Yearly Archives: 2017
“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”: Bernie Sanders reacts to Trump’s latest...
Sanders appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 yesterday to talk about healthcare and responded to Trump’s recent statement.
Monsanto cancer lawsuits take dramatic turn over EPA official’s ‘highly suspicious’ role
An EPA scientist says that Rowland and another official “intimidated staff” into changing reports related to the glyphosate findings.
The resistance and the Democratic Party
It must resist not only Trumpism, but neoliberal corporatism in the Democratic Party.
Justice Department changes position on Texas’ discriminatory voter ID law
The DOJ, now overseen by Jeff Sessions, is walking back years of effort aimed at limiting the harmful effect of state voter ID measure on minorities.
Behind Trump’s push for “American steel” in pipelines, another Russian company with Putin ties...
The definition of “made in America” – and who really benefits from such initiatives – is not so cut and dry.
Losing a war one bad metaphor at a time
Thrashing about in the Afghan petri dish.
Family receives $885K settlement after police kill their dog
The city of Hartford agreed to pay an $885,000 settlement to Harris and his daughter for both damages and a decade of legal costs.
Trump moves to repeal Obama’s Clean Water Rule
Now that Trump has taken this first step, further action against the EPA is likely to follow.
Progressive or Bust’s provocative meme assaults liberals’ hypocrisy
Rather than demean their civil rights struggle (which, by MLK’s design, enlisted many whites), the meme means to honor it as a needed and noble one.
CPAC and the DNC: A party is not a movement
The Democratic Party can’t be saved by one leader. But there’s a chance it can be saved by millions of them.