| May 3, 2017 | Economy / BusinessThe New York Times recently ran a front-page story about 700 United Technologies Corp. workers who are seeing their jobs shipped off to Mexico. Along with their UTC Carrier counterparts in Indianapolis — who are losing 550 of their jobs to Mexico — this shift leaves...
| Apr 26, 2017 | Environment / HealthWhen 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...
| Mar 29, 2017 | Environment / HealthWhen 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...
| Dec 21, 2016 | Economy / BusinessA little over 80 years ago, NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois wrote “Black Reconstruction in America,” a groundbreaking essay that looked at the racial politics of the post-Civil War years. The major failure of those years, Du Bois insisted, was that poor...
| Dec 7, 2016 | Economy / BusinessOn the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised again and again to “fix the economy.” And now that he’s won, he’s busy padding his cabinet with Wall Street rogues and off-the-chart conservatives from the fringes. If you read their resumes,...
