Environment

This November, California voters will have an opportunity to vote on a simple, yet important ballot initiative called Prop 37 u2013 the California Right to Know Act. If approved, …

Opponents of the natural gas-drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, will take another major step in building their movement this weekend when they gather in Washington D.C. …

The U.S. heat wave is slowly shaking the foundations of American politics. It may take years for the deep rumble to evolve into an above ground, institution-shattering earthquake, but …

There will be at least 100 million more Americans by 2050, and likely 150 million more. Yet the cities that will house them are so spatially and economically unstable …

In the age of the citizen-consumer, does a public that relies on privately funded social services and self-purchased insurance have any agency beyond our

Better regulation would be great at the margin. So would more highly-paid, highly-motivated regulators. But as Salmon says, u201cthe real problem here isnu2019t regulatory, and as a result there …

In June 2012, the Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) produced a

Understanding the relationship between human beings and the quantum reality of the universe becomes paramount if we seek to truly understand and transform the social and structural systems of …

Updates include Capital One Bank's misdeeds, French socialists' new policies, taxing churches in Spain, Walton family's immense wealth, strike at Caterpillar, and taxing private wealth.