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Andrew Dessler: Science and the Politics of Climate Change
An expert on how clouds relate to a warming planet, Texas A&M scholar Andrew Dessler became a target of climate science critics following an interview he gave to The New York Times. "Science is what science is," Dessler says. "Nature doesn’t care what your political persuasion is."
October 23, 2012
How Does Climate Change Factor into Decision 2012?
Last election season, presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain agreed that climate change was a critical issue demanding urgent attention. Four years later, both candidates Obama and Mitt Romney barely discuss climate change.
October 23, 2012
Timeline: The Politics of Climate Change
For more than three decades, the politics surrounding climate change in the United States have been characterized by an often deep partisan divide.
October 23, 2012
Beyond U.S., Climate Politics Stir Parallel Battles
A bruising fight over cap-and-trade legislation in Australia stands as a reminder that despite broad scientific consensus on global warming, an unsettled political debate over the issue is not unique to the U.S.
October 23, 2012
How Al Gore Galvanized the Climate Change Movement -- On Both Sides
When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, "An Inconvenient Truth" -- the blockbuster documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's crusade to draw attention to the threat of global warming -- received three standing ovations.
October 23, 2012
What's Changed for Immigrants in Detention?
After abuses were uncovered, the Obama administration called for an overhaul of the immigrant detention system. But how much has changed?
October 22, 2012
"Dark Money" Group Central to Citizens United May Have Misled IRS
A western nonprofit that played a key role in freeing corporate spending on elections nationwide appears to have misled the IRS when it applied for the tax-exempt status that shields its donors from being publicly disclosed.
October 22, 2012
Aspen Dental Facing Class-Action Lawsuit
The suit accuses one of the nation's largest corporate dental chains of illegally owning dental practices and of deceiving patients.
October 19, 2012
Should Campaign Donors Be Disclosed?
A new Marketplace story asks whether anonymity is detrimental or essential to the political process.
October 19, 2012
9/11 Mastermind Harangues U.S. Gov't at Guantanamo Hearing
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said the government stretches the definition of "national security" to justify killing and torture.
October 17, 2012
Court Ruling Could Undermine Charges Against 9/11 Defendants
An appeals court in Washington, D.C. yesterday handed down a decision that could undermine some of the charges in the Guantanamo military commission trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants.
October 17, 2012
Is This Man To Blame for the Attack on Pakistani Schoolgirl?
As the world closely watches the fate of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl fighting for her life after being gunned down by the Taliban last week, the pressure is on Pakistan to bring her attackers to justice.
October 16, 2012