Yearly Archives: 2017
We don’t think of Californians as climate refugees yet, but we should
Texas. Florida. Puerto Rico. California. The growing climate disaster toll ought to raise questions about where humans can and should live.
How Trump’s presidency is fueling right-wing nationalist & anti-immigration movements across Europe
Hate crimes in Britain have hit a record high and anti-immigrant nationalist movements are surging across Europe.
Bernie Sanders will run for re-election as an independent in 2018
Sanders is currently serving his second term as a U.S. Senator after winning re-election in 2012.
Report: EPA hires 12 more bodyguards for Pruitt, costing $2M annually for full security...
Meanwhile, President Trump's budget blueprint would cut the EPA's funds by more than 30 percent.
Our ever-deadlier police state
“We need an effective system of crime prevention and control in our communities, but that is not what the current system is.”
The crack-up
Donald Trump and the fourth great shattering.
Do Democrats really need Wall Street?
A former Democratic operative writes in The New York Times that the party needs to drop FDR's progressive coalition and strengthen ties to Wall Street. He's dead wrong.
Why Native American women are going after Europe’s banks to divest from Big Oil
“Indigenous women ... often are the ones to call out injustice when they see it immediately. We saw that at Standing Rock.”
New NRA ad warns Trump opponents ‘will perish in the political flames of their...
This is not the first time the NRA has released a video featuring Loesch that is laden with violent innuendo.
Biggest oil spill since Deepwater Horizon is twice as bad as we thought
The flow has been contained, but no cause for the ruptured pipe has been determined.