When adding up the accomplishments of the Obama administration, the increase in auto fuel efficiency standards, also known by the acronym CAFE (Corporate Average
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Lakoff: The American dream beats the nightmare
$60 million. That’s the mountain of cash plunked down on TV ad buys by Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity as of
Republican convention’s “We Built It” hypocrisy
The Republican Party is adopting “We Built It” as a convention theme — a catch-phrase built on the Fox News-fueled distortion of the President’s
First get scared, then get steamed
Last week Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman wrote a guest commentary for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch titled “Let’s Talk About Guns.” Fed up with
Bill Mckibben: “Global warming’s terrifying new math”
If you want to know where we stand with global warming, read Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking new piece in Rolling Stone, “Global Warming’s Terryifying New
JFK assassination or 9-11: Which was worse?
It’s a somewhat esoteric question to ask what was worse, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 or the four commercial jet
Wealth doesn’t trickle down when it’s parked in off shore tax havens
A new study by the Tax Justice Network “The Price of Offshore Revisited” shines a light on the size of the global offshore economy—the amount of
This is beyond politics?
How many times have you heard a so-called statesman or stateswoman say, “this is beyond politics.” The implication is that the issue is of
Rollin’ on the [federally flood-controlled] river
If you want to travel by boat, or ship grain by barge on the Mississippi River, you’re going to encounter locks and dams. On
Use your words: Healthcare mandate is not a tax hike
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have lost their main argument against it. So, naturally,