Trump and GOP face new scrutiny over Social Security retirement age threat
Democratic senators are pressing the president to say whether he would veto benefit cuts, as the program’s 2032 funding deadline becomes a flashpoint in the fight over retirement security.
Louisiana offers fossil fuel exporter ‘single largest’ local tax giveaway in American history
The move comes as a group of investors and insurers have called on the U.S. and all other G20 nations to end fossil fuel subsidies entirely by 2020, citing the risk that climate change poses to the global economy.
California police officer charged with assaulting minor
“Those who wear the uniform must follow the law. Excessive force will not be tolerated in Los Angeles County.”
The essence of evil; Republicans’ treachery against their fellow Americans
What Republicans are doing should be considered as an act of treachery.
The trials and tribulations of Rex Tillerson
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” —William Shakespeare
Koch caucus continues its assault on healthcare
Three interconnected stories – of the Koch brothers, the Freedom Caucus, and the Affordable Care Act – paint the larger picture of money’s corrupting role in American politics.
Executive excess: How taxpayers subsidize giant corporate pay gaps
More than two-thirds of the top federal contractors and corporate subsidy recipients paid their CEO more than 100 times their median worker pay in 2017.
Who is more advanced? 29 Muslim-majority states will have more liberal abortion laws than...
Only 18 of 47 Muslim-majority countries have abortion laws today as restrictive as that in Texas...which is the model for a raft of laws to be enacted as soon as Roe is struck down.
Toxic gaslighting: How 3M executives convinced a scientist the forever chemicals she found in...
As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, Kris Hansen wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
Monsanto ordered to pay $2 billion in Roundup cancer lawsuit
“We’ve been fighting cancer for more than nine years now and we can’t do any of the things we wanted to do. We really resent Monsanto for that.”