This blog was written by Marylee Or, Executive Director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network. This week I was part of a big group of concerned Gulf Coast residents who put an oil polluter on notice. After the BP oil disaster began to hit our shores last summer, we’ve paid more attention to...

As you may have seen on the news recently, the Horn of Africa is in the midst of a devastating famine. I recently had the opportunity to travel to Da’daab, refugee camps in eastern Africa where some 440,000 people are living with around 1,000 arriving each day, although they were built for fewer...

For a long time – even before some of the current crop of presidential candidates began accusing America’s most successful public program of being nothing more than a “ Ponzi scheme ” – the national conversation about “fixing” Social Security has centered around cutting benefits or raising the...

The boldest attack on the Denver Paid Sick Leave Voter Initiative isn’t from the Chamber of Commerce. With large majorities supporting the November 2011 ballot measure, opponents know they have to do more than simply argue against the common sense notion that people shouldn’t go to work sick. They...