Opinions

While the Patriot Act has raised fears about government spying on ordinary citizens, the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying has received much less attention.

There’s something deeply wrong in all of Corporate America. Year after year, through good years and bad, America’s top executives continue to pull in compensation packages that fly in the face of reason — and slap in the face everyone who doesn't sit in an executive suite.

Food riots are erupting all over the world. To prevent them and to help people afford the most basic of goods, we need to understand the causes of skyrocketing food prices and correct the policies that have fueled them.

Congress already has authorized billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded subsidies for farmers who grow corn and the producers who turn it into the fuel that's pumped into your car.

Check out this opinion by Joseph Romm on Salon.com

"I don't worry about the earth. I'm pretty certain the earth will survive the worst we can do to it. I'm very certain the earth doesn't worry about us

Citizens all over the country continue to push for bold and comprehensive national legislation on climate change commensurate with the science. The President's plan is just too little, too late.

The Bush administration has a well-known aversion to regulating big business. As it turns out, it is also reluctant to prosecute corporations that break the law. Federal prosecutors have been regularly offering settlements to companies for wrongdoing that, in previous administrations, would likely have led to criminal charges. It is another disturbing example of how this administration has taken the justice out of the Justice Department

No institution has killed American shareholder democracy more than the mutual fund

To prevent severe climate change, greenhouse gas emissions must stabilize in less than 10 years.

Right now, our energy policy is subsidizing the disease and starving the cure.