Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 9, 2018
The first ever Muslim Congresswoman, Zinke blames wildfires on environmentalists, Trump wants to open California's public lands to fracking, and more.
How climate policies hurt the poor
Over the past 25 years, nearly 1.2 billion people around the world have been lifted out of poverty, while both malnutrition and the risk of death from...
The truth about corporate subsidies
Large American corporations shouldn’t need government subsidies to do what’s right for America.
Vote no on CA Prop 22: Reject this corporate power grab
Don’t let big corporations pay hundreds of millions to strip workers of the rights and protections they need.
The urgent need for a Biden-Putin summit
If the leaders of the two countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads can’t have a summit meeting and talk with each other, we’re in trouble. Real trouble.
Corporate interests have given $21.5 million to GOP ‘sedition caucus’ since Jan. 6 attack
In the month of June, as the House January 6 committee revealed alarming new details on former President Donald Trump's coup attempt, corporate...
How Australia’s ‘fever swamp’ of climate science denial is pushing a non-scandal about temperatures
Australia’s network of climate science deniers continue to grasp at straws.
Sending Trump to hell
Dante Alighieri has words for Donald J. Trump from the other side of death...
Israel’s 10,000 Palestinian prisoners: a crisis of human rights and rampant abuse
Unmasking systematic abuse: the untold story of 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention centers.
Biden holds red wave to a ripple, as Trump loses big time in midterms
Trump’s prominent personal picks did not appear to be faring very well on election day, and while things may change slightly, this conclusion is unlikely to be altered.