A larger narrative on lobbying reform and corporate responsibility has to emerge from this string of recent mining disasters. Corporate influence on public policy has undermined safety standards in multiple industries, and now very publicly in mining. Finally the Senate has declared they’ll hold hearings on the Crandall Canyon Mining Disaster and require co-owners Robert […]
An unpleasant surprise awaited me on CNN.com today. “at least 25 percent of doctors are women, up from only 8 percent in 1970. By 2010, women are expected to make-up one-third of the profession…What’s more, the pay gap between men and women is decreasing — women were earning 81 percent as much as their male […]
Really, really exciting. Despite needing to make minor corrections — the article is now updated on Campus Progress — I got linked to by TAPPED, at the American Prospect. Awesome.
Progressive action on reproductive rights should extend beyond the U.S. American progressives’ fight for reproductive justice doesn’t begin in Tennessee’s state legislature and end in the South Dakota ballot box. Domestic abortion bans are only one part of the ongoing international battle for reproductive freedom. But while American progressives have built an effective movement around […]
Alito has, until this point, flown under the radar. That means not that he does not pose a threat, that he has not wrought havoc upon our liberties, but only that we have not been paying enough attention. For instance, we were lax when he upheld the strip search of a 10-year-old girl, when he […]