Recently, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, visited Fort Knox, where we stash the nation’s gold supply. Yet the last time anybody went in to see the gold, other than, workers there, was in 1974. And the last time it was counted was in 1953. This begs the question: how important is gold to a health …
Dr. Chad Hanson is a forest fire ecologist from the John Muir Earth Island Institute and he believes the current logging bill before Congress will eliminate forest plan standards and open the forests up to clearcutting without any environmental analysis or public comment. Is this a sop to the logging industry? This is an important …
Holly Fretwell Aside from significant financial constraints, America’s public lands have many challenges. Wildfires burn millions of acres every year, costing billions of dollars. We see armed standoffs over grazing rights and conflict over national-monument designations. Given that the federal government owns nearly one-third of the expanse of our country, our political differences are spilling …
That’s a concise one word explanation for the presidential campaign of 2016. It’s also the name of the new book by Dr. Gary Rose, a professor and Chair of the Department of Government, Politics and Global Studies at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. He provides a chronology of events leading up to the astonishing victory …
Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he loves. And he’s not alone. Many recent columns and stories attest to the concern that many fans are having with the brutal residual effects of the game which leaves so many players with brain damage in addition …
During the 2016 campaign and in the early days of his presidency, President Donald Trump made ‘defeating radical Islamic terrorism’ a key part of his counterterrorism strategy. He also said that he would step up efforts to blunt other terrorist groups. At the same time, he vowed to be successful without deploying large numbers of …
In America, we’ve experienced four decades of progress against preventable deaths. We’ve cut death rates for motor vehicle accidents, homicides and smoking. That was before the opioid epidemic, which has driven the national death rate from overdoses to 9.3 per 100,000 in 2015, up from 0.4 in 1975. What once was rarely seen is now …
Did you ever look around your cities and towns and wonder why so many folks look alike? In cities, often we see a preponderance of people of color and in suburbs and rural communities just the opposite. An accident, you wonder? Just the way things happened…birds of a feather? Not quite. In fact, finally, thanks …
https://www.conventionofstates.com/ This effort is described as a project of citizens for self governance. The rallying cry of those who want to use Article V of The Constitution as a tool to amend it is that the federal government has grown to big, too unwieldy and overly intrusive in our lives. This they say is …
Was the period of corporate loyalty to workers simply an aberration? In the modern era, generous salaries and benefits packages were most commonly doled out from the mid-1940’s into the early 1980’s. Through the prism of four corporate behemoths, Rick Wartzman, director of the KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society at the Drucker Institute, …