Thursday, September 1, 2011

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Eat your spinach … or else.

You can plant supermarkets in nutritionally challenged neighborhoods -- in any neighborhoods, really -- but you can't make people love healthier fare like spinach (or broccoli). Many say the hell with it.

Conservatives flee from science Chapman: Conservatives flee from science

The 1980s and 1990s were prime time for environmental scares, many of which proved bogus. On one side were liberals, greens and professional alarmists who always assumed the worst. On the other side, many nonliberals chose to heed scientists who had studied the evidence. Time and again, the skeptics were right.

Is diplomacy in Libya delusional?

How much more death and destruction of Libyans is necessary to protect Libyans?

Today's columnists

This Labor Day we need marches, not parades, Robert Reich says

Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade.

News flash: Congresswoman has a spine

I am pleased to report the sighting of an artifact so rarely seen among Democrats that it has become the stuff of legend and conjecture, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. It is called a spine.


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