Ultimately, critics say, the initiatives lack the money needed to do things like make school lunches healthier or get rid of subsidies in corn syrup production.
Bill McKibben, TomDispatch.com. September 16, 2010.
The White House seems to have decided that solar panels on the roof would be ammo for Fox News: an association with Jimmy Carter that's the electoral equivalent of cooties.
Omar Khadr, who has spent his entire adult life at Guantanamo, was threatened with rape by U.S. interrogators upon his capture more than seven years ago.
Arizona's new anti-immigrant law finds echos in the anti-gay laws of the past. It's time for immigration and LGBT activists to step up for each others' causes.
Official visits are important to Haitians but the question remains: what does a serious recovery plan for Haiti really look like, and how can the Haitian Diaspora play a role?
A new regulation would force employers to identify when a workplace-related injury is caused by repetitive stress. The Chamber of Commerce says it'll cost employers millions.
Confusion and delays have plagued the administration's loan modification program, causing homeowners to fall behind on mortgage payments, risking foreclosure.
Thanks to behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Obama administration, a bipartisan majority has approved legislation that seems to abandon hope of reining in the Patriot Act.
"It remains a fact that the American public buys big, high consumption cars," GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said this week, adding it's "wrong to hope that Americans will massively rush to economical vehicles."
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington accuses the Obama administration of adopting the same lack of transparency of which Bush was often accused.
