If you wanted to develop a corporation that personified evil, you couldn't do better than Freedom Industries: Federal and state officials were scrambling today following the surprise disclosure on Tuesday about an additional chemical that was in the tank the spilled "Crude MCHM" into the...
Author: Erik Loomis
The situation for rhinos in southern Africa is grim indeed.
Bayer CEO Marjin Dekkers: Natco Pharma Ltd. (NTCPH) applied directly to India’s patents office and was awarded the nation’s first compulsory license in March 2012 to make a copy of.
I know it doesn't seem that way right now for many of us in the east, but the climate continues to warm. 2013 was the 4th warmest year on record. Each of the top 10 is since 1998. The last year with temperatures below the...
I was feeling pretty hopeless about the forthcoming Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn, which challenges the constitutionality of states signing closed shop contracts with public sector unions. If.
Free trade agreements are so bipartisan now that even a large number of liberals support them. But free trade agreements and the resultant fully mobile capital unhinged to states has.
I may not have any boxing cats for you tonight. And I may not have any firefighting cats either. Or any LOL-style cat photos from the 1870s. But I do have a picture of a cat in a reinforced cat carrier during World War II....
Why doesn't West Virginia have decent environmental regulations? Because the state legislature has to approve each one! West Virginia imposes an unusual hurdle for its Department of Environmental Protection: Regulations.
As another oil train is dangling over a railroad bridge in Philadelphia, some wonder whether pipelines or trains are better for transporting oil. The answer from available evidence in the.
Time to avoid Frosted Flakes and Fruit Loops, since Kellogg's has locked out the workers making the cereal at its Memphis factory and instead bused in scabs through an Ohio unionbusting company. Bradshaw says the lockout is part of a plan to make Kellogg union-free....
A last point on Richard Sherman, from Greg Howard, who places the reaction to Sherman in the context of American racial tropes: When you're a public figure, there are rules..
Some late Georges Méliès this week, from 1912