Trump’s tariff tsunami
The better-prepared industries and countries put up their own protective walls. The rest take out their lifejackets and hope for the best.
Imagining a Sanders presidency beginning on Jan. 20
It was not your normal inaugural address to be sure!
UK imported £19.3 billion in fossil fuels from authoritarian petrostates in the year following...
UK accused of ‘gross hypocrisy’ by human rights campaigners for new dependency on Gulf oil and gas.
Major US bank promises not to fund Arctic drilling
“Nearly 30 major banks around the world (now including all 6 major U.S. banks!) have concluded that funding new Arctic drilling is far too risky and bad for business.”
Principles for progressives to follow on Trump’s ties to Russia
We can build a unified movement around the corruption that’s already been uncovered in Trump’s “swamp cabinet” and the money-crazed GOP.
3.2 million kids could be thrown off ‘childcare cliff’ in September—unless Congress acts
"Congress must take action to tackle the childcare crisis now."
Gut check on the guttiest, nuttiest president. Bar none
We have words for those who elevate internal, non-logical feelings over mind – contrary to what that vast conspiracy of humanity calls consensual knowledge: delusional, hustlers, deceivers, crack pots or people of bad faith.
Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum
‘Slavery wasn’t so bad; white men are the real victims’: these are the messages that appear to stem from the right-wing war on history. It’s part of a bigger picture rooted in the politics of fear.
Clueless Santorum perpetrates ‘second genocide’ of Native Americans
Thus do racists defend “manifest destiny,” the delusion that God endorsed genocide, the greatest single theft of land, freedom and property in history.
U.S. in the Middle East: Where You Don’t Belong You Must Not Stay
The U.S. should not be in the Middle East, but the U.S. government will not be pulling out troops when there is still oil and natural gas there. At some point in time, other countries will get so tired of this endless war they will step in to put an end to it.