RSN: Why Solar Energy Is Poised for Yet Another Record Year, Warren Increases the Pain Factor for Choosing Corporate-Friendly Democrats, Justice Department Sets Sights on Wall Street Executives

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Frank Rich | The Real Stephen Colbert Is a Sunday-School Teacher. His Key to Late-Night Success Is Avoiding Piety. 
 
Frank Rich, New York Magazine 
Rich writes: "Who is the real Stephen Colbert? We may never know, and we don't have to know: Part of the allure of the two greatest practitioners of the genre, Johnny Carson and Letterman, is that their real offstage characters always remained tantalizingly out of reach of the audience." 
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Justice Department Sets Sights on Wall Street Executives 
Matt Apuzzo and Ben Protess, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "Stung by years of criticism that it has coddled Wall Street criminals, the Justice Department issued new policies on Wednesday that prioritize the prosecution of individual employees - not just their companies." 
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Warren Increases the Pain Factor for Choosing Corporate-Friendly Democrats 
David Dayen, The Intercept 
Dayen writes: "A little-noticed report on candidates for an open spot on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reaffirms that the reformist wing of the Democratic Party is winning the tactical battle over financial regulatory personnel." 
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Silicon Valley's Labor Uprising 
S.E. Smith, In These Times 
Smith writes: "Seeing the writing on the wall, some high-profile tech companies are taking steps to improve standards for the workers they hire through staffing agencies." 
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What Dick Cheney Has Learned From History 
Peter Beinart, The Atlantic 
Beinart writes: "Only Dick Cheney could interpret the last decade or two of U.S. foreign policy as a testament to the efficacy and morality of war." 
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The War Against Women: College Campuses and American Culture 
Vincent Emanuele, teleSUR 
Emanuele writes: "The notion that men should dominate, humiliate, harass, rape or assault women is constantly reinforced in modern American society and culture. That being said, college campuses are some of the worst offenders." 
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Why Solar Energy Is Poised for Yet Another Record Year 
Chris Mooney, The Washington Post 
Mooney writes: "The U.S. solar industry is on course for a new growth record in 2015, according to a new report that finds that solar photovoltaic installations now exceed 20 gigawatts in capacity and could surpass an unprecedented 7 gigawatts this year alone across all segments." 
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RSN: Most Americans Think We're 'Morally Obligated' to Fight Climate Change, I'll Believe the GOP Cares About the Middle Class When I See It

Makes you wonder why voters keep putting a Morally Bankrupt GOP back in office.....

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Elizabeth Warren | I'll Believe the GOP Cares About the Middle Class When I See It

Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren for Senate
Warren writes: "So far in this new Congress, Republicans have spent weeks debating a pipeline that will mostly benefit a giant foreign oil company - and weeks more threatening a government shutdown of the Homeland Security Department."
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US Government's Blood Money Payouts to Afghans
Cora Currier, The Intercept
Currier writes: "An armored vehicle ran over a six-year-old boy's legs: $11,000. A boy drowned in an anti-tank ditch: $1,916. A 10-ton truck ran over a cucumber crop: $180."
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Three Years After Trayvon Martin, a New Civil Rights Movement Grows in Strength
Lauren Gambino and Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "When 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was gunned down three years ago this week in Sanford, Florida, his tragic death breathed life into a dormant civil rights movement."
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Top GOP Operative Calls Scott Walker 'Kind of a Dumba--'
Hunter Walker, Business Insider
Walker writes: "Mark Salter, who was a top adviser on the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R), is not a fan of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R)."
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Dutch Law Offers Preview of Net Neutrality
Mark Scott, The New York Times
Scott writes: "In short, the new law was not the Internet Armageddon that many Dutch telecommunications companies, industry lobbyists and some lawmakers had predicted."
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Silicon Valley Is More Flintstones Than Jetsons When It Comes to Women
Elena Favilli, Guardian UK
Favilli writes: "Silicon Valley elites like to think they're miles ahead of the rest of the world. But when it comes to openness toward women, they are as behind as everyone else."
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Most Americans Think We're 'Morally Obligated' to Fight Climate Change
Bruce Wallace, Reuters
Wallace writes: "A significant majority of Americans say combating climate change is a moral issue that obligates them - and world leaders - to reduce carbon emissions, a Reuters/IPSOS poll has found."
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