| Jan 22, 2014 | Environment / Health“There’s a folksy saying my grandma taught me: ‘If it smells like licorice and tastes like licorice, it must be licorice.’ Now it has a corollary: ‘Or it could also be a 4-methylcyclohexane methanol spill into your water supply, so grab...
| Jan 15, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyThis piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Three judges in D.C. just killed Net Neutrality. This could be the end of the Internet as we know it. But it doesn’t have to be. The big news: A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications...
| Jan 8, 2014 | Economy / BusinessFrom the White House to the Vatican, everyone these days seems to be talking about income inequality. But our politics hasn’t kept up. Concrete proposals that could actually narrow the gap between the rich and the rest of us haven’t yet moved onto our...
| Dec 18, 2013 | Environment / HealthNow the Koch brothers are coming after my solar panels. I had solar panels installed on the roof of our Washington, D.C. home this year. My household took advantage of a generous tax incentive from the District government and a creative leasing deal offered by the...
| Dec 4, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyOld habits die hard. Take the War on Drugs. Please. Yes, its momentum has sagged a bit now, what with the Pew Research Center finding that a majority of Americans believe marijuana should be legal. But don’t hold your breath waiting for new national laws....
