California to phase out ultra-processed food in schools by 2035
The new law was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week at Belvedere Middle School in Los Angeles and prohibits public schools from serving this type of food in breakfasts and lunches.
The triumphant politics of surfaces, blockading real knowledge, feeding victimhood, outlawry and corruption
The Trump mania for gold-veneer, pompous arches or mammoth ballrooms speaks to his surface obsession, with crass showiness allergic to democratic values, nailed with this brilliant take-down “Trump’s Dictator Chic.”
The spoils of war: Trump lavished with media and bipartisan praise for bombing Syria
The one constant of American political life is that the U.S. loves war. Martin Luther King’s 1967 denunciation of the U.S. as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today” is more accurate than ever.
Obama’s Ugly Show of Presidential Petulance
The President has "worked himself into such a tizzy over the TPP." While his progressive friends in Congress are questioning the secret trade agreement, Obama is lashing out at them in a pathetic show of presidential petulance.
Officer Not Charged for Gunning Down Unarmed 17-Year-Old
Deven Guilford, was killed as a result of being shot seven times by Eaton County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Jonathan Frost. Deven was stopped by the officer because Deven flashed his bright lights to alert the oncoming officer that his brights appeared to be on.
Reforming partisan SCOTUS may be as simple as voting in local elections
Because state lawmakers’ districts are often small, they are far more accessible and much more sensitive to public pressure than members of Congress and the U.S. Senate.
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Could voters abroad tip the democratic primaries?
I’ve been researching to try to find out exactly how many Democrats vote from abroad. In 2018, the Federal Voting Assistance Program...
How the corporate takeover of American politics began
Powell’s memo argued that the American economic system was “under broad attack” from consumer, labor, and environmental groups.
Extreme weather events are the new frontline of online climate denial—report
Analyzing Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube, it found that three quarters of the most popular misleading posts focused on extreme weather events.