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Corporate lobbyists are great at championing reform while killing it. “Corporate crises consultants” (yes, there are such creatures) are just corporate lobbyists who have patented a formula allowing … Read more
Two tyrannical Texas politicians responsible for the most draconian abortion ban in the country want to revive a slave-law concept. Here’s our big word of the day: Extraterritoriality. … Read more
Banking giants do a backflip on their promise to do the right thing for humanity on climate change. Bruce King, former governor of New Mexico, often baffled people … Read more
Iowa governor asserts food program “does nothing to promote nutrition” and could contribute to childhood obesity! This plotline could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about … Read more
Republicans concoct a whole new xenophobic bugaboo to goose up their anti-immigrant demagoguery — another border wall. In the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants … Read more
CAFOs — Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations — are nightmarish creatures of industrial agribusiness. A decade ago, Oklahoma’s countryside was literally infested with 626 massively polluting CAFOs — Concentrated … Read more
In cities all across America, private enterprise is driving poor and middle-class families out of their own towns. In cities all across America, an infiltration of private enterprise … Read more
Why not just send our “genius” billionaires to Mars, and let them report back? Unfortunately, in the short time we homo sapiens have existed on this 4.5-billion-year-old Planet … Read more
Let’s build public support for fundamental democratic change in America’s food direction and climate progress. “Arkansas Traveler” is an old-time song of folk humor that tells of a … Read more
One breakthrough for environmental progress was made recently by young climate activists in deep-red, rural Montana. “OK, boomer.” That’s a snarky phrase currently some use to mock 60- … Read more
