"Thank you Senator Brown for fighting for a strong public option. Americans need progressives like you to keep fighting any attempts to weaken or gut it."

Reports from The Hill in Washington D.C. are that Democratic Senators are preparing to offer a "compromise" amendment to the healthcare bill as soon as next week that would destroy the public option.

The way to lower the quantity of energy required to make and distribute short-lived consumer goods is to make them durable, repairable and upgradable.

The economic meltdown has hit non-college grads much harder than the educated. And conservatives are very good at exploiting their anger and unease.

Allow me to introduce myself. I taught English for 12 years at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. Before that, I was a juvenile probation officer in Baltimore for five years. Since 1990, I have run United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organi

The Appalachia Restoration Act is a bill in the US Senate which will sharply reduce mountaintop removal coal mining by protecting our headwater streams, where our rivers, like the Mississippi and the Ohio, are born. Over 2000 miles of streams have alread

The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it will hear a dispute from California involving an evangelical Christian club at a public law school that wants recognition and funding as an official campus organization, even though it discriminates on religious

For those of us who chose to follow what some called "frivolous" careers like art, history, literature, botany, sports and the like, our best instructors gave us some valuable advice: "Do what you love and the money will follow." This advice is ageless,

Please overturn the Bush-era policy that prohibits the BLM from properly protecting lands that are wild and pristine as wilderness study areas. Under your leadership, the Department of the Interior has already made significant improvements in how the maj

Luis Medellin and his three little sisters--aged 5, 9 and 12--live in the middle of an orange grove in Lindsay, CA--a small farming town in the Central Valley. During the growing season, Luis and his sisters are awakened several times a week by the sickly s