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July 6, 2005 - Given the Bush Administration's inaction on global warming -- his belated acknowledgement this week that human pollution may be a problem notwithstanding -- one has to look for hopeful signs elsewhere that lawmakers take this issue seriously.

July 6, 2005 - Think Progress has a short but important post up that goes hand-in-hand with Bill Towe's piece below arguing for a negotiated withdrawal from Iraq:

July 6, 2005 - Finding a way to end the Iraq war remains one of the biggest question marks on the progressive political landscape. There's a growing realization among progressives that Iraq remains the unsettled issue of the moment -- with the price tag and body count spiraling upward on a daily basis -- yet there's nothing even approaching consensus about what to do about it.

July 5, 2005 - Facing South and Southern Exposure contributor Sean Reilly has an excellent piece in the Mobile Register about how Republicans are more and more disregarding their own rhetoric about states' rights.

July 5, 2005 - As you probably heard, Richard Scrushy was last week found not guilty of criminal charges in the billion-dollar HealthSouth accounting fraud scandal. Scrushy, feeling vindicated, has said he would like to work again at the company he founded.

July 5, 2005 - A big congrats to Al McSurely, local civil rights lawyer and long-time friend of the Institute for Southern Studies, for recently winning the national NAACP's William Robert Ming Advocacy Awar

July 5, 2005 - Another material girl turns to mysticism: Katherine Harris joins Madonna as a Kabbalah enthusiast.