Yearly Archives: 2021
More US residents than ever before understand climate crisis is real and dangerous
There is a growing awareness that the extreme weather events of recent years are caused by the climate crisis, with an all-time high of 70 percent of people believing that global warming is impacting U.S. weather right now.
Our new art ‘appreciation,’ billionaire-style
Fine art has never been more financially lucrative — or less central to our culture.
Progressives slam GOP’s ‘shameful’ attempt to add another $25 billion to Pentagon budget
"It's time to fix our broken budget priorities, and start putting human needs over Pentagon greed."
How to make the holidays happier for the Postal Service
Now it’s time for Congress to deliver by passing the Postal Reform Act and urging USPS leaders to focus on innovations to better serve all Americans for generations to come.
Cheap wind and solar should prompt ‘rethink’ on role of CCS, paper argues
“Now that renewable electricity is so cheap, this should cause us to seriously rethink the role of CCS.”
The scary rise of private intelligence companies
In almost every aspect of life, things that used to be done by governments are being outsourced to the private sector with often predictably bad results.
Newsflash: Freedom First MAGA Theme Park on tap – plus insurgency training center
Freedom First will be about the U.S. as not just a “shining beacon on the hill” but the only beacon on the only real hill.
City of Aurora agrees to pay $15M settlement after police killed innocent man
“Ms. McClain raised Elijah as a single mother and his death has left an enormous void in her life.”
China’s governmental policies have helped save the nearly extinct Amur tigers
“There is still a long way to go to build a viable future for tigers in northeast China, but the situation looks good.”
Fossil fuel companies pay $192 million to extract fossil fuels from the Gulf of...
“It’s basically a giveaway to industry of millions of acres of the Gulf of Mexico so they can lock in production for years, at a time when we need to be shifting away from fossil fuel development.”