Sunday, November 15, 2026

‘Five-alarm fire’: GOP adds over 200 poison pills to House spending bills

"We cannot allow policy that harms regular people, threatens our rights, hurts the environment, and does any number of other terrible things to ride along with the appropriations package," said Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert.

Bernie Sanders will run for re-election as an independent in 2018

Sanders is currently serving his second term as a U.S. Senator after winning re-election in 2012.

Politicians and sexual aggression

With the sort of voting power women have, it seems strange that they haven’t forced both major political parties to deal with the problem.

RNC finance chair Steve Wynn resigns amid sexual assault accusations

As CEO of Wynn Resorts, Steve Wynn allegedly established a pattern of sexual abuse toward his employees over several decades.

Clinton And Sanders Call Out America’s Racist Criminal Justice System

"There needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system."

Here’s How Cuts to Planned Parenthood are Impacting Poor Women

A new study shows that Medicaid-covered births are up and contraceptive claims are down.

No Reforming Democrats: Leftist Dogma or Scientific Fact?

“For the sake of our nation’s common good—mostly likely, for the sake of saving human civilization from encroaching climate destruction—I think we must expose the hypothesis that Democrats are beyond reform to testing by purely rational experiment.”

The Trump administration’s war on science is worse than the inquisition

At the highest levels of government, deep-pocketed polluters have friends ready to implement their agendas. The attack on science must be seen in this context.

What’s the Point in Any of It?

One day, in one life, when the attractions of the sensory world have lost their charm, when we begin to see the truth of the Buddha’s words – that desire is cause of all suffering; when television, video games, sex, drugs and alcohol fail to fill the inner emptiness; when we sit in a pub with a friend and ask aloud, what the point of it all is.

‘A huge outrage’: Senate panel approves $25 billion Pentagon budget increase

“Not so incidentally, the $25 billion spending increase approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee exactly matches the cost to scale up Covid-19 vaccine production to meet global demand.”