Why China Could Turn Green
Austin Ramzy, Time Magazine
With the help of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Climate Group and philanthropic Chinese martial-arts star Jet Li’s One Foundation, China has been working to implement some pretty exciting green technologies including solar-powered street lamps. Small steps like these can help a green mindset become a priority [...]

Twenty-six Lies About H.R. 3200
FactCheck.org
The list of false claims circulating about H.R. 3200 are too many to count. FactCheck.org takes on a popular chain e-mail and its forty-eight assertions. They found that of these, twenty-six were lies, eighteen were misleading and the other four were actually true.
http://factcheck.org/2009/08/twenty-six-lies-about-hr-3200/

The Republican Death Machine
By Jacob Weisberg, Slate
This piece serves as an amazing supplement to my column on health care from yesterday. It details the ways in which Republicans are killing seniors in a myriad of ways that Democrats would never even dream of. These include the expiration of Chuck Grassley’s estate tax cuts (if you [...]

Till Debt Does Its Part
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
While deficit spending may be doing wonders in the short-term for getting the economy moving again, we’re mortgaging our future. Over the next decade, we will add an additional nine trillion dollars to the deficit. Paul Krugman explains why this is a really big problem.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/opinion/28krugman.html

The past few weeks have seen a great deal of debate over whether a provision to provide free end of life counseling to seniors will lead to the government deciding who lives and who dies, invoking the imagery of Nazis and “death panels.” Despite how clearly false these claims may be, it’s difficult not to [...]

The good citizens of Athens must be getting pretty used to fires by now. In recent years fires have sort of become to Athenians like what hurricanes are to the residents of the Southern United States or drought to the people of Eastern Africa. That’s why the fires that shook the ancient city’s suburbs this [...]

(1) The next Ted Kennedy? There isn’t one
Who will fill Ted Kennedy’s shoes as the “lion” of the senate?
(2) NYC’s Economic Development Policies: Keeping People in Poverty
(3) World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports
(4) The G-20: An Idea from India
(5) Is Paul Wolfowitz for Real?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/27/why_paul_wolfowitz_should_get_real?page=0,0

http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2009/08/the-g-20-an-idea-from-india.php

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6082464/World-faces-hi-tech-crunch-as-China-eyes-ban-on-rare-metal-exports.html