Low oil prices are leading the main oil companies to lose interest in opening new strip mines for tar sands in Alberta.

It is beneficial that the low price discourages investment, but in order to lower consumption we need a high price.

How "Family Values" Conservatives Are Hurting Families.

Texas Republicans want to permit doctors to conceal from a pregnant women the fact that the fetus has an abnormality, so that she won't get an abortion.

The same Republicans wish to cut state support for mothers that are not affluent, including any that are tricked in the future into giving birth to a seriously disabled child.

I figure that "family values" means "spread adversity in the name of the 'strong father'", and it is really just an excuse to be mean.

Pruitt used a private email address to talk with lobbyists, and lied to the Senate about this in his confirmation hearing.

SCROTUS will stand firm in Pruitt's defense, on the grounds that this sort of thing is wrong only when Democrats do it.

A Chinese lithium mine in Tibet is poisoning the rivers.

The troll has taken drone bombardment of Yemen to a new level.