Controlling the Narrative: Two Recent Articles Offer Very Different Insights into Obama’s Foreign Policy
The Obama administration’s reliance on covert ops and prosecutions of whistle-blowers will be big black marks on its record and the effects of both will be felt long after this President leaves office.
Beer Company Develops Edible Six-Pack Rings That Feed, Rather Than Kill, Marine Life
A craft beer company and an ad agency brewed up a brilliant idea to save marine life if six-pack rings end up in the ocean.
Bernie Sanders Responds to Nevada Convention Debacle
“The Democratic Party has a choice. It can open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change...Or the party can choose to maintain its status quo structure."
Why This New Overtime Rule Is A Big, Big Deal
Either we go with the business allies of Donald Trump who believe the extra time and labor of low-wage workers should be exploited without compensation, or we believe in restoring the bargain we used to have with lower-wage workers that they deserve the humanity of a 40-hour workweek and the fairness of time-and-a-half for working overtime.
Power Loves the Dark
Police nationwide are secretly exploiting intrusive technologies with the Feds’ complicity.
Donald Trump Disrobed (It Isn’t Pretty…)
Either we recognize our own responsibility and demand better of ourselves AND our political leaders, or one day soon we will wake up and discover that the country we know and love is gone forever.
BREAKING: Connecticut To Automatically Register 400,000 Voters
Connecticut becomes the fifth state to adopt this policy to make it easier to vote.
Dream On — GOP ‘Unity’ Looms as Trump Closing His Gun-to-the Head Deal
Just as the protean Donald will say anything to win votes, the Party of Hypocrisy now confirms its mind-blowing hypocrisy, willing to support a partial, perceived winner who says anything to win power. Is that how to to make Republicans, let alone America, great again? Or just Trump, the perfect, modern media candidate, talking in such empty constructs angry campers can project whatever they want? Now we understand why rightwingers will embrace the Trumpster, less for unity than desperation: it's not pretty to see a national party cornered, then nullified, or worse.
Police Officer Charged With Stealing From Disadvantaged Children
Instead of rebuilding trust between police and the community, Simmons has reportedly caused irreparable harm for his own personal gain.
The Alaska Democratic Convention Just Rejected Superdelegates
Alaska has followed in the footsteps on Maine and has abolished the superdelegate system.