Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 27
DNC strips superdelegates of power, 70% of Americans support Medicare for All, John McCain dies, and more.
Hate fueled by Trump
"We, indeed, all know who is fueling the hate – and we must say it."
A nonpartisan guide to national security and foreign policy issues in the presidential election...
Is Trump a Russian agent? And is Clinton an emailing criminal? Will we be less safe during the next administration?
Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fire back on House floor after Rep. Yoho calls her an...
“My mother got to see Mr. Yoho’s disrespect on the floor of this House towards me on television and I am here because I have to show my parents that I am their daughter and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men.”
Will the Biden team be warmongers or peacemakers?
Did Biden learn anything?
How Putin Started Winning Big in Syria and Got Europe to Embrace Him
This strategy has been working for Putin. He appears to have rearmed and retrained the Syrian Arab Army, which has new esprit de corps and is making significant headway for the first time in years.
VIDEO: War Crime in Afghanistan?: Outrage After US Airstrike on Hospital Kills 22 Patients...
One group is demanding an independent international inquiry into a U.S. airstrike on an Afghan hospital over the weekend. What's the real reason behind the air strike that hit the Doctors Without Borders hospital?
‘Conspicuous corruption’ solidifies in-your-face Trump Legacy for militant, ‘up yours, suckers’ derision
It's as if America was feeling so bad about itself that it had to replay the politics of self-mutilation, as if loaded with masochists.
One-time 99% tax on billionaires’ pandemic profits could fund vaccines for the entire world
“The obscene levels of wealth gained from the pandemic by a handful of mega rich individuals should immediately be taxed at 99%―enough to fully vaccinate everyone on Earth and help millions of workers.”
Mosul on my mind
What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.