Thursday, August 27, 2026

The break-up?

Are the United States and Israel no longer friends?
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“A Barrett confirmation is a catastrophe”: What Democrats can do to block Trump’s Supreme...

“A 6-3 majority on the court is basically a bomb coming at what is left of our protections against corruption in politics, against corporate money, against what is left of the Voting Rights Act.”

The beginning of the end of democracy as we know it?

Will history record that Republican senators were more united in their opposition to democracy than Democratic senators are in their support for it?

Bipartisan senators praise passage of Great American Outdoors Act

“Years of bipartisan work have led to this moment and this historic opportunity for conservation.”

Kenya joins growing fight against plastic pollution

Kenya's plastic bag ban, which begins in September, will require sweeping changes to business as usual.
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From crime bill to Iraq War vote, Biden’s legislative history under scrutiny as he...

Biden is also known for close ties to the financial industry and voting to authorize the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

What American media won’t tell us about the Putin/XI Meeting, Part II

An authoritarian approach to such a threat can never work – democracies have to lead.

‘Just absurd’: Flood of ridicule as Trump readies executive order to stop ‘socialist destruction’...

"Not only did Trump's own budget make deep cuts to Medicare, but can someone explain to me how a socialist program can be saved from socialism?"

Federal judge rules Trump’s mass firing of federal workers was illegal—but will it stop...

The case was brought by a coalition of labor unions and advocacy groups, who sued OPM after the agency ordered thousands of probationary federal employees to be fired.

The myth of the free market

Regulation is not the enemy of incentive, invention, or innovation. Nor is it incompatible with progress, profits, or personal gain.