What a difference two terms make when a Republican former vice president harshly critiques the new White House, compared with when a Democratic former VP raised policy concerns.
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.24.2009 | Green
COPENHAGEN — Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to...
Politico | ANDY BARR | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
Al Gore said Friday that fellow former Vice President Dick Cheney has jumped back into the political fray too soon into the new administration's term....
AFP | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
With the House Energy and Commerce Committee due to start its formal debate on the bill come Monday, hoping to approve it by week's end and send it to...
Ariston Anderson | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
Sure, you can praise Oprah for not being a hypocrite. She's rich and she's proud of it. It's kind of tacky to flaunt your riches in a recession, but whatever.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
Earlier today, Ben Smith reported that McCain research director-cum-press secretary Brian Rogers will begin working as the research director for Al Go...
Gillian Caldwell | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green
As I started to immerse myself in the science and early impacts of global warming, I became increasingly distraught.
Greg Boose | Posted 06.05.2009 | Comedy
algore / Al Gore I received another one of those Koosh Balls in the mail... Probably from Dukakis.
guardian.co.uk | Suzanne Goldenberg | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green
He has called global warming a hoax, compared the Environmental Protection Agency with the Gestapo, and over the years dismissed Al Gore as desperate ...
New Yorker | Posted by Hendrik Hertzberg | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
"The choice would be electrifying," writes Michael Sean Winters at "In All Things," the group blog of America, the Catholic (Jesuit) weekly. The bi...
Dave Astor | Posted 06.03.2009 | Comedy
There are many American women qualified to succeed Souter on the way-too-male court, but Barack Obama has his eye on a guy -- namely, Barack Obama!
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.31.2009 | Comedy
It is important to boycott bacon and pulled pork sandwiches. It shows that we are serious and committed to overreacting.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green
Former Vice President Al Gore, foreign ministers and climate change scientists met this week in the town of Tromsø, Norway to discuss the impac...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Swine flu protection, nuthin' but pork, said the Republicans; California's new fuel regulations threaten corn ethanol; Does ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green
The sigh heard round the world -- the one that may have cost Al Gore the White House in 2000 -- returned to Capitol Hill Friday as an exasperated form...
Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green
Get out your aerosol spray cans, they're not the problem after all! Scientists now know the real cause of Global Warming: Fat people.
Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green
This week, the defenders of dirty energy really, really outdid themselves in their efforts to try and derail the clean energy jobs plan currently starting to wend its way through the House of Representatives.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore, the leading American voice on climate change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan difference...
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green
I just came back from an inspiring Goldman Prize Award ceremony, where seven grassroots environmental change-makers were recognized for their work and resiliency.
USA Today | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
Former vice president Al Gore is entering the stem cell arena with an announcement today of a $20 million biotech venture in the hot area of "induced ...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green
It may not be the cover of Rolling Stone, but the Sierra Club's own Bruce Nilles is nonetheless a rock star for being No. 74 on the iconic rock magazine's "RS 100: Agents of Change" list.
Jake Brewer | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green
Earth is a stunning masterpiece that will leave even the most ardent coal lobbyist in awe of our planet and yearning to see more -- and to preserve it.
Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
According to reports from top Republicans, Norm Coleman's legal battle for his Minnesota Senate seat could continue all the way to the Supreme Court, ...
Phil Bronstein | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media
Where is Mr. Gore, Nobel Prize winner and formerly the second most powerful person in the world in all this? How about a public expression of concern?
Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media
Leave it to Comedy Central -- this time Stephen Colbert -- to do the traditional media's job in exposing the fanatical charlatans like Glenn Beck.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.27.2009 | Media