Security detail protecting Education Secretary cost nearly $8M over 8 months
Narrowly confirmed after Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate, DeVos is the first cabinet-level official to receive protection from the marshals service since 2009.
Koch caucus continues its assault on healthcare
Three interconnected stories – of the Koch brothers, the Freedom Caucus, and the Affordable Care Act – paint the larger picture of money’s corrupting role in American politics.
Meet the Nebraskans who could stop Keystone XL (again)
But TransCanada is intervening in the process in its own way.
Together at last?
‘The Majority’ Converges on May 1st
The pandora’s box of war
None of the insurgents in the region will willingly lay down their weapons until the U.S. occupation of the Middle East ends.
Hundreds of TSA agents failed drug and alcohol tests
“TSA employees have been criminally charged for using cocaine on the job, facilitating large-scale drug and human smuggling, and engaging in child pornography activities.”
Activists rally in front of Trump Tower in Chicago to protest Syria missile strikes
When President Obama was faced with the same questions of intervention in 2013 after Assad and the Syrian government was accused of gassing its own people, many leading republicans came out and condemned a quick action.
Why these missile strikes won’t make things better for the Syrian people
There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.
50 years later, a speech by King has lessons for a president
Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.