| Jan 25, 2010 | Environment / HealthWhen you strip off the rhetoric and the partisan politics and remove the fear factor, the health-care legislation working its way to President Barack Obama’s desk is, for most Americans, the healthiest medicine ever offered. Sure, there are missing pieces and probably...
| Jan 22, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyThis article was distributed by Minuteman Media and first appeared in the Torrington Register Citizen on 1/19/10. On the campaign trail, Barack Obama electrified Americans with his bold call to transform despair into hope, and voters elected him in a landslide....
| Jan 18, 2010 | Peace / SecurityAmericans got a crash course on Yemen for Christmas. That’s because we’ve wanted to know more about the little-known, dirt-poor country in southwestern Arabia where the “underwear bomber” who tried to blow up a plane—bound for Detroit...
| | Economy / BusinessWhat may be the dumbest corporate merger of all time—the $165 billion deal that saw AOL gobble up Time Warner a decade ago—ended just before the holidays, when AOL formally spun off into a totally separate company. That AOL-Time Warner merger had been a disaster for...
| | 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...
