Giant waves, possibly triggered by two meteorite impacts, may have shaped Mars’s coastline and could hint at whether the red planet was once habitable. By Nicola Davis Mega-tsunamis in an ancient ocean on Mars may have shaped the landscape and… Read More ›
Education
Don’t Be Fooled: Koch Push For Justice Reform Is Plot To Protect Corporate Criminals
The bill will mainly protect corporations who are polluting our water, land, and air quality.
Wonderful NGO with School for Syrian Refugee Children in Northern Lebanon
More than 1 million Syrian refugees have become stranded in Lebanon. Some of them have lost everything. The Akkar district in the North of Lebanon is itself the poorest region of the country and has been neglected by international assistance… Read More ›
College is a con: The savage truth about your bachelor’s degree
Higher education wears the cloak of liberalism, but in policy and practice, it’s a cutthroat system of exploitation By David Masciotra, AlterNet Higher education wears the cloak of liberalism, but in policy and practice, it can be a corrupt and… Read More ›
Could This Zero-Emissions, Triple-Decker Solar Plane Revolutionize the Aviation Industry?
By Lorraine Chow As the Solar Impulse 2 makes its historic round-the-world trip powered only by the energy of the sun, it’s not so crazy to think that sometime in the future, commercial flying will abandon dirty fossil fuels. Well,… Read More ›
These Are America’s 10 Most Polluted Cities
By Justin Worland Here are the U.S. cities with the most ozone pollution in 2015: California is well-represented on the list & in the article. 1. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA 2. Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA 3. Bakersfield, CA 4. Fresno-Madera, CA 5…. Read More ›
Scalia and Roberts don’t know best: Here’s how we take our politics back from reactionary court and billionaire donors
Right-wing justices have perverted our campaign-finance system. There’s a mechanism to reclaim it: The Constitution. By Jamie Raskin: Raskin is a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law, a Democratic state senator in Maryland and the… Read More ›
‘The Culture War’ — A Battle The GOP Can’t Win
By Leonard Pitts The argument is over and conservatives have lost. Some of them just don’t know it yet. That’s the takeaway from the remarkable events of last week wherein the states of Indiana and Arkansas executed high-speed U-turns —… Read More ›
Netanyahu’s Speech and the American Jewish Condition
The scandal over the Netanyahu speech to Congress is in the end a story about the Jewish condition in the United States. Netanyahu is coming here to tell the Congress to torpedo the efforts of the U.S. president to cut… Read More ›
2 Years After Raising Taxes on the Rich, Here’s the Hellscape Minnesota Has Become
By Zeeshan Aleem March in Policy.Mic Since 2011, Minnesota has been doing quite well for itself. The state has created more than 170,000 jobs, according to the Huffington Post. Its unemployment rate stands at 3.6% — the fifth-lowest in the… Read More ›
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