Politics

Donald Trump ordered a “temporary withdrawal” of any new federal leasing of the Outer Continental Shelf for new offshore wind projects. 

Ultimately, the social cost of mass incarceration is 11 times higher than total spent on the corrections system itself.

Anyone who votes for the Republican ticket out of general frustration or because they thrill to Trump's on-stage antics or mistrust people who seem different from themselves, should reflect on how a Republican victory will affect what really matters to all of us.

Trump's budget plan would not only reduce the SPR storage to a level of 260 million barrels, it would shut down two of the four SPR sites.

This move by Sanders comes amidst a period of heightened tension and a reassessment of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

“The Trump administration is obsessed with using the coronavirus crisis to undermine our Social Security system.”

The U.S. will no longer receive fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia, gold mined by children in Africa or garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh.

Likely, down the line the US will get pulled right back into Iraq, because it refuses to recognize the real power dynamics there at the level of policy rather than just of tactics.

Progressives went along with Democratic Party leaders and corporate liberal media as they fueled the momentum toward a nuclear doomsday.

One thing seems clear already: the Kochs and their big-money allies seem poised to gain more influence than ever during a presidency they once tried to prevent.