Yearly Archives: 2021
What happened to the party of limited government?
The Republican Party now poses a clear and present threat even to the values it once espoused.
Oil companies are ploughing money into fossil-fueled plastics production at a record rate—new research
Around the world, around the clock, the plastics we use every day are produced at facilities on an almost incomprehensible scale that some suggest we now live in an era best labelled the plasticene.
Welcome to the American century
We are truly living out the end of the American Century in the world it created.
Part 2: The Dirty Dozen documents of Big Oil’s secret climate knowledge
The discussion continues with key documents, what they say, how they were found, and what this means for the fossil fuel industry.
The hidden side of fossil fuel investments: Private equity
Failing to hold private equity firms accountable exacerbates existing inequities.
Top cancerous air pollution sites in US revealed
The worst three are in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," five of the top 20 are in Texas, and predominantly Black areas experience double the cancer risk of white areas.
Progressives on Virginia loss: Corporate Democrats have only themselves to blame
The finger-pointing started days before the polls opened in Virginia, a state that has trended blue in recent years and that President Joe Biden won by 10 percentage points in 2020.
A Farruggio original: The Cabbie
He was a 'working stiff' and a man earning money seemed to enjoy his meal that much more.
The super-rich have taken almost all of it
The very richest Americans seem far removed from the notion of shared prosperity that could have made us a nation to be envied.
Does mundane, Democratic small ball make sense against war-like Trumpian nullification?
Good intentions fall short against foes indifferent to morality, law, science, disease, suffering, even the compassion that Christianity honors.