Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Robin Madel | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
A former geology professor of mine used to say that this period of geologic history would be seen in the future as "The Pampers Layer." That can't be the legacy we intend to leave.
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
In the Chamber of Commerce's zeal to please a few powerful industries they seem to have fallen out of step with their environmentally concerned members.
Sara Benincasa | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy
The Media Consortium | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
By Raquel Brown, TMC MediaWire Blogger Our throwaway economy is largely to blame for our environmental woes, as Lester Brown points out for Grist. Fi...
The Media Consortium | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
If the Democrats want healthcare reform, they are going to have to go it alone. Let's hope they pass a bill that would make Sen. Kennedy proud.
The Media Consortium | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
The White House is sorely mistaken if it thinks that the public option belongs in the "nice but not necessary" category. Without it, there's little hope of containing costs or reigning in the power of insurance companies.
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
A magazine has published a major investigative article by Shane Bauer, one of three Americans detained in Iran after accidentally crossing the border while hiking in Kurdistan.
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green
A few days into her reporting trip to Fiji to check out the source of America's No. 1 imported bottled water, Anna Lenzer was arrested and threatened with imprisonment.
The Media Consortium | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
The U.S. job market may be showing signs of life, but the scenario isn't really so rosy, as our government has yet to relieve the foreclosure pandemic.
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
What was said during the 18 1/2-minute gap in Nixon's Watergate tapes?
The Media Consortium | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green
Last week, Wal-Mart, ExxonMobil and AAA announced new programs that promote sustainability and a cleaner planet. Are their efforts actually a case of corporate greenwashing?
The Media Consortium | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green
Urban agriculture has a tradition of mushrooming during tough times.
The Media Consortium | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
President Obama reportedly complained that liberal advocacy groups are attacking Democrats instead of trying to pass whatever health care bill the Senate happens to cough up.
Eddie Gehman Kohan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green
No one is being poisoned by eating the bounty of wonderful crops that have been grown in the White House Kitchen Garden, period.
James Warren | Posted 07.29.2009 | Media
Sheila Bair is a Bull Moose in the China shop of the Obama administration's economic team.
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
Will financial reporting ever have a Woodward and Bernstein, the two metro desk Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate Scandal?
Anne Hill | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living
Rachel Maddow's dream highlights some universal concerns that arise in our anxiety dreams, including the pressure we face being professionals while still being ourselves.
Jim Luce | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living
One person can make a difference. You can make a difference.
New York Times | Tim Arango | Posted 04.07.2009 | Media
In its beginning Mother Jones, the leftist magazine founded in 1976 in San Francisco, viewed itself as a defender of independent journalism free from ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
It's not a good sign for the GOP when even an avowedly pro-business gathering is stocked with far more Democrats than Republicans. On Thursday mornin...
The Media Consortium | Posted 11.18.2008 | Home
With less than three weeks to go in the run-up to the presidential election, the McCain campaign, with help from the Republican National Committee, co...
The Media Consortium | Posted 11.16.2008 | Home
Special Debate Edition In the much-anticipated final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign season, the man who landed the greatest number of punch...
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.
The Media Consortium | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home
McCain not only pointed his finger angrily at his opponent, but chose to refer to a black man in a way that omitted any reference to his humanity. Even if that was not his intention, it was not a particularly deft move.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green