Monday, November 9, 2026

Facile answer to made-up MAGA blight

Bottomless is this vicious pit –/ No lunacy they won’t commit.

How bioenergy causes air pollution: The dark side of renewable energy

On the ground, burning biomass contributes to many air pollution impacts.

EPA orders Norfolk Southern to conduct cleanup and cover costs of trail derailment in...

“Let me be clear: Norfolk Southern will pay for cleaning up the mess they created and for the trauma they’ve inflicted on this community."

Texas governor says most gun crimes involve illegally owned weapons. That’s not true for...

According to an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, the majority of the state’s 19 mass shootings over the past six decades were carried out by men who legally possessed firearms.

How unions safeguard workers’ sweat equity

When companies do threaten to close worksites, unions step up to preserve jobs and protect communities.

Four corrosive ‘bad myths’ batter America until unifying ‘good myths’ regain prominence

History depicts the battle between “bad myths” that divide, even destroy, vs the “good myths” that speak to the grandeur of the American experiment.

There’s a big pot of climate bill money waiting to be seized—activists can’t miss...

The IRA could be one pathway to delivering something real and tangible in communities where progressives do not usually organize.

Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?

The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers, and the losers are the people of Ukraine, working and poor people everywhere, but especially in the Global South, and our fading hopes of halting the climate crisis.

New bill terminates vaccine requirement for air travelers to US

The argument against the bill states that this could put "American health care at risk."

New Biden rule denounced as ‘Trump’s asylum ban under a different name’

"This asylum ban is, at its core, Trump's asylum ban under a different name."