Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Of budgets and beatitudes: The Pope meets the Donald

“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”

Trump’s budget delivers big oil’s wish: Reducing strategic petroleum reserve

Trump's budget plan would not only reduce the SPR storage to a level of 260 million barrels, it would shut down two of the four SPR sites.

Let the media coverage of Manchester victims be a model for all young victims...

“These terrorist attacks are not confined to Europe. They take place every single day in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan and Yemen, Bahrain.”
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Congressional candidate charged with assault for body-slamming reporter

On Wednesday night, at least three Montana newspapers rescinded their endorsements of Gianforte.

Trump administration says it isn’t anti-science as it seeks to slash EPA science office

The Office of Research and Development has been at the front line of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.

Taxpayers charged $7 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels on public lands

"This report makes it clear as day that the Trump agenda is the fossil fuel billionaire agenda."
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Terror and geopolitics: Manchester in 2017 and in 1996

Both Manchester bombings were reactions against a history of colonial shaping of the lives of local people.

Wash. Post didn’t disclose that writer who penned positive piece about Trump’s Saudi trip...

Why does the Post embarrass itself by publishing lobbyist Ed Rogers?

Using lunch to punish the poor

Nearly half of American school districts shame and stigmatize kids whose parents can't afford school lunches.