Scalia’s Ghost Can’t Save Oil, Gas, and Coal

Scalia’s Ghost Can’t Save Oil, Gas, and Coal

| Feb 17, 2016 | Environment / HealthBleak news for fossil fuels is piling up higher than an icy Washington snowbank in the capital’s most precipitation-challenged state. Peabody Energy, the nation’s biggest coal company, is limping toward bankruptcy after its shares sank 99 percent over the past...
No Candidate is Perfect

No Candidate is Perfect

| | Rights / DemocracyLet me tell you something people don’t often say when arguing about presidential candidates on Facebook: No candidate is perfect. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth choosing to support one. For example, you can support Bernie Sanders because you believe...
The GOP Whiffs Again on Health Care

The GOP Whiffs Again on Health Care

| Aug 28, 2015 | Environment / HealthIn advice to baseball rookies, Hall of Fame star Ted Williams said: “If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.” This should be taken to heart by bush-league congressional leader John Boehner. The Republican speaker of the House keeps thinking he...
A Supreme Threat to American Democracy

A Supreme Threat to American Democracy

| Jul 22, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyHere’s a little quiz you won’t find on the LSATs: Which Supreme Court justice called a recent ruling by the court a “threat to American democracy”? And what decision was it? A. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote it of the Citizens United decision,...