Arjun Makhijani long ago left behind any willingness to countenance nuclear energy as a positive good. He helped to give birth to the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in 1987 and has led the organization since then. He and the group pointedly evidenced the multiple intersections of weapons and reactors, as well as the multiple drawbacks of these mutually interdependent technologies.

Editorial Book Review: “The beauty of Boiling Mad is that it’s room-temperature calm. With fresh and surprising reporting, Kate Zernike cuts through the hype on both sides to show the Tea Party as it really is, not as partisans depict it. It’s a complete, balanced, incisive and important account of a reactionary movement that’s changing [...]

I’ve said goodbye to a champion of logic, Christopher Hitchens, who has cancer. “Hitler’s Auschwitz & Bush’s Abu Ghraib epitomize Christianity. Christians are cowardly hypocrites who travel in packs like wild dogs, but are without the loyalty. Islamists are extremely dangerous fools because, unlike the Christians, they believe the dogma. Judaism is the study of [...]

Alabama Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber is encouraging his fellow tea party activists to “gather your armies” against President Barack Obama — with a campaign ad that twice shows a hand fidgeting next to a Revolutionary War-era pistol. [ READ MORE ] Wonkette: Meet Rick Barber, your patriotic candidate for Congress from Alabama’s (we don’t [...]

Richard Dawkins calls those who don’t subscribe to evolution ignorant, fatuously ignorant and ridiculous. Dawkins has come to realize that a disturbingly large percentage of the American and British public don’t share his enthusiasm for evolution. In fact, they actively abhor the idea, since it seems to contradict the Bible and diminish the role of [...]