Today I submitted the necessary petition signatures to qualify for the ballot for U.S. Congress in Michigan's new 13th Congressional District. I am th...
Marci Harris | Posted 04.27.2012
How did POPVOX co-founder Rachna Choudhry and I start caring about disruption? A few years ago, we noticed that in our world -- that of advocacy, Congress, and civic engagement -- NO ONE was doing the task that was expected of them.
Bill Chameides | Posted 04.10.2012
A product used not just by farmers but also by lots of us common variety home gardeners and lawn groomers has been linked to a variety of unsavory health effects from cancer (in people) to hormonal disruptions (in animals).
Doug Demeo | Posted 04.04.2012
If money were not such a factor, more common, good-minded men and women might be willing to give congressional candidacy an honest shot.
Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.28.2012
Plans to move regional, mail-processing activities from Loyola Avenue in downtown New Orleans to Baton Rouge are not a done deal, according to the U.S. Postal Service and union spokesmen last week.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2012
Times have just changed for today's legislators, who have to wake up every morning to the news that their approval ratings hover one or two points ahead of people who desecrate graves for fun.
Steve Cobble | Posted 05.05.2012
So take a second and think back -- wouldn't you have missed Dennis Kucinich if he had not been there standing up for us these last 10 years? And won't you miss him if he's not there to fight for us in Congress next year?
Posted 12.23.2011
IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday urged member countries to quickly sign off on an agreement last year to double IMF resources and give unde...
Posted 12.21.2011
As a result of the spending bill that passed Friday, allegedly to avoid a government shutdown, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National En...
Bill Chameides | Posted 02.12.2012
Does the Durban Platform really "set a new course for the global fight against climate change"? Maybe, but it will require a whole lot of work by the likes of the United States and China to keep the world on that course.
Jim Garrison | Posted 02.11.2012
The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, if signed into law, will signal the death knell of our constitutional republic and the formal inception of a legalized police state in the United States.
AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 11.20.2011
-- This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Nov. 20: Federal forces this week in 1861 continue to press their blockade of the Southern coast....
Bill Chameides | Posted 01.15.2012
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a Congressional resolution marking the end of climate skepticism -- or the beginning of major climate legislation -- any time soon.
Ami Bera, MD | Posted 11.11.2011
This Veterans Day, I call on Congress to pay a great deal more than lip service to treating America's service men and women with the respect they deserve.
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 01.11.2012
During his Sixty Minutes interview, I was not surprised to see that Abramoff was his usual likeable and articulate self. I was surprised, however, that Abramoff responded to his interviewer, Leslie Stahl, with almost "junkie pride."
Carol Peasley | Posted 12.01.2011
Let us all hope that the first falling leaves and signs of optimism emerging from FedEx Field don't encourage our lawmakers to once again make international family planning a political football.
AP | By CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 12.02.2011
WASHINGTON -- How did it get this bad on Capitol Hill? Why does Congress barely function today?...
Susan Buchanan | Posted 11.27.2011
The United Houma Nation, with its family tree firmly planted in Louisiana's coastal parishes for the last 300 years, doesn't want to see its centers drown as the wetlands shrink.
Bill Chameides | Posted 11.26.2011
Everyone has something to say about something these days, on blogs, Twitter and Facebook. All fine and dandy. But there's another way to get heard: by putting your two cents on the record through what's known as the public comment period.
Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 11.15.2011
It all starts with a cough. A woman covers her mouth and then shakes hands with a man next to her on a plane. He infects 10 others. Everyone gets horr...
Bill Chameides | Posted 10.30.2011
It is often claimed that President Obama is against big oil, wants to shut down all oil extraction and exploration in the United States. Really? You think so?
Terry Newell | Posted 10.30.2011
Does our election process no longer produce Congresspeople who understand and adequately represent majority views? If so, how did we get to that point? One part of the answer may lie in how congressional districts are created.
Susan Buchanan | Posted 10.21.2011
BP's gushing well was capped in mid-July of last year but that was hardly the end of the spill saga for Gulf Coast residents.
Ambassador Tony Hall | Posted 10.10.2011
When I first visited Ethiopia at the height of the 1984 famine, I watched as twenty-four people died of starvation in less than fifteen minutes, right in front of my eyes.
Daniel Dowd | Posted 10.08.2011
The truth is no one can really know what a negative economic outlook for a historically dominant superpower means, because we are in uncharted waters.
Sen. Bert Johnson | Posted 04.30.2012