Is Joe Biden ready for the urgency of the climate crisis?
Candidate Joe Biden proposed the most ambitious climate policy of any presidential candidate in history. Can President Biden deliver?
Inhumane, criminal: What the US Congress is refusing to do for desperate Americans
While Americans are suffering, these politicians in the Senate don’t lack for anything. In this Congress more than half of its members are millionaires.
Proposed pipeline expansion could upend three states’ climate plans
“These XPress projects are putting millions of cubic feet of gas into the United States at a time when Texas is baking and Oregon is burning.”
TrumpCare dies, XL flies and the secret winner is…
It is the bending of Trump by the hands of the poisonously greedy Brothers Koch that brings the fascist corporatist state one day closer.
Damming rivers is terrible for human rights, ecosystems and food security
Despite industry rhetoric, hydropower is high-cost and high-risk. There are better options for a post-pandemic recovery and a renewable energy future.
Flush the TPP
President Barack Obama and the Republicans are united when it comes to so-called free-trade agreements. While Obama has been negotiating the agreements, which increase corporate power, grass-roots activists are organizing against the TPP.
Court refuses reinstatement for ex-NYPD cop who killed Eric Garner
“Today we provide the people of New York City an important tool for accountability when law enforcement violates their rights.”
Biden creates commission to study Supreme Court expansion, other reforms
"Congress has the power, and the constitutional duty, to set the size of the court, as it has seven times throughout our history."
Indigenous languages are going extinct and taking knowledge of medicinal plants with them
"[L]anguage allows indigenous societies to use the biodiversity that surrounds them as a 'living pharmacy' and to describe the medicinal properties of plants."
Bernie-Tulsi-Liz: How the progressives can win back the White House
My best advice to you who support Bernie, Tulsi or Liz is that you get them to join together. This is the only way to guarantee a progressive candidate in 2020 and a strong group to oppose Trump.