June 26, 2008 -
The latest Institute Index -- about deep budget cuts at newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. -- as featured in our e-newsletter Facing South. If you don't get Facing South, sign up now in the box in the upper right hand corner!
June 25, 2008 -
The U.S. Supreme Court has slashed the punitive damages awarded in the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster from $2.5 billion to $500 million.
June 25, 2008 -
Economists say that recessions hurt African-American and Latino workers the most because they are "the last hired and the first fired."
June 25, 2008 -
There's a long-standing debate in Democratic Party circles about how to win over "swing states."
June 24, 2008 -
In his briefing [PDF] to Congress yesterday on the climate crisis, NASA scientist James Hansen warned that our planet perches at a dangerous tipping point, with all the elements of cataclysm assembled: sea ice melting, ice sheets disintegrating, ecosystems collapsing.