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The U.S. military is beginning to see climate change as a security threat, but the government isn’t making it a high enough priority.

This Climate Plan B approach could cause wars and mass starvation.

Obama’s debt Commission’s plan is a Trojan Horse that would make GOP dreams of curbing corporate liability come true.

Active engagement that combines carrots and sticks is the most sensible route.

I can’t understand how the Obama administration became so inarticulate.

Summers’ sorry tenure shows that having a PhD doesn’t mean you can do the J.O.B.

If worse comes to worst, and climate change gets out of hand, there’s always plan B: nuclear winter.

Developing a vibrant bus network would cost peanuts, compared with high-speed rail options.

Tiffany Williams calls for raising the minimum wage and Lisa Hajjar highlights the recent conviction of Omar Khadr, a Canadian Guantanamo detainee.

Boosting it would help our lowest-paid workers as well as the entire economy.

As family farms and ranches fail, consumers suffer, too.

The government’s case was based largely on Omar Khadr’s own self-incriminating statements, even though he made them after being tortured.

Video cameras keep candidates honest on campaign trail.

No sane politician would vote for any of the changes the commission headed by Bowles and Simpson is recommending, unless he or she is planning to retire early.

Americans pay far more attention to the World Series than to the ongoing carnage in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He also pleads guilty for Hurricane Katrina, Haiti’s earthquake, and Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption.

The agency has found a new demon to purge as it knocks down your door.

Sarah Anderson highlights the dangers of letting financial wizardry distort our food supply and John Steel makes a call for bringing back American manufacturing.

Commodities markets are dominated by speculators who have never gotten their hands dirty in a corn field.

A growing number of politicians either deny sound scientific knowledge in various areas, or have found it prudent to make their constituents think they do.