Oil giants admit potential spill could have 30% chance of hitting Amazon reef
The region is home to species that don’t exist anywhere else on earth.
Unheralded national popular vote push to remedy ‘elitist’ Electoral College
You’d think today’s majority, rebuffed twice in 16 years with two wingnut, minority presidents, would rage against the non-democratic, distortion-laden Electoral College. You’d think that hapless, vision-less Democrats would crusade against what put dim Dubya, then crazed, scatter-gun Trump in power.
1.5 million volunteers plant 66 million trees in 12 hours, breaking Guinness World Record
The aim of the mass-planting event was to raise awareness for the nation’s “make India green again” plan.
On July fourth, a message for patriots
On this holiday, and every day, that flag and the promise it symbolizes are not Trump’s supporters to abuse, but belong to a nation that will uphold and someday vindicate them.
Restoring the Voting Rights Act
This week, the Voting Rights Advancement Act was introduced in Congress in hopes of restoring Section 5 to modern standards.
Bernie Sanders: If you throw 32 million people off of health insurance, tens of...
"Short term, I hope that we can work with the Republicans to end the absurdity of us paying the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Longer term we need a Medicare for all, and I will introduce that once this debate is over."
The battle over what it means to be female
“How do we explore these rights for transgender folks in a way that does not undermine the rights of women or people of color?”
Trump’s escalating assault on the press
Will news organizations be intimidated?
Major new study shows pesticide risk to honey bees
Scientists are calling for a complete ban on neonics, but will governments listen?
A rising tide of anger and frustration spreads across America, generating positive actions
This is exactly what America needs, what it must have, at this most critical time in its history.