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When it comes to debt, count on politicians to “think of the children.”... Read more»
For all the damage it caused, Sandy was only a Category 1 hurricane — Hurricane Katrina, by comparison, was a Category 3. Given the challenges even Sandy brought to the Northeast’s nuclear power plants, which of these facilities are prepared to deal with the flood risks widely expected to increase as a result of global warming?... Read more»
From diapers to temporary workers, society is chock-full of conveniently disposable items.... Read more»
In looking at the decisions the Postal Service has been forced to make since the early 2000s, it is almost as though the Bush Administration and successive Congresses had decided that the task was to make the Postal Service a failed business and a failed public service.... Read more»1
Environmental groups have long warned that America’s ravenous consumption of fossil fuels is not sustainable as a matter of public health or economic health . But on the heels of a boom in domestic natural gas production — most of it the result of the adoption of fracking — their opponents are in the ascendency.... Read more»
Every day, in courtrooms throughout the United States, jurors make decisions about civil matters small and large. They only have to satisfy themselves that a fact or element of a case is more likely than not.... Read more»
A revamped Farm Bill, scheduled for a vote this week, is set to cut $35 billion from the food stamp program. “One in seven Americans receive what we used to call food stamps. The figure is higher in Arizona, where one in three children – more than 466,000 – are considered ‘food insecure,” said U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva.... Read more»
The Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act did many things, but it was most fundamentally a decision to reorder the relationship between the federal government and the states, a decision to subordinate the idea of nationhood to judge-made deference theory.... Read more»
When Arizona faced a $2 billion deficit in 2010, lawmakers closed the budget gap by tightening eligibility requirements for Medicaid — eliminating health insurance for 300,000 people — and by ending a state preschool program and cutting funding from K-12 education.... Read more»
Thanks to the powerful corporate food lobby, children’s sugar addiction has them swinging toward juvenile diabetes while they slide from obesity to heart disease.... Read more»
Cities’ use of “spatial tactics” such as exclusion zones at upcoming political conventions and this weekend’s NATO summit risks muffling dissent, critics say.... Read more»5
Of all the fantasies indulged in by a society speeding toward self-destruction, none is as consequential as the idea that continuing growth — both in population and size of our economy — has a happy-ever-after ending. Yet, when overpopulation is discussed at all, it is discussed as a problem limited to the developing world.... Read more»
Homelessness, untreated PTSD, suicides: How we play “Taps” for our veterans.... Read more»
Despite a Times story that features the potential impact on the middle class — look, we’re all in this together — it is entirely clear that no one is looking to raise taxes on the middle class. What is at issue, just as it was in 2010, is whether the era of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy will continue.... Read more»
Editorial cartoonist Matt Davies speculates on what some of James Cameron’s unreleased video of the deep sea might reveal.... Read more»
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