Trump, Clinton, Obama and the TPP
The strong American popular opposition to the TPP, the Brexit vote and other recent developments in the West suggest growing rejection of the myth that national public and corporate elite interests are identical.
Mega farms are on the rise
Even though large farms can keep food costs low, as the human population continues to grow, we have to think about the costs to our health and the health of the animals and the environments involved.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren vows to hold Education Secretary accountable
“It’s Betsy Devos’s job to put students – not predatory colleges and the student loan industry – first.”
Jimmy Kimmel to Sen. Bill Cassidy: “Stop using my name!”
“Most of the congresspeople who vote on this bill probably won’t even read it.”
Marijuana: From Demonization to Legalization to Celebration
With marijuana prohibition finally ending in states and cities across the country, it was grassroots activists who've steadily pushed America from the darkness of marijuana madness. "This bud's for you!"
Federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order, calling it ‘blatantly unconstitutional’
"You are an American citizen if you were born on American soil—period. Nothing that the president can do will change that.”
‘We’re feeding the kids’: Minnesota House passes universal school meals bill
"We give every kid in our school a desk. There are lots of kids out there that can afford to buy a desk, but they get a desk because they go to school," said the Democratic author of the bill, pushing back against GOP means-testing canards.
Israel’s liberal supporters are taking their denial to a new level
“Netanyahu is subverting Israel’s democracy” while advancing “a plan to completely strip the independence of Israel’s Supreme Court.”
Indigenous youths keep ancient forestry traditions alive in the Philippines
In the southern Philippines’ Misamis Oriental province, Indigenous Higaonon practice a forest management tradition known as panlaoy.
Court reaffirms Keystone XL’s non-pipeline construction permit invalid, again
“Constructing pipelines through rivers, streams and wetlands without analyzing the impacts on imperiled species is unconscionable."