Big Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – In a surprise move, the eight Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday blocked a floor vote on President Obama’s nominee, Gina...
View ArticleLet’s Count the Ways President Obama is Not as Bad as Bush
By Stephen D. Foster Jr. – President Obama and President Bush should never be compared to one another. Ever. These men couldn’t be more different when it comes to policy, personality, and...
View ArticleJ.D. Salinger’s Secret Life to be Exposed in New Documentary
By Paul Harris – The Guardian – Documentary promising revelations about reclusive Catcher in the Rye author has been snapped up by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein – J.D. Salinger, the elusive author of...
View ArticleEngulfed State Park: Enviro Presto Chango
By David Underhill – The dermatologist moonlighting as Alabama’s governor, Robert Bentley, has shown that neither of these pursuits is his true talent. He is actually a master prestidigitator. Only an...
View ArticleCognitive Assonance: Congratulations! You’re Being Watched
By Randall Amster – With revelations (yet again) that we are all essentially being watched virtually all the time, we might expect a popular backlash against such a massive and unprecedented intrusion...
View ArticleThe Truth About the So-Called IRS ‘Scandal’
By Pablo Eisenberg – When the House Ways and Means Committee holds yet another hearing Thursday to examine the IRS’s revelations that it gave some applications for tax-exempt status extra scrutiny, it...
View ArticleE.O. Wilson: Many Great Scientist Are Not Good at Math
Here’s a secret: Discoveries emerge from ideas, not number-crunching – By E.O. Wilson - For many young people who aspire to be scientists, the great bugbear is mathematics. Without advanced math, how...
View ArticleA Path to the Future on Immigration Policy
Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – In 1849, an eleven-year-old boy moved with his family to the United States. More than four decades later, that boy co-founded the Sierra Club and served as its...
View ArticleRemembering Workers on Memorial Day
Workers’ Memorial Day – By Al Henley – Alabama workers are encouraged to join the AFL-CIO in recognizing Workers’ Memorial Day on Sunday, On April 28. Each year on Workers Memorial Day, working people...
View ArticleThe Sun Is Rising in the West on Alternative Energy
Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – When Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a few weeks ago that his city would be off coal power entirely by 2025, it was both exciting and, as Al Gore put...
View ArticleBig Oil Uses the Republican Party to Subvert American Democracy
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – In a surprise move, the eight Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday blocked a floor vote on President Obama’s nominee, Gina...
View ArticleIt’s Not Too Late for Alabama
Editorial – By Darrell Turner – Citizens of Alabama, it is time to stand up and be counted. For too long we have been seen as stupid, redneck, backward and just plain simple. Serious thought and...
View ArticleWhere the Political Action Is: The States, Not Washington
By Scott Arceneaux – The congressional map is shrinking. Charlie Cook, of the Cook Political Report, recently declared that there are fewer competitive seats in the 2014 race to control Congress than...
View ArticleAlabama Needs a Comprehensive Water Management Plan
Guest Column – By Mitch Reid – The Roman orator Quintilian once said, “Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.” Last week’s decision by the state of Florida to...
View ArticleWag the Dog Politics in Alabama
By Ron Crumpton – In government things are seldom what they seem, but why would your elected leaders use spurious propaganda in order to illicit an emotional response from the electorate? Every year,...
View ArticleYes, Virginia, There Are Climate Solutions
Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – This year, Virginians will elect a new governor, one of only two gubernatorial elections this year, the other being in New Jersey. At the moment, Terry McAuliffe is...
View ArticleA Government Shutdown Game Without Winners
Coming Clean – By Michael Brune – As the shutdown of the federal government drags on, Americans are angry. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is watching with nervous disbelief as we edge toward...
View ArticleThe 2014 Legislative Session in Alabama Should Not Be Wasted
By Craig Ford – In two months the state legislature will reconvene for the final time before the next election cycle, and state leaders have announced that this session will move faster than normal....
View ArticleBronner Says Governor Bentley’s Opt Out on Medicaid Costs Alabama’s Economy...
By David G. Bronner – The thought of Alabamians opposing Medicaid expansion makes my head hurt. How can our business community do nothing over the next 30 days and allow $375 million to disappear? How...
View ArticleA Letter to the People of Brazil and the World
By Edward Snowden – Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government’s National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist’s camera. I shared with the world...
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