How long can America maintain a war economy?
The major challenge for the United States is the perennial trade-off between guns and butter.
Once Again, the VA Turns Down Navy Vets for Agent Orange Benefits
A federal court had ordered the VA to reassess its policy denying Agent Orange benefits to Navy sailors who served in the Vietnam War. The VA’s conclusion: They still don’t qualify.
Oil flows through Line 3 as water protectors continue resistance to pipeline
Indigenous activists are still waging a battle in court as oil starts flowing through the controversial Line 3 pipeline.
How inequality is killing off humanity
In the U.S., where wealth inequality is extreme and getting worse, the richest .01 percent are wealth-obese.
America’s biggest public pension fund is slow-walking corporate climate action, report charges
CalPERS says it needs to hold onto billions in fossil fuel shares in order to push polluters in the right direction – but a new report details a pattern of voting against climate proposals.
Big oil clouded the science on extreme weather. Now it faces a reckoning
A collection of evidence reveals the industry’s efforts to deny the link between extreme weather and climate change.
The rule of law & the recidivist in the White House
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.
Protests planned nationwide as vote on FCC’s ‘catastrophic’ plan to kill net neutrality looms
Open internet supporters are demanding that lawmakers answer a simple question: "Do you stand for your constituents' ability to communicate and connect, or do you stand for Verizon's bottom line?"
Why and how China’s economy will slow down
The goal should be to disengage from great power rivalry and peacefully pursue economic and technological progress.
New study says earthquakes in Texas are caused by fracking
So far this year TexNet seismographs have recorded 209 earthquakes, compared to 192 in 2018.