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How a big fracking setback got overlooked
David Sirota
A potential 2016 contender softens his pro-fracking stance, citing unsettled science. So why is it being ignored?
Meet the “family values,” anti-environment hypocrites
David Sirota
If the right wing is so concerned with family, why can't it make slight sacrifices to avert disaster for our kids?
Obama urges Ohio State grads to be active citizens
Prachi Gupta
The president delivered the commencement address, calling for grads to adopt "a sense of civic duty"
Big coal owns Illinois
Jeff Biggers
The state's latest disgrace: Issuing pollutant discharge permits to a company cited for as many as 600 violations
Getting rich off global warming
Alexander Zaitchik
Local officials and enviros are making plans for a post-global warming America. And so are profit-seeking companies
Blizzards in May. Wild fires. Is this global warming?
Climate Central
Sandy has been followed by massive spring snowfalls. Here's what to look for as our climate-change awareness grows
4 reasons why Obama should push for a carbon tax
Bo Cutter
Even a minor tax would create jobs and federal revenue, not to mention help the environment
Cicadas prepare to invade by the billions
Richard Schiffman
But climate change may mean it's the last time
Would we give up burgers to stop climate change?
David Sirota
A new report suggests that adjusting our diet can slow global warming. Now let's see if our politics will let us
How neglecting bees could endanger humans
Richard Schiffman
Bees pollinate much of our food supply, but a pesticide threatens their survival
Alan Alda isn’t interested in your scientific mumbo jumbo
Frank Eltman
The film and television star is on a mission to teach physicians and physicists to use more accessible language
Census reveals historic black voter turnout
Hope Yen
New data shows more African Americans voted in 2012 than any other ethnic group, and at a greater rate than whites
We tried to weaponize the weather
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Cold War secrets: Melting polar ice cap with nukes, changing the sea level, even LSD weapons were all on the table
Worst Congress money can buy
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
Failed gun control legislation and a fertilizer plant explosion reveal how poisoned by big money our government is
“Parks and Recreation”: TV’s most progressive show
Matthew Gannon
The NBC sitcom is just as ardent in its defense of government as it is fearless in its skewering of conservatives
Could a carbon fee save us from climate change?
Tara Lohan
Climatologist James Hansen explains how government can stave off global catastrophe -- and what we can do to help
Is the press too big to fail?
Todd Gitlin
Today's media may be maddening, but the sobering truth is that there was no Golden Age of American journalism
Why people believe in conspiracy theories
Alex Seitz-Wald
An expert explains the psychology of conspiratorial thinking
South Dakota approves paying legislators’ ALEC dues
Jillian Rayfield
The state legislature's Republican-controlled Executive Board decided that the treasury should pay the fee
Secrets of the conservative media machine
Lee Fang
After mastering TV news and talk radio, conservatives lost control of their message online. That's about to change
Will water supplies provoke World War III?
Michael Klare
Extreme climate change and a global scarcity of vital resources could prove to be an explosive combination
How Boston exposes America’s dark post-9/11 bargain
Andrew O'Hehir
Why did this story drive the whole country nuts? Because we traded rights for "security," and didn't get either
Giffords is a fighter, and NRA will be sorry
Joan Walsh
The post-Newtown gun-control movement must undo a decade of Democratic inaction on guns. And it will
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