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CHELSEA HARVEY Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that humans are responsible for climate change, debate still exists in the general public. In the United States alone, at least 15 states are currently governed by known climate deniers, and several states have taken measures to keep the...

One might call it drive-by snark. And, no, it doesn't pass for argument.

By Steve Neumann This Is Your Brain on Outrage: How Political Rhetoric Is Making Us Crazy Should we expect conservatives' big win on Tuesday to make them any less angry? Definitely not, and here's why. Photo Credit: PathDoc/Shutterstock.com November 8, 2014 | Now that the Republicans...

"Relatively minor"? Relative to what? A space elevator to the moon?

The alternative being what?

Democracy on the critical list: How do we escape this toxic political cycle? Will American politics ever break free from its "Groundhog Day" nightmare? Someday -- but it might not be pretty ANDREW O'HEHIR . . . Is there any plausible way out of this obsessive, recursive cycle, in which we can...

Death Panel By Brian Beutler Back in March 2011, when the biggest threats facing Obamacare were the Supreme Court and the 2012 elections, I argued that the demise of the Affordable Care Act would put people’s lives in immediate danger. At the time, the law had relatively few...

Actually the "foreign policy of interference" goes all the way back to the Spanish-American War. But is it in our genes? Or did we learn from our "mother" (Great Britain)?

Yep. That's the "superior brain" of which jem is so proud.

Along with the oil and gas industry.

The rightwing mindset: We’re afraid of enemies foreign and domestic and everything in between. Clinical paranoia has got nothing on us as a nation, we see enemies everywhere. We’re afraid we’ll get invaded. We’re afraid we’re being invaded right now. Hell, we’re afraid we’ve already been...

Democrats haven’t got anybody to blame but themselves and the sooner they start dealing with it, the sooner they’ll start winning again. Listen to me, listen good: Republicans and their Tea Party Berserkers, they didn’t win because they’ve got any big vision, because they’ve got some big grand...

Report card on Affordable Care Act's first year With the disastrous rollout of the nearly inoperable HealthCare.gov marketplace site, the Affordable Care Act seemed destined to be a train wreck. But on the eve of Obamacare's second open-enrollment period, which starts on Saturday, Nov. 15...

What program for the homeless?

Let's hear it for Florida . . . Chef, 90, faces jail, fines for feeding the homeless By Zachary Fagenson Arnold P. Abbott, president of the Maureen A. Abbott Love Thy Neighbor Fund, Inc. MIAMI (Reuters) - For decades, 90-year-old Arnold Abbott has hauled pans filled with roast chicken and...

"It would make Obama cry." —robocall to Kansas voters on why they should vote for Pat Roberts

Here Comes the Sun: America's Solar Boom, in Charts It's been a bit player, but solar power is about to shine. —By Tim McDonnell | Fri Nov. 7, 2014 6:30 AM EST Izu navi/Flickr Last week, an energy analyst at Deutsche Bank came to a startling conclusion: By 2016, solar power will be as cheap or...

Our time together is always a pleasure.

He won't see an immigration reform bill regardless of what he does or doesn't do.