Midwest farmers douse their fields in chemicals as insects grow resistant to Bt Corn – Sarah Lazare, staff writer Pesticides Poured on Illinois Cornfield (Photo: Fig and Sage) Pesticide use is skyrocketing across the Midwestern U.S. corn belt, as biotech companies like
Draft legislative language released by the House Social Security Subcommittee last night would cut benefits for millions of middle-class and poor Americans still struggling in this economy by adopting a new formula to calculate cost of living adjustments. Read more about the
The Supreme Court’s Shelby ruling aids a Republican plan to win more elections without winning support from more voters. — by Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins Voting rights are under attack again — this time it’s the Supreme Court’s turn.
Currently, there are twenty-nine Republi-Nazis in the US House who have proposed that only certain individuals, one man and one woman, are worthy of the pursuit of happiness using a contract of marriage: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This joint resolution may be
Help make the money in politics more transparent. Please sign this petition to ensure 501c4 organizations must devote their efforts “exclusively” to social welfare. That would force organizations like FreedomWorks, Crossroads, CrossroadsGPS, and yes, OFA (Organizing For America into tax-exempt categories where
On July 1st, student loan rates are set to double, which spells dire consequences for our nation’s future. But it’s not just students, or even young adults who suffer from this debt crisis, but the economy as a whole! Find out how
Alberta, Canada has averaged two crude oil spills every day for the past 37 years — and that doesn’t even take into account spills of other types of toxic materials. Is the Obama administration willing to let the same thing happen right
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I certainly hope that Representative Mark Amodei and Representative Joe Heck made a call to their insurance agents and purchased personal liability insurance for Tar Sands oil spills, because today the voted FOR passage of HR3, the Northern Route Approval Act, legislation introduced by Rep.
We deserve a country where our elected officials are not bought and paid for by big corporations. But the Citizens United vs. FEC Supreme Court decision overturned over a century of precedent and opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate money
