By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – After spending much of the spring and summer in Shenandoah National Park, I pulled into the nation’s capital on Thursday and camped in a friend’s driveway near the Potomac River for the night — only to wake up Friday morning and see a misleading ad campaign on NBC’s…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Americans With Postgraduate Degrees Report Edge in Lifelong Learning, Overall Well-Being
By Brandon Busteed and Jessica Stutzman – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans with an education beyond an undergraduate degree show a higher level of well-being than those with less education, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject, which found that 74 percent of adults in the U.S with graduate degrees say that they learn…
Visiting Yellowstone National Park
Democratic Party Reclaims Edge in Favorable Ratings as Republicans Drop
By Andrew Dugan WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the 2016 presidential race increasingly dominates political news, Gallup is now reporting that the Democratic Party has regained it historical edge over the Republican Party in favorability ratings, a fact which may have implications for the White House race. As of the latest public opinion poll on the…
NASA Satellite Camera Provides ‘EPIC’ View of Earth
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. The color images of Earth from NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) are generated by combining three separate images to create a photographic-quality image. The camera takes…
How to Disrupt the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
By Robert Reich – President Obama is said to be considering an executive order requiring federal contractors to disclose their political spending. He should sign it immediately. But he should go further and ban all political spending by federal contractors that receive more than half their revenues from government. Ever since the Supreme Court’s shameful…
NASA’s New Horizons Reaches Pluto
By Glynn Wilson – After a decade-long journey through the solar system, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto on Tuesday, making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth. The craft passed 7,750 miles above the surface of the dwarf planet, roughly the distance from New…
BP Set To Pay Largest Environmental Fine in US History for Gulf Oil Disaster
By Dominic Rushe – British Petroleum has agreed to pay a record environmental fine of $18.7 billion to settle legal actions brought by the U.S. and five Gulf states over the fatal Gulf of Mexico oil disaster of 2010. The U.S. Department of Justice, along with the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida,…