Canada geese swim past one of the cooling towers at the idle Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Hollywood, Ala., in 2006.

Associated Press

Right responses to warming

An editorial

The Governor's Task Force on Global Warming has produced a report that state Sen. Jeff Plale, D-Milwaukee, says "is not the end; it is the beginning." Fair enough: Let's begin. read story

recent columns
Bill Adair started PolitiFact.com -- a Web site that checks the accuracy of speeches, ads, quotes and other claims during presidential races -- after Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry was accused in 2004 of voting for bills to weaken the U.S. military.

Connie Schultz: Truth-O-Meter challenges ads

Connie Schultz

Bill Adair remembers the exact moment he decided that too much of the political coverage was failing the American public. read story

John Nichols: Obama should follow Feingold

John Nichols

Now that he is the presumptive nominee, Barack Obama is standing not with Russ Feingold, but with President Bush and the special interests Obama once denounced. read story

Paul C. Light: Shake up can 't-do government

Paul C. Light

Congress and the presidential candidates have yet to connect the dots: The next president will inherit what Alexander Hamilton called a "government ill executed." read story

Paul C. Light: Shake up can 't-do government

Paul C. Light

Congress and the presidential candidates have yet to connect the dots: The next president will inherit what Alexander Hamilton called a "government ill executed." read story

Selig S. Harrison: Al-Qaida affiliate gains strength in Bangladesh

Selig S. Harrison

While the CIA and the Pentagon search in vain for Osama bin Laden in the mountains of northwest Pakistan, an al-Qaida affiliate has been quietly building up terrorist bases in the jungles of Bangladesh under the protective aegis of a new military regime in Dhaka allied with Islamist forces. read story

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