Donald Trump’s swamp: Meet ten potential energy and climate cabinet picks and the pickers
Nearly everyone who remains on Trump's likely climate and energy list, or is helping pick those positions, has ties to corporate lobbying, corporate leadership, or corporate-funded think tanks.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, June 25, 2018
Poor People's Campaign marches on Washington, Saudi Arabia lifts the ban on women driving, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is kicked out of a restaurant, and more.
Noam Chomsky: The real effect of the recent U.S. bombings in Syria and Afghanistan
In a clip from a recent talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Chomsky discusses the Trump administration’s recent military strikes on Syria and Afghanistan.
A school system goes to hell and back again
A pandemic year of hope, trauma, and tragedy, up close and personal.
Why faith leaders are standing up to the largest pro-Israel Christian lobby
An interfaith campaign is confronting one of the most powerful groups driving unconditional support for Israel and the genocide in Gaza with spiritual resistance.
‘People will die’: The Trump administration said it lifted its an on lifesaving humanitarian...
“I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.
Why the abortion rights movement needs to get more personal
As a queer kid, I struggled to understand what choice means. Now, as a parent, I see it as central to ensuring fundamental freedoms for all of us.
Darkness on the prairie: The death of Colten Boushie
Indigenous youth will account for almost 25% of Saskatchewan’s young people by 2031; attitudes need to change or more lives will be wasted.
When Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize, ‘peace’ has lost its meaning
Why Maria Corian Machada is a horrible Peace Prize choice by Venezuelan-American, Michelle Ellner.
10 most important environmental stories of 2016
No matter how much ink and airtime they earned, all of these stories revealed some larger trend about the state of the environment and environmental advocacy.