Race Isn't the Reason for Obama's Slide
McCain's inch ahead of Obama has little to do with race. It has everything to do with a candidate who can't decide whether he's Change Obama or Conservative Obama.
McCain's inch ahead of Obama has little to do with race. It has everything to do with a candidate who can't decide whether he's Change Obama or Conservative Obama.
Carl Pope | Posted 08.20.2008 | Green
It's getting hard to follow the proposals for a clean energy future without a scorecard, so here's my summary of the big ideas I've heard brought to the table.
Washington Post | Shalaigh Murray | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Al Gore will have a prime speaking slot at the Democratic convention, sharing the bill with Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday night, Democratic sources sa...
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
Be thankful for radio silence I guess when other candidates for VP like Daschle and Bayh are getting phone calls saying, "Sorry....but we look forward to working with you in many other ways in the coming years."
Norman MacAfee | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Broken record here. The more I think about it, the more Al Gore seems the only really interesting choice for Barack Obama's vice presidential choice. ...
Kathryn Kolbert | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
Lieberman arrived on the national stage as the running mate of Gore, whose campaign stressed support of the people over the powerful. We can't afford to have another VP who would undermine the progressive movement from within.
Cathy Zoi | Posted 08.14.2008 | Green
America's three great national challenges -- our economy, national security and climate change -- can all be addressed by switching to clean energy.
Josh Dorner | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green
Carbon County, in a poetic turn, is now set to host the second largest solar facility in the nation.
James Pinkerton | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
The world might be moving away from communism, but it is not moving toward freedom -- and certainly not carbon reduction.
Cathy Zoi | Posted 08.11.2008 | Green
Meeting this challenge will deliver the affordability, stability and confidence our economy needs, as well as a healthy environment, while generating millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
Andrew Winston | Posted 08.10.2008 | Green
The big trio of societal forces - government, business, and consumers - all need to change to tackle something as large and thorny as climate change. No segment can do it alone.
Men's Health | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living
Success in fields ranging from soccer to bass playing comes just as much from perseverance (which is largely about rebounding after taking hits) as ...
Tony Sachs | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
The odds may be against us, but with a little luck and a lot of good old-fashioned stupidity, we can get to the promised land of failure once again.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.06.2008 | Media
When McCain gets regularly portrayed in the press as a serial liar the way Al Gore was in 2000, then he can complain about getting bad press.
Judah Freed | Posted 08.04.2008 | Home
I want the Democrats to win the White House and to make the next Supreme Court appointments and that's why Obama has got to put Gen. Wesley Clark in the second spot on the ticket.
Reuters | Jasmin Melvin | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
The head of a group founded by Al Gore told lawmakers on Thursday that the former vice president's goal of generating all U.S. electricity from clean,...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Pickens says President Bush's offshore drilling push is "not going to fix our problem. I don't call that a plan. You've got to cut imports."
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
Bodman's letter criticizing Friedman gives a frightening picture of this administration and the Department of Energy's priorities.
Brian Keane | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
Everyone knows clean and renewable energy is good for the environment, good for public health and good for national security, but beyond that, most folks simply don't think the stuff works.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business
What is less well recognized is that in response to the economy, Americans are doing a number of things less as they strive to manage the heck out of a challenging situation.
Matthew Stein | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green
At the current price, a whopping $1.5 billion gets sent out of our country each and every day to keep America "well oiled."
Katie Halper | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Watch me desperately search for my caucus, for my voice, for my representation. Why are the Netroots excluding me? Why are they so hateful towards me and my people?
Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
Many people are talking about what VP choices await Barack Obama, but let's look one step further to Obama's Cabinet and whom he would put in charge of different areas of our country.
Debbie Cook | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green
If we fail to adapt intelligently to the post-CO2 era, the next few decades will see even higher energy costs -- leaving us with a ruined environment and a shattered economy, unable to face a future without fossil fuels.
Chuck Spinney | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
Almost 7 years after 9/11, bin Laden remains at large, the Taliban are growing stronger, and Afghanistan is sinking into a deepening quagmire that's spilling over into nuclear-armed Pakistan.
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics