Janet Redman, who provided testimony at the DNC Platform Committee, and Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch, address the draft’s shortcomings on the carbon tax, TPP, fracking, and fossil fuel extraction
Conservative assumptions about the link between freedom and inequality don’t add up.
IPS’ drug policy expert answers questions about the drug war in a live chat in New Zealand
As Donald Trump and Ted Cruz face off over ethanol, the argument is of far greater consequence for the climate than the 2016 presidential race.
Taking over a federal building at the point of a rifle gives protest a bad name.
Please join us for a discussion of the new book about “A Blueprint for Overcoming Systemic Risk” with author and former banking executive Avinash Persaud.
The Boehner-led House passed an anti-environmental bill right after the pope urged Congress to protect nature.
By making it mandatory for corporations to disclose the gap between what they pay their chief executives and most typical workers, the government will empower investors and consumers to compare individual corporations by their level of CEO greed.
The most important executive compensation indicator is the gap between what CEOs and their workers are paid.
Now that most Americans support the legalization of marijuana, some Republicans back the right of states to stop banning it.
The rules aren’t broken–they’re fixed.
The government has yet to address the lapses in bomb-grade uranium storage security that an 82-year-old nun and her accomplices revealed months ago.
In a complete distortion of free-market economics, the phone companies that secure contracts with prisons are often the ones that charge more than their competitors.
Vermont’s Yankee reactor would have closed this year had a power company kept a decade-old promise.
More states should follow California’s lead and protect minors from the junk science known as “conversion therapy.”