Paving the Road to a Hungrier, Unhealthier, and Less-Educated Nation
Massive spending cuts will make the future bleaker for millions of Americans.
Separate but Unequal Borrowers
A proposed mortgage qualification rule could end home ownership as we know it.
McDiabetes: Top Docs Tell McDonald’s To Stop Marketing Junk
One in three kids is at risk for developing type 2 diabetes as a result of diets high in McDonald’s-style junk food.
Sideshow Candidate
One well-rehearsed performance in a single debate shouldn’t wipe out the memory of Michele Bachmann’s long public career filled with absurd misstatements of fact and bizarre conspiracy theories.
Big Coal Buys Access to 4th Graders
Schools shouldn’t aid this kind of predatory marketing.
War Criminal? Not Me Boss!
What’s a war crime and what’s not depends on who wins, who controls the International Criminal Court, and who controls the press.
Austerity Draft
Be all the cannon fodder you can be!
The Lineup: Week of June 13-19, 2011
Wenonah Hauter calls for a ban on gas “fracking” and Jim Hightower miraculously finds the humor in the GOP’s efforts to kill Medicare.
Blowing the Whistle
IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin helped whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers.
No Fracking Way
In addition to poisoning our water, homes, and bodies, fracking is eroding the quality of life in rural America.
America Shouldn’t Scrimp on Food Safety
Gambling with the nation’s food safety isn’t a sound way to rein in government spending.
Enough Budget Slashing, Let’s Flip
A powerful solution to state deficits is to invert each state’s tax structure.
Stay Healthy
There are a thousand ways to die and every one of them has a lobbyist working for it in Washington. You are the only lobbyist working for No. 1.
The GOP’s Medicare Lies
Understandably, the public is now angry at Rep. Ryan and his Republican cohorts.
Segregation Still Strong 150 Years after the Civil War Began
Maybe racial discrimination will truly fade someday, but don’t count on it for now.