News & Politics

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

I would like to share a group I stumbled across last Spring. A friend sent a YouTube video (Africa and in English) that totally...

Corporate "personhood" is endangering our democracy. Corporate lobbyists write many of our laws, not to benefit the American taxpayer, but for the benefit of the big corporations and banks.

This is a invitation for everyone to share their hometown newspaper’s Editorials. Lets see what is of concern where you live, what is their take...

Government employees are off for the weekend, so it's a good time to check out what they were up to last week. While the MSM...

Any sense of how the strike is going?

Are you an intellectual snob, and turn your nose up and close your mind and ears when it comes to Sarah Palin? Do you think...

...but, how do I stop the comment feeds to my e-mail? I dearly love all your posts, and I especially dearly love reading them...

A recent and incredibly relevant piece of journalism was published at CNN that I believe has not garnered enough attention.  The single most powerful...

This isn’t terribly political, which I hope is OK for HuffNo Friday. It’s about the power of the written word; and how I believe...