Stories by Megan Tady
Megan Tady is a National Political Reporter for InTheseTimes.com. Previously, she worked as a reporter for the NewStandard, where she published nearly 100 articles in one year. Megan has also written for Clamor, CommonDreams, E Magazine, Maisonneuve, PopandPolitics, and Reuters.
A new technology to capture carbon from power plants and store it underground has been dubbed a miracle cure for global warming. But critics think it puts us in more danger.
Posted on Nov 24, 2007
A slow wheel is beginning to turn in Congress in favor of forcing Big Pharma to disclose the amount of change it's dropping into doctors' pockets.
Posted on Oct 11, 2007
How current policies favor giant shipping companies and agribusinesses over the starving populations they are supposed to serve.
Posted on Sep 18, 2007
A recent victory for coal plants in Texas is just another reminder of how "compromise" with polluters won't get the environmental movement anywhere.
Posted on Sep 3, 2007
In the battle over whether the people or corporations should control public water, residents of Stockton, Calif., won a huge victory.
Posted on Aug 4, 2007
A new report shows a dramatic increase in greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States since 1990.
Posted on Apr 16, 2007
While the U.S. government and some corporations are finally acknowledging global climate change, some critics say partnering with such forces may "tame" the movement's goals and strategies.
Posted on Mar 19, 2007
As the ice they depend on for their way of life melts away around them, indigenous people of the Arctic are taking a crack at Washington in international court.
Posted on Mar 5, 2007
Suspicious of government assurances that a planned desert explosion in Utah will not rekindle radioactive fallout from past events, Westerners and Native Americans want the plan halted.
Posted on Feb 10, 2007
Bayer CropScience kept it a secret that its genetically modified rice contaminated public food supplies. The government was only too happy to help.
Posted on Aug 30, 2006
Right now, there is no standardized federal preparedness plan for disabled people, so when a Katrina-level disaster strikes again, many will be left in the cold.
Posted on Aug 21, 2006
The IRS has announced a drastic cut in staff who audit the tax returns of the super-rich -- Bush's gift to his wealthy supporters.
Posted on Aug 2, 2006
All across the country, college students are being denied the right to vote in their adopted hometowns -- effectively banning them from local politics.
Posted on May 23, 2004
The Oregon Bus Project is the free-wheeling, grassroots-shaking, democracy-flouting, politically-charged answer to what a small group of progressive activists saw as a crisis in their state.
Posted on Apr 26, 2004
Janneth can never go home. She crossed the river between Mexico and Texas four years ago, a yellow brick road of raging water.
Posted on Oct 7, 2003
Day Eight of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride.
Posted on Oct 4, 2003
Empty promises from Senators Dick Durbin and Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Posted on Oct 3, 2003
Like many young people in the United States, Rafael is undocumented and not allowed to attend college because of his illegal status.
Posted on Oct 1, 2003
Day Three of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride.
Posted on Sep 30, 2003
Day Two of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride.
Posted on Sep 28, 2003
Day One of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride.
Posted on Sep 27, 2003
Four decades after the Freedom Rides of the 1960s, people are back on the buses to demand justice with the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride.
Posted on Sep 25, 2003
Day Four of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008
