Shifting Gears
Just 1.5 percent of federal transportation funds support bicycling and walking projects.
Playing with Fire
Instead of firing teachers, closing libraries and senior centers, and cutting bus routes, let’s put the Pentagon on a diet.
Climate Insurance
With climate change making extreme weather the new normal, it’s prudent to do everything we can to protect our food supply.
Runaway Spending Cuts
The people who can least afford it are bearing the brunt of Washington’s austerity.
We’re Not Even Paving a Road to Nowhere
Our highways and bridges are decaying.
Cut the Pentagon’s Budget, Make the U.S. Safer
Let’s have a discussion about the benefits of pouring more and more money into wars.
Occupy the Budget
How to pay for the crisis while making our nation more equitable, green, and secure.
Nuclear Turkeys
The Pentagon has too much hardware once thought necessary to defeat the Soviet Union.
A Missile in Every Pot
At last, we Americans are safe.
The Skinny on Farm Subsidies and Obesity
To make real, lasting improvements in our food system, we have to get to the root of the problem.
Defending Bloated Military Spending
The Pentagon is scrambling to protect its flank in these budget-cutting times.
Resolution against the Machine
One county dared to stand up to the military-industrial complex. The complex has fought back.
Military Spending Belongs on the Table
The supercommittee seems unlikely to make substantial military cuts and instead quite likely to cut spending for the other agencies under the “security spending” umbrella, even though the Pentagon gets the lion’s share of that category’s funding.
America’s Government Contracting Bonanza Bilks Taxpayers
On average, Uncle Sam spends nearly twice as much when the government outsources a job as it would if it just hired another “expensive” federal worker.
Perry’s Feast
The trouble with this country is government largesse! Burp.