Obama's decision to not implement stricter clean air standards might be the final blow to anyone who had hopes for him as an environmental president. While he campaigned on promoting clean energy and fighting climate change, he's had to scale much of that back in...
Author: Erik Loomis
Like most of New England outside of Massachusetts, Vermont has a very weak history of prominent politicians. I believe the state has contributed all of 1 person to a cabinet.
This weekend begins another college football season. There are lots of you who hate college football. And there's good reason to do so. The NCAA is a hopeless organization, measuring.
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real issue in American history. John Svan was a Finnish immigrant to the United States. He...
As will become even clearer over time as I continue to write here, I can be pretty obsessive about things. One of those things is museums. Museums really affect me.
Professors and students at Southwestern University in Texas, where I taught for 3 years, have developed an interesting study that was recently presented at the American Sociological Association and covered.
A lot of books about environmental problems tend to follow a pattern that looks something like this: 1. Talk about how screwed up everything is, going into detail about a variety of different specific issues. 2. Interview people working on new technologies that could help...
Adam Gopnik is upset that his Cape Cod vacation got interrupted by a storm that didn't live up to the worst case scenario: Obviously, this was a big storm with.
You know what I didn't grow up with in Oregon? Hurricanes. Or tornadoes. Or floods. Or droughts. Or blizzards. Or below zero temperatures. Just soft rain, fog, and summer sun..
So the Drive-By Truckers have released a greatest hits album, although they've never had a hit per se. I'm not quite sure what the market is for this. They are a band that you need to buy the album to get the point, they don't...
Great little piece in the Times on the Los Angeles River. The L.A. River has been forgotten about for most of Los Angeles' history, and certainly since the city stole.
As a man trying to raise his child as a vegetarian, David Sirota dislikes fake meat products: ...the next time you go shopping, imagine what a kid gleans from veggie.