Turks have been taking to the street since Thursday across the country to protest the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after local protests in Istanbul unleashed wider discontent. Turkey is a secular state, but many think Erdogan and his AK Party are turing into autocrats dedicated to “Islamicizing” the country. Today the protests […]

Via Lawyers, Guns & Money, our eyes were drawn to a story out of Missouri, where a judge ruled that a mining corporation in the throes of bankruptcy proceedings could cancel out its pension and retirement obligations to 20,000 workers and stop paying into the union pension fund as early as July 1. The details […]

In 2000, the British newspaper The Independent ran an article about the end of snow, quoting one of the world’s more prominent climate scientist like so: According to Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become […]

When people think of Sonoma County’s beautiful and lucrative wine country, they likely think of endless vineyards, rolling hills and the wealthy elite there to enjoy it. They probably don’t think of miles and miles of decrepit roads with potholes so many and massive that bikers and drivers can barely avoid accidents. But as Reuters […]