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Pesticides are part of life in the California's Salinas Valley, “America's Salad Bowl.” But a growing body of research suggests their use is linked to various health problems.

We are just entering the era when high-tech companies own, control and actively participate in mainstream media. Is that a good thing?

John Wesley Powell and FDR warned about the California and Colorado Basin droughts and proposed ecological solutions that Congress ignored. We are beginning to reap the whirlwind.

In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.

Militarized police, sophisticated surveillance, and normal citizens with little say in what goes on. The US has all the trappings of an all-powerful police state.

Poetry by David Krieger on the similarities between the start of World War I and the situation in Ukraine

This American Hustle allows politicians, the media, and the public to wash their collective hands of actually doing anything except demanding that the lazy poor step up to the …

In the state of California it costs roughly seven times more to house one prisoner for a year than it does to send just one child to a college …

Mass power outages are becoming more frequent and they're a sign of this nation's aging electrical infrastructure, which is stuck in the 19th century.

US media go into overdrive over Russia/Ukraine. And a big anti-Keystone XL rally at the White House hardly makes the news.