Trump announces plans to pull out of Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty
“We will move forward with developing our own military response options and will work with NATO and our other allies and partners to deny Russia any military advantage from its unlawful conduct.”
Why Indiana’s “Religious Freedom” Law Is Great News for Student Debtors
If enough student debtors in enough RFRA states joined in a class action lawsuit against the financial institutions and got enough public awareness drawn to their cause, one of two things would happen: either the RFRA laws are upheld and the student loans are forgiven, or the RFRA laws are rendered unconstitutional and student debtors are still bound to their debt agreements.
‘Panama Papers’ Leak Being Called “the Wikileaks of the Mega-Rich”
The list includes the Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, and close associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Why We’re All Becoming Independent Contractors
The most significant legal trend in the American workforce is “independent contractors,” which lessens companies' costs of having full-time employees. But is the trend contributing directly to low pay, irregular hours and job insecurity?
“Not in Our Name!” How Neoconservatives and Liberal Hawks Use Lies to Sell Wars
Regardless of who leads us, the arms industry, paired with warmongering politicians and their media enablers are always trying to shape the conversation around war and peace in favor of the former.
Bernie Sanders’ Real ‘Political Revolution’ Could Happen This Fall
With Hillary Clinton likely to win the Democratic nomination, a push is on to get Sanders not to endorse her, and instead to accept the Green Party nomination for president -- a move that could both make the Greens a major party overnight, and destroy the centuries-old two-party duopoly poisoning American politics.
The Hairball That Gagged a Fracker
Rick Berman is a political consultant who plays so dirty even Big Oil is not interested him. This man takes funding from corporations and uses that money to publicly slam environmentalists, low-wage workers, and any of his enemies.
With Clinton’s Nixonian Email Scandal Deepening, Sanders Needs to Demand Answers
As Hillary Clinton's email scandal deepens and grows more Nixonian, Bernie Sanders needs to stop being the gentleman, and hammer her with questions about why she insisted for four years on conducting all her State Department "business" on a private email server outside of Freedom of Information access.
‘A message that America will tolerate war crimes’: Trump poised to pardon war criminals
“It was important that the perpetrators of those horrific offenses were brought to justice. Now Trump, in a twisted, grotesque ‘celebration’ of Memorial Day, wants to pardon these and other murderers?!
In France, ‘us and them’ amid elections
Many residents of France are in fact wondering how the country reached its current stage, with an extreme-right candidate again making it to the second round of French presidential elections.