“Turnaround Is Fair Play”: What If The Girl Scouts Investigated The Bishops?
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is going to investigate Girl Scouts USA because of concern over some of the Scouts’ program materials and some organizational ties, such as—cue ominous music—the...
View Article“Why Did Christie Settle With Exxon?”: At This Moment In History, Good Policy...
Last week, Republican governor Chris Christie’s administration settled New Jersey’s long-standing environmental lawsuit against ExxonMobil Corp. for pennies on the dollar. For a decade, the state had...
View Article“Dr. Evil” Turns Out To Be “Dr. Silly”: A Self-Serving Huckster Who Grubs For...
Big Oil, labor exploiters, industrial food factories, frackers, and other corporate profiteers have been paying a lot of money to a man who celebrates himself as “Dr. Evil” — the scourge of all...
View Article“The Wrong Way To Honor Florida’s Rick Scott”: No One In Their Right Mind...
After five years in office, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has not made many friends among those concerned with the environment, the climate crisis, or the state’s natural resources. “By most expert...
View Article“An American Prayer”: Why Doesn’t Lindsey Graham Challenge The ‘Religious...
Five years ago, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza had a lengthy and fairly depressing report on the demise of climate-change legislation in the US Senate. Lizza included this interesting tidbit about Senator...
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