Tuesday’s election saw women take a record number of seats in the U.S. Senate. One-fifth of the legislative body no longer belongs to the good old boys.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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A Rasmussen poll released Friday shows 68 percent of Americans see global warming as a “serious problem,” up from 46 percent in 2009. In 2010, Gallup reported 48 percent of Americans thought the dangers of global warming were exaggerated.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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Global warming could be American imperialism’s undoing if Pentagon officials don’t prepare accordingly, a group of experts effectively reported in a study warning against such “climate surprises” as natural disasters, sea-level rise, drought and epidemics.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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By Robert Reich — The game of chicken isn’t about how much or when we cut the budget deficit. Or even whether the upcoming “fiscal cliff” poses a danger to the economy.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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The election suggests a new political landscape in the United States. With a new American majority, will Barack Obama and Congress really compromise on the impending fiscal cliff? Or will victorious Republican representatives remain committed to the Ryan budget? The “Left, Right & Center” commentators will consider these questions and others on this week’s program.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — From election spending, to shifting voting demographics, to the legalization of same-sex marriage and marijuana, a look at 10 of the top story lines from this year’s election.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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“Cape Spin!” tells the story of how unlikely alliances (“Kennedys, Kochs and everyday folks”) teamed up to do battle over a proposed waterborne wind farm and what would be the largest clean energy project in America in one of the 1 percent’s most treasured playgrounds: the sea surrounding Cape Cod.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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Days before David Petraeus resigned from his post as director of the CIA for having an extramarital affair, The Daily Beast’s Newsreek Newsweek column published the general’s “Rules for Living” as documented by his biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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Mark Takano, a Democrat, has made history by winning his election in California’s new 41st Congressional District.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — Lincoln is inherently a static and talkative subject that Spielberg has triumphed over not through avoidance, but by embrace.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including a CEO who claims he fired employees because of Obama’s victory, and Ted Nugent, who has a meltdown over the election on Twitter.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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The glum-faced author announced what appears to be his retirement in a “little-noticed” interview with a French magazine. “To tell you the truth, I’m done,” Roth told Les Inrocks in October, adding that he has not written anything in three years.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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David Petraeus, who has been married for more than 37 years, admitted the affair in his resignation letter to President Obama.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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According to geography research group Floating Sheep, pinpointing the spike in Twitter hate speech is a “useful reminder that technology reflects the society in which it is based, both the good and the bad.”
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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A “toxic mix of rage and delusion, and its concomitant sense of oppression, have become the defining political features of much of white America today,” writes Harper’s Magazine columnist Kevin Baker, on observing the conservative reaction to the re-election of President Barack Obama this week.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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To deal with fuel shortages in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decreed that car owners in New York City will be allowed to buy gas only every other day, starting at 6 a.m. on Friday.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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Conservatives have posited numerous theories as to why Mitt Romney lost the election, but one put forward by radio talk show rabble-rouser Michael Graham is probably the most ludicrous and absurd.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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CounterPunch, the muckraking political newsletter founded in 1994 by investigative journalist Jeffrey St. Clair and recently deceased iconoclast Alexander Cockburn, has paid a “savage price” for maintaining its deeply critical view of President Obama during the 2012 presidential campaign season.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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Republicans will probably say this is yet another instance of the New Jersey governor cozying up to the president and dissing the White House loser.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Election night was a heck of a party, but morning in America already feels too much like a hangover.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Gay America’s best election yet; Robert Scheer on Obama’s second term; marijuana legalization; and Internet freedom.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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The president choked up speaking to his campaign team, reminiscing about his work as a community organizer and saying, “Whatever good we do over the next four years will pale in comparison to what you guys end up accomplishing for years and years to come.”
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — So much for voter suppression. So much for the enthusiasm gap. So much for the idea that smug, self-appointed arbiters of what is genuinely “American” were going to “take back” the country, as if it had somehow been stolen.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Mike Allen, for those who don’t know, is Washington’s insiders’ insider.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By David Sirota — There are two types of money that corrupt our politics. After a national election that cost more than $2 billion, most of us know about the blatant kind.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including the unofficial winner of the state of Florida and the question being asked about Diane Sawyer after election night.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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In a statement to the court, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords blasted Jan Brewer for her “feckless” leadership on the issue of gun control.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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By Alfred W. McCoy, TomDispatch —
During its years in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has begun to fuse biometrics, cyber-warfare, and a potential future aerospace shield into a robotic information regime that could produce a platform of unprecedented power for the exercise of global dominion—or for future military disaster.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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By Robert Reich — Tea partiers may be more amenable to an agreement now that the electorate has signaled it doesn’t especially like what the tea party has been up to.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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Jon Stewart anoints everyone’s favorite election forecasting wizard as the “lord and god of the algorithm” on Wednesday night’s show.
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
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