| Jan 24, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyPresident Barack Obama’s second inauguration definitely had its high points: his uncharacteristically liberal speech, weather that broke 30 degrees, and a tour-de-force from inaugural poet Richard Blanco. This was my first barely-up-close-and-not-so-personal...
| Sep 24, 2012 | Environment / HealthOur weather keeps getting weirder. We’re seeing record-busting heat waves, droughts, thaws, and forest fires, freakish “derecho” storms, and spring striking weeks too early. Most of these trends are either caused or exacerbated by another, underlying...
| Jul 9, 2012 | Environment / HealthI was driving toward my home in the foothills of the Shenandoah mountains when the wind really started to worry me. It was blowing debris horizontally across Interstate 66 with gusts that were flying at over 80 miles an hour. Then lightning began forking all around....
| Feb 14, 2011 | Environment / HealthWhen corporate executives needed a political favor, they used to run to Congress. Now they can also run to the courthouse. Over the years, corporate chieftains and their political henchmen have steadily ensconced reliable laissez-faire ideologues in hundreds of...
| Feb 7, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyElections keep Our land afloat; But all’s not equal When we vote. You may believe that on Election Day all of officialdom momentarily unites in urging us to vote. Leaders–rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, business and labor–want us to do our...
