Today, Robert Reich, the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and former Secretary of Labor to the Clinton Administration, wrote a blog post on his website about three crises Americans are ignoring - crises scarier than the fiscal cliff. Reich writes, "If we had a functional government America would address three “cliffs” posing far larger dangers to us than the fiscal one."

California Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor ruled on Monday, December 3 that state law was violated by the San Diego Association of Governments through their failure to account for climate change and greenhouse gas emissions in the SANDAG Transportation Plan/ Sustainable Communities Strategy.

With the recent legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, some people may believe that the US is moving closer to legalizing the drug on a national level. However, the most recent polls on the subject suggest that Americans are split on the prospect.