HIV/AIDS council fired by Trump
The council was developed under former President Bill Clinton and consisted of a diverse team of experts and activists.
Iran’s ‘Tea Party’ moment?
Responsibility for the unrest ultimately lies with the country’s government.
Trump’s victory and elite power over the Democratic Party
The same basic approach of Democratic Party elites that first opened the door to the White House for Donald Trump has done it again.
Bernie and AOC urge Trump to stop delaying disaster relief aid for Puerto Rico
“Let us be clear: Postponing the disbursement of this vital assistance any longer—in the face of the humanitarian needs of Puerto Rico—is simply shameful.”
‘Corrupt as hell’: Demands for Clarence Thomas to resign follow new details of wife’s...
"Reminder that Clarence Thomas heard election cases while his wife conspired to overthrow democracy."
‘We don’t have to live this way’: St. Louis school gunman armed with AR-15,...
"Republicans will tell you the solution is some more guns. On November 8, you need to tell them they're full of shit."
The invisible candidate and the progressive lion
As Americans on the progressive left might have expected, the one politician who is responding with the seriousness and the kind of reassuring competence that his fellow citizens need in such a difficult time, is Bernie Sanders.
Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Costa Rica—first in Central America
"This change will cause a significant social and cultural transformation of the country."
The costs of Trump’s war on federal workers
“A protest a day keeps the fascists away!”
Interior Sec. Zinke blames ‘radical environmentalists,’ not climate change, as 100+ wildfires rage
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wrote an op-ed last week in USA Today about forest management on public lands that blamed “radical environmentalists” for the fires.