Rachel Maddow talks intelligently, extremely intelligently. As she reports here, today wasn't a good day for John McCain. It was a joy to hear Maddow interview with Barack Obama on why he doesn't attack "conservatives," the future of energy and Pakistan. Maddow represents the direction journalism needs to go. Probing,…
Al Gore said it starkly: it's time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new dirty coal plants. If you’re a young person, looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now and not done, I believe we’ve reached the stage where…
I’m sitting here, stunned by the amount of money that is about to be casually taken out of the U.S. Treasury to “save” the economy. I’m highly suspicious. I’m not sure this taxpayer revenue is needed or that it is any more than a band-aid. Surely, Wall Street (or other…
According to John McCain, Sara Palin "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America." Here's Tom Tomorrow's response: Really? Sarah Palin knows more about energy than, say, anyone in the Department of Energy, thousands of Ph.Ds in academia, or the CEOs of dozens of…
Many U.S. cities are starting to look more "European," in that the affluent residents are moving toward the city centers, while the less affluent are moving more toward the areas they can best afford: the outskirts. The New Republic's Alan Ehrenhalt describes this phenomenon in an article entitled "Trading Places":…