‘We will not be intimidated’: Organizers announce Women’s March against NRA
In response to hostile videos by gun lobby group, progressive activists announce march in nation's capitol for next week.
What makes more sense, a minimum income tax or a maximum income?
The U.S. senator who chairs the GOP Senate campaign effort wants America’s poorest to pay up more at tax time.
Electing Democrats in November without confronting neoliberalism will not be enough
If Democrats win in the next couple of elections but continue to make the rich richer with neoliberal policies (as Obama did), that will just be another opening for a Trump-type.
‘Our leaders are behaving like children:’ Teen climate activist confronts world leaders at UN...
"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”
Peace in their time
Since Ukraine is the victim in this conflict, it should ideally decide the timing and the parameters of any peace deal.
EPA to require Midwestern utilities clean up coal ash waste
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold utilities in several Midwestern states accountable for coal ash waste. The agency announced it will...
National Monuments open for business: Mining and drilling to begin on public lands
Today marks the "largest rollback of protections for public lands and waters in U.S. history."
Why food prices are rising even more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuvKoe9Ilvo
Monopolies are slowly killing rural America — and driving up the price you pay for food.
Trade war with China – easy to win?
A trade war is won by the country that can tolerate more pain.
EPA grants bee-killing pesticide ’emergency’ approval; a ‘routine abuse of emergency exemptions’
"The EPA is routinely misusing the 'emergency' process to get sulfoxaflor approved because it's too toxic to make it through normal pesticide reviews."