Not as well known as the Goldman Prize, or Human Rights Watch annual recognition of activists, the Civil Courage Prize deserves wider appreciation for its honoring of steadfast resistance to … [Keep reading >>]

Update: “The most extraordinary October snowstorm in over two centuries in the Northeast U.S. has finally come to an end this Sunday afternoon. Not since the infamous snow hurricane of … [Keep reading >>]

From France and Colorado the warnings come: the wildflowers are in serious retreat.  In France the cause appears to be intensive, chemical based, farming.  In Colorado, the shifting of the … [Keep reading >>]

From Robert Reich — whose blog is always worth checking into:

 
The so-called flat tax is all the rage among Republican presidential hopefuls. Herman Cain was the first. Now, Rick Perry … [Keep reading >>]

Words Without Borders, a magazine and publisher and website has had two months of literature from the Arab Spring.  Worth a look, for new authors and startling new themes….

July 2001: … [Keep reading >>]

Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing library of the history of climate change and human … [Keep reading >>]

In another article to add to those already arguing that lower taxes for corporations will not encourage their investment in R&D or job producing products and plants.  The corporations are … [Keep reading >>]

Not a front page article, with screaming headlines.  Let’s make it so.
The top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation’s income over the last three … [Keep reading >>]

…some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors gathered Tuesday – not inside his tony San Francisco fundraiser at the W Hotel, but outside on the sidewalks carrying signs in protest … [Keep reading >>]

Joe Nocera, long time business columnist at the NY Times,and former Fortune Magazine editor, has recently moved to the opinion page of the Times. I had always read his business … [Keep reading >>]

“President Obama is scheduled to appear before hundreds of donors at a $7,500-a-plate noontime fundraiser today at San Francisco’s W Hotel – but not a single local reporter will be … [Keep reading >>]

Widely picked up opinion piece in the NY Times/Herald Tribune last week:

That Crooked Carrot is Also Food.  Asit K Biswas & Leong Chin
The Londoner who walks home with three bags … [Keep reading >>]