Americans don’t know what to think about climate change anymore. A few years ago, the public more or less trusted the science that said human activity was raising global temperatures, but now that Congress and the Obama administration have hemmed and hawed about climate issues, we’re not longer so sure. Forty-eight percent of Americans—more of us [...]

This post first appeared on Food Politics. I wasn’t planning to make a big deal of the recall of hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) - and the more than 100 products containing this flavor ingredient in the United States and in Canada – because the FDA seems on the job and nobody is getting sick (as far [...]

Apparently Americans are transfixed by the reality show Undercover Boss, a show in which a boss goes “undercover” to find out what average employees’ lives are like on the job. In one show, a boss finds out that a woman who works on a garbage truck has to pee in a cup because the job [...]

On the same day that President Obama was holding a series of meetings with lawmakers and community leaders about moving immigration reform legislation forward, his administration was sending a very different signal.  Just up the road in Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties in Maryland, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were conducting immigration raids on [...]

This post first appeared on Think Progress. This week, Christian religious leaders have been criticizing Fox News host Glenn Beck for his controversial remarks that churches that promote social and economic justice are somehow dangerous. “If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish,” said Beck. Progressive Christian group Sojourners has [...]

As noted cultural theorist Stuart Hall suggested, “race is the modality in which class is lived.” Ultimately, race (with its history, burdens, triumphs and tragedies) is the ether that we all breath, and the sea in which we swim. Thus, it manifests itself in social interactions both large and small. I don’t often solicit advice from [...]

By Robert Greenwald When I first heard the title of Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, I laughed out loud. I already felt Michael was on to something. And then, the economy collapsed. A decade of wealth, gone. The words “economic depression” dancing around the edges of news stories. I really knew he was onto [...]

This post was co-written by Mary Anne Hitt, deputy director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. There is nothing clean about destroying homes and communities to get coal out of the ground. Mountaintop removal coal mining is a dirty secret in our nation’s energy supply. More than 470 mountains in Appalachia have been destroyed by [...]

by Alana Yu-lan Price (crossposted from Tikkun Daily) The rush and anonymity of city life draws us apart, even as it draws us together. Jammed in the bus and streaming through the street, millions of strangers cross paths without hearing each other’s stories. Those who do exchange a word or a glance often lose each other to [...]

[Note: I co-authored this post with Mason Tvert of SAFER. He submitted it to Huffington Post two days ago, but it has not been posted yet, so I thought I would post a version here.] A week ago, I blogged about MTV’s Real World program and how it is almost a microcosm of society insofar as [...]