Flipping the House is nice, but the real power is local
The more relevant political battle lines will continue to shift to our states and cities, where the real struggle for power lies.
Expert Warns Catastrophe Looms by Century’s End if Climate Change Isn’t Sharply Curtailed Now
Harold Wanless, a leading climatologist and geologist, predicts that global warming and sea level rising are going to be much more severe than the consensus predictions. Will we all struggle to breathe soon?
Public Citizen: Trump’s national emergency declaration paves way for sweeping authoritarianism
The bill includes nearly $1.4 billion to build 55 miles of new border barriers out of steel, far less than the $5.7 billion requested by President Trump.
EPA puts politics over science
This isn’t 1984. You can’t just throw scientific conclusions into the metaphorical memory hole.
Democrats make a huge mistake if they just focus impeachment on the Ukraine scandal
As with Nixon, impeaching Trump requires a slow boil, not a stir-fry.
The big picture of how we got into this mess (of Trump) and how...
Best wishes for a 2018 that’s better for America than 2017 was.
Majority of Americans of all religions or none want legal abortion, except for Evangelicals...
Even if you add all abortion critics in all the religions together, they are a minority of the country.
Who’s buying our elections? Inside the shadowy world of ‘Dark Money’
Salon talks to director Kimberly Reed about her new documentary.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 20, 2018
Progressives go big on Medicare for All, California Supreme court squashes splitting the state into two, Zinke takes a wrecking ball to the Endangered Species Act, and more.
Terror and geopolitics: Manchester in 2017 and in 1996
Both Manchester bombings were reactions against a history of colonial shaping of the lives of local people.