Final Defense Budget Mostly Business As Usual
The final conference report for the $680 billion defense budget is out, representing the agreement between the House and Senate on military spending for the next financial year. The text of the...
View ArticleThe Price of Health Reform: Abortion Rights?
Will health care reform come at the expense of abortion rights? The Democrats’ historic health care bill squeaked through the House on Saturday only after pro-life forces scored a major victory....
View ArticleWhat Melody Barnes Said About Gay Marriage
Earlier this week an appearance by White House director of domestic policy Melody Barnes at Boston College's School of Law created something of a controversy. The Huffington Post reported that Barnes...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Your Country Drowns?
IT'S A BRIGHT, BALMY SUNDAY afternoon and I'm driving through the western outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand, the kind of place you never see on a postcard. No majestic mountains, no improbably green...
View ArticleTiny Tuvalu Makes Big Waves at Copenhagen
The low-lying Pacific island nation of Tuvalu may be one of the first casualties of a warming world. It's also one of the smallest countries on earth, with no coveted natural resources or strategic...
View ArticleBreaking: Obama Announcing Deal
Update: Obama is speaking. Here's the live audio feed.We're hearing that some kind of deal has been reached at Copenhagen and that Obama is due to speak to reporters at 4.30pm EST. We'll have details...
View ArticleObama's Copenhagen Deal: Real Or Not?
David Corn and Kate Sheppard explain how Obama's eleventh-hour climate deal was stitched together—and why it may not even be a deal at all.
View ArticleNuclear Lab Accidentally Blows Up Building
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico accidentally blew up a building on December 16 with a Civil War-style cannon. According to an occurrence report [pdf], which was first...
View ArticleWhite House Takes Question About Question Time
At today's White House press briefing, David Corn asked Bill Burton whether Obama would commit to holding regular Q&A sessions with Republicans, following the riveting exchange last week at the...
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Tuvalu v. ExxonMobil?
Also from the Climate Desk: A look at domestic legal strategies to address global warming.The PrunéÅov power station is the Czech Republic's biggest polluter: Its 900-foot-high smokestack pushes a...
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