| Jan 18, 2010 | Environment / HealthHumans are warming the climate. That’s a settled fact you’d expect to see in coverage of global warming, even in news stories about scientists who don’t believe in the global-warming science at all. Yet, some reporters still can’t bring...
| | Economy / BusinessOne can see At just a glance; That Haiti never Had a chance. Our hearts go out to the Haitians. Earthquakes and hurricanes. Disaster after disaster. There’s no letup. We’ll send cash, food, meds, trucks, pumps, clothes, shovels, tarps, bulldozers, cement,...
| | Economy / BusinessIn Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty declares: “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.” Well, get ready to tumble down the semantic rabbit-hole again, for giant corporations are trying to co-opt the meaning of one of...
| | Rights / DemocracyThere are three subjects in our political universe that we aren’t allowed to discuss rationally: Israel, Cuba, and race. For example, try making the case that Palestinians are, no less than Jews, history’s victims. And that they just may have rights, and...
| Jan 11, 2010 | Cartoon|Peace / Security|Rights / Democracy