Sanders and Clinton Clash Over Soda Tax
Despite the fact that Clinton pledged not to impose any new taxes on households earning under $250,000 a year, she recently broke her promise by supporting Philadelphia’s proposed soda tax.
Two major pipeline spills reported same week Trump advances KXL, DAPL
America's 2.5 million miles pipelines “suffer hundreds of leaks and ruptures every year, costing lives and money.”
Selling insurance across state lines
Experts cited several reasons that the across-state-lines idea wouldn’t be a cure for high premiums as the president implied.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 8
Humans, fish and other animals are consuming microfibers in our food and water, Trump's pick for energy innovation is invested in Big Oil, and Susan Collins' challenger raises millions after vote for Kavanaugh.
Trump administration releases new rules on school nutrition standards, rolls back Obama administrations efforts
Last week marked the first of many rollbacks the Trump administration and the USDA are planning on the way the USDA administers school lunch programs.
New Medicare for All Act sets a new standard for guaranteeing healthcare a human...
“This Medicare for All bill really makes it clear what we mean when we say ‘Medicare for All.’"
Massive case of denial: COVID surges in US, tops 10M globally, as Pence touts...
“This has just been a massive case of denial, of idiotic government policy, of the lack of any strategic planning, any really specific strategic goal."
Covid-19 crisis failure, people must save themselves and the economy
Our actions need to be about building a people’s movement that grows in power before and after the November elections.
‘What the hell is wrong with them’: GOP senators kill $35 cap on insulin
'Republicans told millions of Americans who use insulin to go to hell.'
‘Civil society is pretty much gone’ in Puerto Rico as White House scrambles to...
"We have to think of this as societal collapse: no power, no water, no food, no nothing."