Matt Bivens is an emergency medicine physician practicing in Massachusetts and a national board member of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
The Department of Energy has hit upon a new idea for nuclear waste clean-up: just leave it there and declare the area a wildlife preserve. The animals won't complain.
The Price Anderson Act has discouraged the development of safer, less costly sources of energy than nuclear power. Join your voice to those calling for Congress to not renew its status by signing this online petition.
There is mass hunger and need in Afghanistan, and the UN is under great pressure to get supplies through.
Readers respond to Matt Bivens's "Nuclear Power & Terrorism."
TASHKENT–In the markets, on the streets, even in the privacy of their homes or cars, the people of Uzbekistan are sphinxlike. They think things are going…well, as best as could be expected.