5 tips on how to talk climate change this holiday season
The trick is to use patience, tolerance, an optimistic tone – and last, but not least, a keen understanding of your audience – to nudge your climate-skeptic sister or father-in-law.
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 27
The 7 senators who will decide Kavanaugh’s fate, more police violence, a declaration from the third Kavanaugh accuser, and more.
The rampage of reckless individualism matches climate change as a global threat
Reckless individualism delivers just as many body blows to collective freedom as fascism, communism or fundamentalism.
Why the way we measure poverty matters
A national panel is recommending changes to a key poverty measurement. It might sound technical, but the stakes are high.
QAnon pop quiz: How to rank American Presidents
There are no trick questions. The same does not go for the answers.
Justice Department charges 4 men in Panama Papers scandal
“Today we announce the indictment of four individuals who allegedly defrauded the U.S. government through a large scale, intercontinental money laundering and wire fraud scheme, associated with Mossack Fonseca and its affiliates."
House Republicans stymie Senate plan to pass War Powers resolution
"Speaker Ryan is not allowing a vote on my resolution to stop the war in Yemen because many Republicans will vote with us and he will lose the vote."
The right-wing machine behind the curtain
If there is much to rage against in the Right’s agenda, there is also a perverse element of hope for progressives.
Supreme Court rules in favor of climate change, rejects ExxonMobil’s appeal of an April...
Yesterday's ruling by the Supreme Court "clears the way for our office to investigate Exxon's conduct toward consumers and investors."
Why disability rights advocates are pressing the Senate to allow an internet voting option
The push for voters with disabilities, and for overseas and military voters, pits civil rights activists against cybersecurity advocates.