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The events of the past few days in Japan will provide many lessons about whether nuclear plants should operate in locations at risk of severe earthquakes, or whether we should have them at all. But the reality is that every form of energy we have relied upon over the past century presents risks. As tempting as it might be this week to eliminate nuclear as part of the future energy mix, that means eliminating a no-carbon fuel source that we may well need to stave off the slow motion disaster of climate change.
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I hear it in your voices and see it in your faces when you talk to me. Your fears about being able to retire comfortably and with dignity are weighing you down. It's hard to enjoy the present when you're worried about the future.
Democrats are pushing back on a few key issues, whatever their chances of legislative success happen to be -- the mortgage crisis, gay marriage, and taxing millionaires.
Connections between the Pentagon and the entertainment industry, first intensified in the 1980s, continue to embed militarism in seemingly non-political products like video games and action movies.
The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards set the first-ever national safeguards to limit power plant releases of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, making this is one of the largest steps to protect our kids from air pollution in a generation.
Why is the base defense budget higher than was projected and higher after Robert Gates made his reductions? The answer is simple. Most of the cuts he claimed credit for were not reductions.
There are plenty of ways to prevent wars, accidents, and unmitigated disasters. But what do we do about the disasters where really no one has done anything wrong?
Though a meltdown at a nuclear power plant would be disastrous, an even more urgent threat is posed by the possibility of a nuclear weapon or weapon-making material falling into the hands of terrorists.
Nuclear power is the only non-carbon energy source that has any hope of stemming the tide of oil and coal consumption. But it has its obvious inherent dangers. Japan uses because they have to. The same can be said for us.
Despite the fact very few student athletes ever have the opportunity to turn professional, the overwhelming time commitment leaves them with no way of generating any income. Here is a reasonable solution.
Recent and ongoing attacks on women's freedom and privacy by the anti-choice House leadership are so far-reaching and so extreme that they've been dubbed the "War on Women."
I met a woman who had been driven from any and all benefits that modern medicine might offer her by the cold and denigrating judgment offered her by almost every modern medical practitioner she had met.
Western universities are undoubtedly under pressure to find financial support, but this does not mean they should allow abusive and corrupt foreign dictators, officials or their families launder their images in exchange for money.
My Christian brothers and fellow social conservatives failed by adopting a narrow definition of values that centered almost exclusively on opposition to gay marriage and abortion to the exclusion of virtually everything else.
Compare the global response to what's happening today in Japan and Libya to last year's earthquake in rural Pakistan or the ongoing killings and famines that have taken over two million lives in eastern Congo.
I'll bet that if President Barack Obama had been with me on that trip to Chernobyl 24 years ago he wouldn't be as sanguine about the future of nuclear power as he was this week.
Profit-making corporations have every incentive to underestimate the probabilities of potential disasters and lowball the likely externalized harms. This is why it's necessary to have such things as government regulators.
There are hundreds of federal programs already identified across every government agency that overlap or are duplicative, wasting taxpayer dollars each year. Just eliminating these redundancies would save billions.
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