At a recent conference hosted by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), Jonathon Porritt, a green advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, suggested that the population of the UK must be about 30 million people if the nation is to be…

Put the FBI on notice: the “NRDC mafia” is in town. At least that’s how they are described in the New York Times, which identifies seven high-ranking former Natural Resources Defense Council employees who have accepted influential positions working for…

In this week’s business news, home re-sales across the country rose 6.5 percent in the face of record drops in home prices. CNN used the word “surprise” to characterize this jump. But the only thing that was a “surprise” is…

Help Wanted Position: Car Czar Duties: Restructure “Big Three” U.S. automakers Save unionized jobs, American manufacturing, future U.S. competitiveness Repeat the phrase “too big to fail” over and over while appealing to Congress for billions of dollars in taxpayer money…

It isn’t often that card-carrying conservatives find anything People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has to say palatable. This, then, is a red-letter day as rightwingers and PETA are in full, er, bear hug mode over the sad…

The rhetoric from President Bush urging the government’s heavy-handed intervention in the current financial crisis is almost too hot to handle. Hot in the sense that he stole his own words from earlier speeches urging the United States into war…