Saturday, April 27, 2024

Climate Justice from the Ground Up: 6 Ballot Initiatives to Watch in 2016

These measures are noteworthy because they don’t just regulate emissions or mandate transitions. They actually do things like help the economically insecure, create material incentives for individual change, restore ecosystems, and reassert the authority of local entities over corporate polluters.

On Memorial Day, U.S. Troops Are at War With Islamic State Near Mosul

The line of the Obama administration had been that US troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria were only trainers and advisors. But US forces have exceeded that role.
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Donald Trump Says There is No Drought in California

Trump claims California is not in a drought and will open up water to farmers if he is elected president.

Looming Trump Whoppers: What If We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet?

Winning will not make Trump curb his media-driven excesses -- or think less of his matchless, instinctive brilliance. Au contraire. Does not Trump’s attention-getting gimmickry demand ever more outlandish bellowing? That suggests worse is yet to come. So let’s take current Trumpery to its “logical” extension. Does not understanding Trumpism advance by imagining his first State of the Union address?

Trump Immediately Backs Out of Presidential Debate Against Bernie

On Friday, Sanders told reporters, “Well, I hope he changes his mind again. Mr. Trump has been known to change his mind many times in a day."

Advice for Divided Democrats

Many Hillary supporters don’t want Bernie to keep campaigning, and many Bernie supporters don’t want to root for Hillary if she gets the nomination.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Takes High-School Detention To A New Level

Is "Operation Border Guardian" intended to create fear among those still in Central America who might consider taking the perilous journey north to the U.S.?

Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Rent Anywhere In The Country

A minimum wage worker who wants to afford a two-bedroom apartment has to hold down nearly three full-time jobs.

Bernie Sanders Trails Hillary Clinton by 2 Points in California

It's a statistical tie in California as the June 7 primary approaches.

Bernie Hopes Trump Will Not ‘Chicken Out’ of Presidential Debate

“I’d love to debate Bernie. He’s a dream.”