Politics

The coming years promise grave challenges, but a revived feminist movement can move us in the right direction.

The EXPERTS Act and the Stop Corporate Capture Act aim to restore agency expertise, increase transparency in regulatory decisions, and reduce the influence of corporate funded studies and litigation in the rulemaking process.

Here’s what I’ve learned: Academic and activist jargon and concepts obscure more than they clarify, and alienate more than they attract people to the cause.

A planned Earth Day rollback of wildlife protections collapsed under public pressure and internal divisions as Republicans continued pursuing cuts to nutrition programs alongside rising war spending.

“We hope the event not only sends a message, but creates new opportunities for the low-wage, largely immigrant subcontractors.”

Historians and neuro-scientists show there are well-established psychological patterns that explain how personal fear fosters anger that leads to a need for action to eliminate the fear.

Right-wing media have been smearing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who identifies himself as a democratic socialist, by comparing his ideology to that of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Experts have called the comparison “inaccurate,” “outrageous,” and “a trivialization of history.”

While investigating a foreign defense contractor caught bribing U.S. Navy senior officers, the Justice Department informed the Navy that Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch along with hundreds of Navy personnel were suspected of accepting lavish gifts in exchange for classified materials.

"If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light.”

Appellate court strikes down net neutrality ending the push to regulate internet service providers like a public utility.