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The Outrage of the Week Mar. 15, 2025
They call it "Cancer Alley." It's an 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects Baton Ro... Read More
Why Big Corporations Get Special Tax Breaks and You Don't Apr. 03, 2024
Free market ideologues fabricate some of the most preposterous yarns trying to justify their asserti... Read More
Climate Change Means More Heat Waves Are Coming. For Now, Here's How To Cool It. Aug. 25, 2023
Hot days in August are nothing new to St. Louis, of course. But with the current heat wave baking th... Read More
Donated Blood or an Organ? Police Shouldn't Have Easy Access to Your DNA Jun. 19, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
In 2015, following a DUI arrest, Ian Mitcham consented to having a blood sample collected to test fo... Read More
Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy Apr. 18, 2023
Every schoolkid knows — or used to know — that the United States has three branches of g... Read More
Biden's Fascistic EV Edict Apr. 14, 2023
President Joe Biden is set to "transform" and "remake" the entire auto industry — "first with ... Read More
Government Action or Inaction Kills People; What Do You Call That Crime? Mar. 29, 2023
When Stephen Paddock started firing an assault rifle into a crowd at a Las Vegas concert in October ... Read More
Action on Climate Change, in Spite of Republicans Aug. 17, 2022
Riley Moore, the state treasurer of West Virginia, is fed up with people who worry about climate cha... Read More
Biden Has No Right To Declare a National Climate Emergency Jul. 22, 2022
The Washington Post reported Monday night that President Joe Biden is "considering whether to declar... Read More
A Summer Full of Sadness and Dark Signs Jul. 13, 2022
You know the moments that mean nothing will ever be the same? Like the loss of a beloved friend, unb... Read More
Separation of Powers and the Regulatory State Jul. 09, 2022
It was a strange coincidence that Justice Stephen Breyer's last day on the court, the final day of t... Read More
How To Regulate a Chemical so Popular it's in People's Blood? Oct. 26, 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency has launched a welcome effort to determine the extent of health ... Read More
Mislabeling Plastic as Recyclable Defeats the Purpose and Damages the Planet Sep. 17, 2021
A bill passed last week by the California Legislature would ban manufacturers from putting the trian... Read More
Biden Seeks Compromise On Trump's Damaging Policies. The GOP Should Listen. Jun. 28, 2021
The Biden administration and its Republican adversaries are gearing up for an epic showdown over env... Read More
Needed From Democrats: A Realistic Case for Optimism Apr. 03, 2021
The differences between an ideologue — someone who subscribes completely to a political ideolo... Read More
Trump's Bass-Ackward Government Aug. 19, 2020
Gosh, President Donald Trump has really been busy lately: busy assailing Sen. Kamala Harris as "nast... Read More
Dicamba Ruling Marks Another Trump Administration Letdown for Farmers Jun. 12, 2020
A federal court has come down hard on the Environmental Protection Agency for allowing farmers to co... Read More
Administration Kowtowing to Industry Sustains Trajectory Toward Climate Disaster Dec. 11, 2019
Nations around the world struck a deal four years ago to confront climate change by reducing greenho... Read More
Trump's Need to Destroy Meets the Environment Sep. 24, 2019
One word best describes Donald Trump's environmental policy: sick. The president has an obsessive ur... Read More
Will Congress Have to Learn to Write Laws Again? Sep. 20, 2019
Congress needs to learn to do a better job of writing laws. That's my conclusion after reviewing the... Read More
