The passing of the environmental torch between the Bush and Obama administrations became ever more evident last week when EPA head Lisa Jackson announced that carbon dioxide is now an official pollutant...
Len Downie, vice president at large and former executive editor of the Washington Post, spoke about “The Future of News” Tuesday at the Arrillaga Alumni Center. His talk was cosponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Stanford University Department of Communication.
The FDA, which regulates products worth more than $1 trillion -- a quarter of every consumer dollar -- has over the past two decades become a dangerous impediment to patients' getting the medicines they need...
Without any changes, every time we flip on a light switch or rev the engine, we’re one step closer to a world of floods, drought and pestilence, advocates of climatechange legislation warn...
Six months ago essentially all large American banks and many smaller ones received loans from the federal government to help shore up their capital base as they tried to weather the financial storm...
It is possible, though not very likely, that some of the huge sums the government is steering toward the marketplace will actually help generate creative, productive employment and, thereby, revive some measure of economic growth...
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