“Climategate” Researchers Largely Cleared
The House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said Wednesday that they'd seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit or its director,…
Saturday Voting Initiative
Intended to Increase Voter Participation
In the previous ten elections San Francisco has averaged between 42 and 47 percent turnout, said Ground Floor Public Affairs political consultant Alex Tourk during a signature gathering kickoff campaign…
Capitalism’s Self-inflicted Apocalypse
In the United States we hear that capitalism is wedded to democracy, hence the phrase, “capitalist democracies.” In fact, throughout our history there has been a largely antagonistic relationship between…
Dr. King’s Economic Dream Deferred
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship April 4, 2010 Forty-two years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee. To those…
Thank You Mr. LeMunyon for Constitutional Truth
The baseless harangues by anti-convention screamers only act to maintain the political status quo and perpetuate the fiction that elections can succeed in sending enough radically different people to Congress…
The Next Civil War
The Civil War ranks as the most costly of US wars, with 625,000 deaths and a comparable number of injuries. Now the Republican Party is stoking the fires of insurrection…
Pope Benedict’s Apology for Sex Abuse Seems Hollow
The expression was more accurate than we knew. This month, Pope Benedict XVI wrote a pastoral letter of apology -- of sorts -- to Ireland to atone for decades of…