Friday, October 30, 2026

What if we made the electoral college moot?

Immediately after the 2016 presidential election, many liberal circles were buzzing about how to prevent Donald Trump from taking office, especially after...
Wildfire smoke haze over the Minneapolis skyline. Photo: Chad Davis / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

UNEP: World will Exceed 1.5º C., Bringing Catastrophes and Unknowable Risks

UNEP's own modeling now points to a peak above the treaty limit, not a gradual approach to it.

‘We are at a crisis point’ warns new report exposing ‘science under siege’ from...

The Trump administration's attacks on science have reached a "crisis point," according to policy experts and ex-government officials who published a report...

Field of fright

The terror inside Trump’s White House

Social Security data allegations spark investigation into Trump’s DOGE initiative

A whistleblower complaint now under federal investigation alleges that a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer attempted to remove and share highly sensitive Social Security data, raising serious questions about government data security and oversight.

Panama Papers Expose Another Way Our Trade Agreements Fail Us

Harmonizing international tax law and prohibiting anonymous shell corporations should be at the center of our trade negotiations.

Lots of F’s for these D’s: Report card shows majority of Senate Democrats aiding...

"A disappointing number of Democrats have buried their heads in the sand and helped Trump and Mitch McConnell to pack the courts with judges representing the far-right fringe of the country."

With US consumers ‘getting fleeced,’ Democrats demand windfall profits tax on Big Oil

"It is common sense" to use such a tax to provide rebates to consumers, argued Rep. Ro Khanna. "You have these oil companies making record profits at a time of a national emergency."

Fighting a mid-Atlantic pipeline in the age of Trump

Presidential politics and property rights take center stage as Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline opponents strategize post-election.

Biden administration announces federal investment into modernizing power grid

This go around will include $3.46 billion in funds to strengthen and modernize the electric grid.