Month: March 2010

According to a 2007 poll, Americans define human rights as the rights to equal opportunity, freedom from discrimination, a fair criminal justice system, and freedom from torture or abuse by law enforcement. Despite the current...

Cross posted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Care International’s work in Zambia has two main goals: increase the production of staple crops and improve farmers’ access to agricultural...

Here’s a story I haven’t told because I didn’t think it was something that would be helpful. When I was in Pittsburgh for the Netroots Nation conference, I shared an elevator with Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY), who is...

I personally do not have health insurance because I cannot afford it. But our family’s health insurance went up 39% this year, and that was before we added a baby to the mix. Just as the President describes, we got a...

… you must be an executive with Goldman Sachs. No, wait, I take that back. You must be Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke. No wait you must be Hank Paulson and Alan Greenspan. Yeah, that’s who you would have to be to...