Where free speech ends, ignorance begins
Recent attempts to quash the right to speak reflect a fever of know-nothing intolerance afflicting the nation.
Meet the top EPA environmental justice official who quit to protest Pruitt & Trump
Mustafa Ali helped launch the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice in 1992.
The dance of death
Idiots and charlatans, the handmaidens of death, lure us into the abyss.
U.S. attorney Preet Bharara was investigating Fox News when Trump fired him
Reports indicate Trump may pick one of Roger Ailes’ former lawyers to replace Bharara.
Doubling down on dystopia
Preventing the triumph of Trump’s will.
Paul Ryan fundraised with health insurance lobbying firm just before his powerpoint
Records show Ryan spent much of the year flying to resorts and huddling with lobbyists to raise huge amounts of cash to maintain his party’s control of the House of Representatives.
Trump’s war on the truth tellers
Trump is actively destroying the truth-telling institutions our democracy depends on.
U.S. Attorney fired after refusing Trump’s order to resign
“I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the U.S. Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.”
Why Trump (and Bannon) mirror ISIS
If this is the president's secret plan to defeat ISIS, they could have written it themselves.
Exxon, Peabody coal lobby for bill poised to load EPA science board with polluters
“That is a science advisory board – it will not function better by having fewer scientists on it."