On New Year’s Eve, I took a look back at 2010 and a look ahead too. Jonathan Lash and the venerable World Resources Institute are pretty clued in, so you might like to have their perspective too. His presentation covers the gamut, from EPA’s authority, to food and water issues, to transportation, deforestation, and the […]
Senatus Populusque Romanus – The Senate and the People of Rome. The old Roman Senate was, on paper, representative of the people. Because the US is a representative democracy, the US Senate was meant, up to a certain point, to perpetuate this same principle. It was, however, certainly less representative, from Day One, than its […]