Issues
Palin vs. Gore Climate Showdown
From FactCheck.org: "On Dec. 9, an op-ed by Sarah Palin on climate change ran in the Washington Post. Al Gore responded to Palin’s piece and made some fresh claims of his own later that day in an interview with MSNBC. We find that both engaged in some distortions and have been rightly called out by experts in the field." more »
Mass Layoffs & Psychological Effects
The Economic Policy Institute's Economic Snapshot for July 1, 2009 concerns employment: Mass layoffs at highest level since at least 1995, by Anna Turner and John Irons.
Mass layoffs — job cuts of 50 or more people by a single employer — are at th… more »
Will These Parents Destroy Your Family?
Couple by couple, family by family, gay men and lesbian women are settling down together and parenting children. And countless numbers, like our own daughter, want nothing more than to stop just living together and assume the rights and responsibilities of a legal marriage. more »
The Disturbing Afterlife of Discarded Digital Devices
"at an open-air market in Ghana, where hard drives from the United States and elsewhere are being resold, sometimes to criminal gangs who mine them for credit card data, Social Security numbers and other identifying information" more »
