Yearly Archives: 2017
Trump’s expected pick for top USDA scientist is not a scientist
Sam Clovis likely to be named undersecretary of the USDA department that manages research on everything from climate change to nutrition.
Mosul on my mind
What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.
Noam Chomsky: The GOP is still the most dangerous organization in human history
"It's not just Trump, every single Republican leader is the same."
The end of Trump
The House impeaches. The Senate convicts. That’s the end of Trump.
With the walls closing in on him, his presidency unraveling, Trump hits the panic...
Should he be removed from his presidency by either impeachment or through his resignation, America will then have an opportunity to recover from these vicious attacks on its democracy.
North Korea launches missile
Kim Jong-un has said his country has reached a “final stage” in preparing to conduct its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Punishment for human rights abusers is irrevocable achievement for Argentine society
“Those who signed that decision did not realize that the trial and punishment of those responsible for human rights abuses during the last dictatorship now form part of the heritage of the Argentine people”
China’s Xi Jinping and France’s Emmanuel Macron talk climate
I know which leader is a more positive force in international affairs, by far (domestic policies and press are a different issue, though I don’t trust Trump on those, either.)
Judge: EPA’s approval of bee-killing pesticides violated federal law
A U.S. District Court judge held that the EPA had unlawfully issued 59 pesticide registrations between 2007 and 2012 for a wide variety of agricultural, landscaping and ornamental uses.
To regain people’s trust, the Democratic Party must support single-payer
Nearly 60 percent of Americans want Medicare for All. Democrats must support it, too.