Trump’s rollback of civil rights
Trump has made clear his priorities: Benefit the most comfortable Americans and stick it to the most vulnerable.
The reign of Trump: Understanding crazy in Washington
The only way that Republicans will abandon Trump is if he actually becomes so much of a public embarrassment that he jeopardizes the re-election prospects of Republican senators and Representatives.
Coal is in a death spiral as India cancels new plants and solar prices...
The renewable energy sector in India already accounts for 60,000 jobs, and will add a similar number by 2022.
America’s Iran hysteria
The irrationality of Iran vilification.
DeVos budget robs from poor kids to fund schools that discriminate
What Trump and DeVos are proposing in this budget is not only to take resources away from students, but to turn around and give more money to schools that would potentially discriminate against them.
Third parties’ only hope: a new anti-duopoly Occupy
What’s now needed is not merely a movement devoted to a single group or issue, but a movement of movements embracing all the groups and interests stymied by bipartisan political corruption.
Noam Chomsky explains why ‘the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in world...
Has there ever been an organization in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on Earth?
How not to make the budget balance on the backs of the poor
Limiting deductions and exclusions would be rational, fiscally responsible, and fair.
Cut corporate taxes? This is how the biggest companies cheated on taxes in 2016
Ten companies mentioned in this report collectively withheld nearly $15 billion in tax money in 2016.
Why it’s getting harder (and more dangerous) to hold companies accountable
Corporations are using defamation lawsuits to shut down their detractors—and the problem is only getting worse.