Month: December 2009

…Jerusalem must be the joint capital of Israel and Palestinian, and more. Where no US president including Obama has dared to tread, today, in a follow up to an earlier draft by Sweden which holds the current EU presidency,...

Brazil, a much poorer country than the United States is working now for a sustainable future by trying to preserve as much of the its massive rain forest as it can: The aging mayor of this crammed jungle city in the heart of the...

Brian Beutler of TPMDC has the details of what is supposed to be the grand compromise that will allow Harry Reid to pass a health care reform bill through the Senate at the 60 vote threshold. Beutler’s report is more...

Props to Matt Viser and Martin Finucane of the Boston Globe for inserting the following voter reaction (to Martha Coakley winning today’s Democratic primary to replace Edward Kennedy) in their election night coverage....

My guardian angel is telling me that those people who don’t believe in anthropogenic climate change … The 36 percent [of Americans] who believe in human-caused climate change is fewer than the number of Americans who...