far enough. "There is such a thing as being too late when it comes to climate change," Obama said. "The science tells us we have to do more."...
Trumpcare Was for CEOs, Not Patients
It appears that House Speaker Paul Ryan's 123-page legislative plan for Trumpcare, the GOP's so-called "replacement" for Obamacare, is dead — for now, anyway. Republicans tried to rush it through, but not before the Congressional Budget Office discovered it was...
