Month: April 2010

Mossville, Louisiana is an historic African American community in the southwest part of the state. Like too many similar communities around the country, it is surrounded by 14 industrial facilities that release millions of...

{Originally posted at my blog Senate Guru.} New polling by Research 2000 finds that Republican Chuck Grassley is far more vulnerable than the conventional wisdom gives him (dis)credit for. When asked if Grassley should be...

This is the first in a two-part series about Nourishing the Planet co-director Danielle Nierenberg’s visit with COMACO in Zambia. Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. One of the first...

You never want to have military forces deployed for strictly political reasons. But, you also want to have a compelling explanation for why you are withdrawing troops without them having first accomplished their mission. And I...

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people’s fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence. – Kjell Magne Bondevik As the...