Politics

“People from all parts of the political spectrum should be alarmed by [Trump’s] efforts to deny scientific progress.”

America and the rest of the world must hold our collective breath, hoping that the next elections – the midterms of 2018 and then the presidential election of 2020 – set things right.

A new report from the Trump White House attempts to curb the growth of socialism in the United States. Clearly, the administration sees the movement as a real threat.

One of the many anti-democratic oddities of the Iowa caucuses.

Many GOP presidential hopefuls "wouldn’t rule out U.S. boots on the ground" in Iraq, or Syria for that matter. So if a Republican takes office come 2016 we can almost be guaranteed a return of combat troops to the Middle East.

How many voters will be turned away? How long will the voting lines extend? Which candidate will have her or his voters suppressed the most?

Let’s blow away the linguistic fog. The Pentagon budget is not a “defense” budget.

Sending more fossil fuels to Europe and across the globe is not the answer a coalition of 200 national climate action groups...

These measures are noteworthy because they don’t just regulate emissions or mandate transitions. They actually do things like help the economically insecure, create material incentives for individual change, restore ecosystems, and reassert the authority of local entities over corporate polluters.

Two years later, Trump has failed to reverse America’s decline.