Thursday, April 25, 2024

Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch for U.S. Supreme Court

Gorsuch has challenged the Obama administration’s requirements for employers to provide health insurance that includes contraception.

Thoughts on “It Can’t Happen Here”

Are we just going to give this a whirl and see where it ends while the rest of the world watches?

Billionaires arrive on private jets to solve inequality, while African children eat ashes

To really help the poorest countries, we need to do less: less military, less debt, and less corporate farming.

Ireland votes to become the world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels

“To have a fighting chance to combat catastrophic climate change, we must phase out fossil fuels.”

Canada will welcome refugees the U.S. is turning away

“The Prime Minister is looking forward to discussing the successes of Canada’s immigration and refugee policy with the President when they next speak.”

Trump ban leaves 12-year-old girl facing return to war-torn Yemen

The girl, whose parents are U.S. citizens, was barred from boarding a plane yesterday and is now in limbo in Djibouti.

The Goldman Sachs effect

How a bank conquered Washington

Wisconsin leads on climate research, even as agencies cut science from websites

“If you’re not recognizing that burning fossil fuels is causing climate change, then you’re not looking for solutions that reduce climate change.”

Trump and Bannon’s “America first”

This is truly scary.

Trump fires attorney general

The last president to fire an attorney general was Richard Nixon.