The last housing crisis wiped out billions of dollars in home equity and left millions of Americans underwater on their homes — owing more on their mortgages than their properties were worth. But while the real estate market has bounced back, rising sea levels in the coming decades could leave millions of homeowners underwater again — this time quite literally.

The primary Medicare for All bill has more support in Congress now than it has ever before.

With credit to Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman for their long ago description of how the media/education system manufactures consent, this article is about one of its critical components: manufactured amnesia. Simply put, the media treats everything it deems newsworthy as a discrete event that is taking place for the first time ever. So, for example, the white male supremacist presidency of Donald Trump is presented as something brand new in US history. Sigh.  

Boulder County will phase out the cultivation of genetically modified corn and sugar beets and the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on county-owned farmland.