Swing states can effect an election and therefore effect legislation, but how can the upcoming legislation effect swing states votes?

Today's infographic is the second in an infographic series with detailed and visually-arresting educational material about the modern industrial economy and its complexity. Yesterday's infographic was about the XL Keystone Pipeline Project. Next weekend, we'll cover other interesting resources and aspects of the industrial economy.

In the age of globalization that we are in today, people are turning new technology into conventional means for attaining political information. Here's a quick infographic on the impact television, tablets, mobile devices, and personal computers have on the political sphere.

Which screen are you? 

On Friday, Barack Obama signed the US-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012.

If you’re an oil company trying to get dirty tar sands oil from central Canada to a tanker port on the Maine Coast, why not just reverse the flow of a 71-year old pipeline that already carries crude oil from South Portland, Maine, to Montreal, passing through Vermont, New Hampshire, and Quebec, on the way?