Environment and Health
Flashback: Drilling for Oil Wealth on Capitol Hill
I always thought the best job in the world was being Dick Cheney's mea culpa coach. The pay wouldn't be much but, in terms of not having much to do, it ranks up there with being a Christmas shopper for Osama bin Laden. Now I have discovered an even better job. It's...
Santa’s Dreaming of a Green Christmas
Santa's changing some policies at the North Pole. You see, he's concerned about global warming. If the polar ice caps melt, his workshop will sink into the Arctic Ocean. He'd become a climate refugee. What's more, our changing climate is endangering our food supply....
Celebrating the Season without Worshipping Consumerism
The holiday traditions are starting already. Here's mine. My mom called me because she found a great deal on a paring knife at Williams Sonoma. Do I want it? I assured her that I'm getting along fine with the knives I have but thanked her for the thought. And I have...
Islands in the Storm
Shortly after the extent of the damage of storm known as either Super Typhoon Haiyan or Yolanda became clear, the United States got to work sending much needed aid to the Philippines. With winds up to 195 miles per hour, it left more than 5,200 people dead and four...
A Better Grip on Climate Change
Earth to climate change deniers: The vast majority of Americans are worried enough about global warming to want our government to help stop this scourge. This good news for people who believe science should drive our climate policy comes from a series of surveys...
A Typhoon Tax
Americans are generous by nature. About half of U.S. families contributed to earthquake relief in Haiti in 2010, and millions of us have already supported typhoon aid for the Philippines. But there’s a golden opportunity for our country to do much more. We can help...
These Rhinos Need Their Own Guns
Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter's nightmare?A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare-up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who'd headed down a slope into a...
Will Congress Blow This Chance to Propel Green Jobs?
Are you tired of the political brinksmanship, eleventh-hour deals, and avoidable financial crises that characterize business as usual in Congress? So is the wind energy industry. Once again, one of the few mechanisms in the tax code designed to reward clean-energy...
Health Care Hypocrisy
And now, Dr. Hightower offers this advice for improving your mental health: Don't fume about the GOP's lunatic effort to kill health care reform — just laugh at their farcical show. Take Sen. Ted Cruz's 21-hour blabathon, in which he said he would stop the Affordable...
The Affordable Care Act: Bad for the GOP’s Political Health
Whacking yourself on the head with a ball-peen hammer would be stupid. Doing it again and again? That's insane. Welcome to your House of Representatives, presently led by a pack of tea-partying Republicans. They loathe the Affordable Care Act so much that they...
