Month: June 2014

http://nyti.ms/1r2MIBN Two years ago Kansas embarked on a remarkable fiscal experiment: It sharply slashed income taxes without any clear idea of what would replace the

http://nyti.ms/1qRBiks AN insidious trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experienced shared growth after World War II began to

http://nyti.ms/1lf0KbH One of my 11-year-old twin daughters recently came home from school distraught. When I asked why, she lifted her foot.  There was dog poop

http://nyti.ms/1qKX7lI WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court issued a unanimous rebuke to President Obama on Thursday, saying he had overreached in issuing recess appointments during brief

http://nyti.ms/1qI4A4P TIntense exercise changes the body and muscles at a molecular level in ways that milder physical activity doesn’t match, according to an enlightening new

http://www.newsledge.com/coming-collapse-oceans-risk-overfishing-pollution-7357 COMING COLLAPSE. OCEANS AT RISK FROM OVERFISHING AND POLLUTION The Global Ocean Commission is out with a scathing report on the state of our

http://nyti.ms/1pZwB83 There’s no escaping the conclusion that the stock market is not a level playing field where all investors, large and small, have an equal

http://nyti.ms/1rsFXXB More than a million homes and businesses along the nation’s coasts could flood repeatedly before ultimately being destroyed. Entire states in the Southeast and

The Sunni rebellion in Iraq: Desperate odds | The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21604551-titanic-forces-are-pulling-iraq-apart-best-way-avoid-years-bloodshed-hold-it Desperate odds Leaders The Sunni rebellion in Iraq Titanic forces are pulling Iraq apart.

http://nyti.ms/1mckUIl On Sunday Henry Paulson, the former Treasury secretary and a lifelong Republican, had an Op-Ed article about climate policy in The New York Times.