Friday, December 26, 2025

22 awesome responses to Trump’s announcement on Paris Agreement

"With this reckless rejection of international climate cooperation, the administration took a giant step toward turning our country into a rogue nation."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren vows to hold Education Secretary accountable

“It’s Betsy Devos’s job to put students – not predatory colleges and the student loan industry – first.”

Dakota Access Pipeline begins service the same day Trump announces withdrawal from Paris agreement

This decision is not the first – nor will it likely be the last – from the Trump administration to move the United States backwards in climate action.

Kabul bomb blast kills at least 90 people. We need to know their names

We may never know who is to blame, nor, sadly, are we likely to learn the names and the life stories of the victims.

BREAKING: Wisconsin may bring the Koch brothers one state closer to rewriting the constitution

Legislators are debating whether to call for a constitutional convention, a prize of corporate interest groups.

The Republican Party’s sickness of the soul

There is, indeed, a “poverty of spirit” at work here.

Trump’s rollback of civil rights

Trump has made clear his priorities: Benefit the most comfortable Americans and stick it to the most vulnerable.

Third parties’ only hope: a new anti-duopoly Occupy

What’s now needed is not merely a movement devoted to a single group or issue, but a movement of movements embracing all the groups and interests stymied by bipartisan political corruption.
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How not to make the budget balance on the backs of the poor

Limiting deductions and exclusions would be rational, fiscally responsible, and fair.

Cut corporate taxes? This is how the biggest companies cheated on taxes in 2016

Ten companies mentioned in this report collectively withheld nearly $15 billion in tax money in 2016.