You know, if you’re CNN, you could at least try to get it right. Go to CNN.com’s Politics page and scroll down a little. In the right column there’s a box that […]
Our electric grid
Look around you at all the things you use that need electricity to operate. Your lights, coffee maker, radio, television, and computer. Your cell phone may have a battery, but it’s useless […]
The Paris Review Vonnegut Interviews
Kurt Vonnegut’s dead, in case you hadn’t heard…. So it goes. Vonnegut, the author of counter culture classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions, books which were considered required […]
The Net Neutrality Fight, One Year Later
By Martin Bosworth Today marked the first anniversary of the launch of the Save The Internet coalition, a massive multi-group effort that was brought together to support the cause of net neutrality, […]
Money, speech, and corporate personhood
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard the latest challenge to the McCain-Feingold Act, the act that set stringent limits on the ability of unions and corporations to air ads that specifically mention a […]
Blood in the dust: Border Patrol agent guns down immigrant…
by Amaury Nora On March 26, Ramiro Gamez Acosta was fatally shot in the chest by a Border Patrol agent with a M-4 carbine. Acosta of Mexicali was hit once in the […]
Condi’s way-back machine
At first I was tempted to take Condoleezza Rice’s “no thanks” to a Congressional subpoena as yet another example of executive branch arrogance. But then I realized that’s she’s actually very busy […]
Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
It is astonishing the lengths that humanitarian and development organisations will go to avoid talking about business or to businesses. International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director-General Juan Somavia speaking at the XIth African […]
Food contamination investigation expands: how trustworthy is the fox guarding the henhouse?
UPDATE: Now the FDA is investigating whether melamine may have gotten into … wait for it … baby food. It started out as a pet food contamination crisis – dozens of dog […]
Security failures at the White House
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card a letter requesting that Mr. Card testify before Rep. […]
