Thursday, June 18, 2026

Ocasio-Cortez blasts GOP for letting Elon Musk kill drug pricing reform

She slammed the Republican Party for allowing Elon Musk to derail bipartisan drug pricing reforms, calling the move a clear example of oligarchic control over American politics.

Harriet Tubman And The Currency Of Resistance

The story of Harriet Tubman, of her courageous resistance to injustice, of her fight to free slaves, for equality for women - all this must be the common currency of our democracy.

EPA Inspector General investigating Pruitt’s ‘frequent’ travel to home state ‘at taxpayer expense’

"Pruitt seems to be using these visits to launch his political career."

The taint on Trump

What has our country become? A country that accepts rapists as their leaders?

Making America meaner

A president contributes to setting the norms of our society. Trump is setting them at a new low.

U.S. Solar Created More Jobs Than Oil And Gas Extraction

One out of every 83 jobs created in the United States over the last year was in the solar industry.

‘Silent coup’ or presidential paranoia?

He may style himself a populist but its becoming ever more clear that President Trump will be even more destructive to social and environmental norms than the 1% could have imagined in their wildest dreams.

The first ever US oil lease sale in the Arctic is a huge fail

“Essentially, the Trump administration had a party, hoped the oil industry would show up, and it didn’t.”

NRC 100 year licensing conference: It’s time to stop this whole nuke con job

Biden could move to have done to the NRC what was done to its predecessor agency, the AEC, to have it abolished. And to push to end nuclear power in the U.S.