Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy pushes natural gas as climate solution at contentious town hall...
Senator Cassidy assures his consituents there will be oversight, but how can he when he is sorely out of touch?
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 3, 2018
7 hospitalized after pipeline explosion, Senate Democrats agree to major military spending, White House rolls back fuel economy standards, and more.
White nationalism in the White House: Administration faces new revelations about ties to far...
Multiple people close to Donald Trump have direct ties to white supremacists.
8 midterms: Blue wave, red undertow
The 2018 election exposed once more how divided the country is – but it also showed how strongly the tide is running against Trump’s hateful brand of politics and the party that he continues to deform.
‘Lesser Evil’ Fallacy Upended by Obama, Now Sanders
President Obama has proved what happens when a seemingly once-a-generation chance for reform is sabotaged. Now Bernie Sanders, with a cleaner, more progressive record, is grabbing the reform baton. But will he succeed?
Venezuela: No to intervention, no to Maduro
The left has a proud tradition of both democracy and anti-imperialism. It’s critical to keep both traditions in mind when addressing the current crisis in Venezuela.
EPA’s plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a drop in the...
Political and social factors, as well as pressure from industry, can lead to wide disparities in exposure, with some communities protected and others left vulnerable.
‘It’s almost like grooming’: how anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and the far-right came together over...
They appear to have found fertile ground particularly among men who feel alienated, fearful about their employment and who spend a lot of time at home scrolling social media and encrypted messaging apps.
New abortion law in Georgia criminalizes abortion after six weeks. Women who do face...
"Bans like this have always been blocked by courts. We will be suing Georgia to make sure this law has the same fate."
Progressives slam GOP’s ‘shameful’ attempt to add another $25 billion to Pentagon budget
"It's time to fix our broken budget priorities, and start putting human needs over Pentagon greed."