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 ›
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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 ›
PNC Bank Will Cease Investments in Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Bowing to pressure from Quaker environmentalists, PNC Bank announced yesterday that it will be restricting financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The shift outlined in its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report means PNC Bank will effectively cease its investment in this… Read More ›
Aleppo, Syria – A Long History
ALEPPO THE ENCHANTED CITY Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC.[10] Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of… Read More ›
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