Via News Unfiltered, My Good Deed—a social action campaign started by 9-11 survivors and their family and friends—is asking both candidates to temporarily suspend their campaigns on 9-11 and obser
Foreign Policy and the Center for American Progress have released their authoritative Terrorism Index, a survey of 100 bipartisan foreign policy experts to determine the direction of U.S.
Writing from Nevada, site of the National Clean Energy Summit, Alex Bandza reports on Bill Clinton's remarks about charting a clean energy future:According to Clinton, energy is at the heart of ec
On Day 1, the new President should create a Department of the Environment. Most advanced nations have a ministry or department of the environment. We have the only the EPA, and many environmental issues are split between various program areas in different departments: Interior, Agriculture, Energy, etc. With a fully functional Department of the Environment, we can streamline environmental decision-making and demonstrate to the world that it is an issue we deem worthy of a cabinet-level position.
As I watch debates on illegal immigration, I can't help but notice that nobody has considered the real problem. We get so focused on why people want to come to our country that we forget about why people leave their own. On Day One, the new President should develop an approach to Latin America that focuses on improving democracy, governance and wealth distribution in those countries, because we should know that most people would rather not leave their homeland if they didn't need to.
Public transit in most parts of the United States is abysmal. On Day One, the next president should start an initiative to help smaller cities get funding to build or improve public transit systems. This will help alleviate the massive traffic problems faced in so many places, reduce dependence on oil, reduce drunk driving problems, create a stronger sense of community among strangers, and help to alter the outdated patterns of development that are killing our country's natural beauty.
On Day 1, the next president should demonstrate the political will to create the energy revolution that this world needs. He or she should take steps to reduce and eventually eliminate the nation's dependency on oil. If this isn't done, we'll all find ourselves in big trouble a few years down the road. In this way, the president can demonstrate the kind of courage and leadership that we constantly say we have, and our country can prove its benevolence to the planet.
