| Jan 2, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAsk anyone. I pride myself on being seldom surprised, shocked almost never. 2011, however, called my cool into question. I was nothing but shockingly surprised all year. Take Barack Obama, particularly since the 2010 Congressional election or, as I like to call it,...
| Nov 29, 2011 | Environment / HealthOn Sunday night, as I met with colleagues from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America to prepare for the UN climate summit, the unseasonably blustery evening went from windy to rainy to a huge downpour. It was a perfect illustration of why we were in Durban, South...
| Nov 28, 2011 | Environment / HealthI’m not out to Grinch anybody’s holiday cheer, but we’ve got a serious situation here. A tsunami of scientific studies is showing that global warming isn’t only real, it’s happening faster than we thought and our window of opportunity to...
| Jul 18, 2011 | Environment / HealthI took a cross-country road trip in late June that became a race to outrun the triple-digit heat waves that have literally buckled highways between the Midwest and the East Coast. The record-breaking scorcher was an apt send-off. As I weaved my way across the United...
