U.S. Government Wasted $231 Million on Failed Missile Defense Program
Although Congress approved another year of funding, PTSS was officially killed off on October 1, 2013, after spending $231 million on the doomed program.
Judge vacates Trump SNAP rule that would remove thousands off food stamps
The proposed rule change by the USDA “radically and abruptly alters decades of regulatory practice, leaving States scrambling and exponentially increasing food insecurity for tens of thousands of Americans.”
Tween boys and the fate of the world?
Seriously, humankind, what are we going to do?
Inside the mass movement against Brett Kavanaugh
“The fact is that we’re not being heard and so we have to escalate this tactic, but the result is that we are getting through."
Spring stirrings and misgivings
Of autocrats and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa
‘RussiaGate’ alone isn’t going to put progressives back in power
Progressives have to devise a comprehensive alternative that responds to both the challenge of Russia and the failures of liberalism.
Republican contradictions
Is it the anti-government nihilist position or the fascist position?
California legislature introduces bill for cops to hold bachelor’s degrees to join police force
"This could be the beginning of changing the entire way that policing is done on the front end. Then we can let the bad cops retire on the back end.”
‘I’d drop any 10 of you’: GOP Rep. Clay Higgins threatens to shoot armed...
The Louisiana lawmaker is a staunch gun rights advocate in an open carry state.
New York becomes third state to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos
This move could help protect children, agricultural workers, and the environment.








