Thursday, July 24, 2025

Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 31

Corporate profits reach new heights, Trump cancels pay raise for federal workers, Canada rescinds Trans Mountain pipeline approval, and more.

Is Nuclear Winter a climate issue?

The ultimate environmental disasters are still siloed.

Here’s what a defunded EPA means for America

The agency Trump plans to eviscerate does much more than fight climate change.

Trump’s lament: ‘And now, the end is near, and so I face the final...

It’s even more evidence that America badly needs a president who can keep his head on straight.

Trump’s EPA pick rouses suspicions over ties to Koch Brothers

Trump's appointment of Pruitt was met with unprecedented criticism by environmental and health organizations nationwide, being described as a "puppet" of the fossil fuel industry.

How Trump Would Weaken America

Weakening America’s alliances, the likely result of Trump’s policies, is hardly the way to “make America great again.”

Why Jeffrey Sterling Deserves Support as a CIA Whistleblower

Revelations from brave whistleblowers are essential for the informed consent of the governed. But the relentless prosecution of Sterling renders a key implicit message to other potential whistleblowers.

A cruel hoax: The political economy of anti-immigration

The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.”

Year-end insights galore, but what will we, can we learn from calamity?

On display: full combat between the forces of ignorance, bigotry, deception and propaganda vs. knowledge, understanding, wisdom and besieged aspirations of justice and equality.

By his words and actions, Trump is facilitating, proliferating the spread of Covid-19

An American president must never again be allowed to fully manage a response to any pandemic. That responsibility must be assigned to scientists and other medical experts.