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At Year’s End, a Tale of Two Cities
We probably should have stayed in New Orleans. At the end of a brief Christmas holiday there, last week's blizzard was edging up the east coast and we checked …
Watch Out John – Nancy’s Still on the Job
As Nancy Pelosi hands off the Speaker’s gavel to John Boehner today, she also hands him a tough act to follow. Despite insistent attempts to malign her during her …
Under New Mismanagement
Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy
The cost of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert …
Panel: BP Well Blowout Revealed Industry-Wide Problems
Washington - The errors and misjudgments that led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling rig last spring weren't the result just of blunders by BP …
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Army’s “Spiritual Fitness” Test Comes Under Fire
(Image: US Army) An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration’s torture program …
Army’s “Spiritual Fitness” Test Comes Under Fire
Test Was Designed by Psychologist Who Inspired CIA's Torture Program An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of …
Solution: Cut Costs of Radioactive Waste Stabilization Programs Through Competition
This week's Solution's column examines a very important but overlooked and permanent problem of dealing with our nuclear waste, waste that we have manufactured in the past and waste …
Solution: Cut Costs of Radioactive Waste Stabilization Programs Through Competition
Solution to Deal With the Department of Energy's Radioactive Waste Stabilization Programs: Open Them to Competition By Greg Williams, Edited by Dina Rasor From the White House Blog in …
Peak Oil and a Changing Climate: An Introduction (Video)
The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But …