Thursday, July 9, 2026

America’s megalomaniac

With Trump, there’s no longer American foreign policy. There’s only Trump’s ego.

The McCabe firing and the Ghost of Joe McCarthy: One more step toward the...

America will triumph over Trump. Beatitude or platitude?

Applause as Warren shows support for Green New Deal – the plan ‘every serious...

"Senator Warren has been a longtime advocate of aggressively addressing climate change and shifting toward renewables, and supports the idea of a Green New Deal to ambitiously tackle our climate crisis, economic inequality, and racial injustice."

How student loans became America’s financial catastrophe

From hopeful beginnings to a broken system, student loans reveal how policy choices turned higher learning into a lifelong financial trap.

Historic heat surge: Earth endures its hottest 12-month period in recorded history

Earth's alarming temperature surge: a dire warning for climate action.

DOJ files antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster

The antitrust lawsuit is accusing Live Nation-Ticketmaster of "running an illegal monopoly over live events in America."

‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts

Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”

Iceland opens biggest operational CO2 plant in the world

The plant, named Mammoth, is the second commercial facility opened by the company to aid in the reduction of fossil fuel emissions to combat the effects of climate change.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren launches investigation into Equifax breach

Warren's new bill will give consumers more control over their own personal data and prohibit companies like Equifax from charging consumers for freezing and unfreezing access to their credit files.

Wildfire smoke is reversing U.S. air pollution gains, study finds

“At the end of the day, the best type of policy is to proactively prevent these big fires in the first place.”