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Ellen Miller
Ellen Miller interview: Show Me the Money, elections 2003-Ellen Miller is currently publisher of the online opinion journal TomPaine.com. She was the founder and former director of both the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks electoral spending, and Public Campaign, which pushes for campaign finance reform. She has given careful attention to the role of money in the political process—what she calls "the elephant in the living room"—for nearly 20 years. As she puts it, "Money is access. Money is political power. Those who give money get more than good government in return."
Save the Earth, Not Just Souls
As a kid I was forced to go to Sunday school, where the second half of the hour was sometimes spent in church itself. My friends and I delighted in sitting in the balcony and making up our own silly words as we sang along to hymns like "Go Down Moses and Let My People Go." I was also once sent out into the hall for sketching a funny picture of a big-nosed, toothless man with a cleft chin when we were all asked to draw what we thought God looked like.
The Nuclear Phoenix
The Bush Administration is Pushing Ahead with a Full-Scale Revival of Atomic Power The last time anyone ordered a new nuclear power plant in the United States was in 1978, but if you think that means nukes are dead forever, guess again. The Bush Administration and the nuclear industry are making an intense push to […]
This Land is Their Land
How to Make Your Property Wildlife-Friendly GET COZY WITH SOY Looking for a safer way to scent your home? Clark Valley Soy Company is a small Minnesota business that produces all-natural, hand-made candles. The candles contain 95 percent soybean wax in place of the conventional paraffin, which, according to the American Lung Association, releases harmful […]
America’s Troubled Waters: Can They be Saved?
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Power Plays
Fuel cells are reaching the market, in what could be a $100 billion industry.
Gorillas of the Missed
Traveling with a Cause in a Dangerous World The Congo and its neighboring mountains were never a travel destination for the faint of heart, but the chance to see gorillas in their native mists has long been a powerful lure. Visitors flooded into neighboring Uganda until this past March, when 14 tourists were abducted and […]
Global Decline of Sharks Underscores Poor Health of World’s Oceans
In yet another example of the dire state of the world’s oceans, the World Conservation Union announced last week that it will be adding 10 species of sharks and rays to its global "Red List" of endangered species. Researchers cite overfishing throughout the world’s oceans as well as soaring demand for shark fin in Asia as the primary culprits in the global decline of shark populations.
British Scientists Scold U.S. on Rejection of Kyoto
British scientists attended last week’s American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Seattle with an agenda: They want the Bush administration to reconsider its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.