This week witnessed the 22nd APEC Summit unfold in Beijing. Leaders of the major Asian and Pacific powers converged to shape the region's economic and political future. Amid the lip service to hopes of greater prosperit...
America. We are on the cusp of war. With whom, you ask? The Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. The reason? The proposed extension of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would run through tribal lands. Tribal lead...
UPDATE: On Tuesday evening, the Keystone XL pipeline bill failed to break a Democratic filibuster in the Senate. The bill needed 60 votes to clear the procedural hurdle. It got 59. Expect the issue to return when the Republican Se...
In the United States we don't think too much about toilets. Sure, they're convenient...but an International Toilet Day? Ew. But hold it a second... Now, toilets might not be seeing the best parts of you , but some people are...
Eyebrows raised in excitement last week when Japan unveiled the world's fastest magnetic-levitation bullet train . But those eybrows didn't stay raised for long. They furled quickly on the sour news tha...
Could the Affordable Care Act be derailed by four words? We will soon know if the words “ established by the state ” are the last words on Obamacare. The Supreme Court will be taking up a challenge to the Act thi...
Gridlock. Ineffective. Disagreement. Inaction. Unpopular. Sounds like Congress to me! However on Wednesday after a flying pig sighting and a freezing temperatures in hell reported, Congress quickly agreed on something: we d...
You want a new car? You're a broke college kid, so, no doubt, you can't afford a new car. So what if you could get a new car for free by...voting in the next election? According to President Obama, you can do ju...
� 2100. According to a recent UN report that is the year we must end greenhouse gas emissions... Or else! Or Else? Or else we suffer irreversible consequences. Agriculturally devastating monsoons and the engulfment of coas...
What do we want? JUSTICE! When do we want it? NOW! Whose streets? OUR STREETS! Whose city? OUR CITY! No Justice? No peace! HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT. It was a loud nigh...
