Sunday, July 27, 2025

No, Not Nixon, Not China

“I will make only one prediction: the Nobel Peace Prize committee will emphatically not offer that to Trump nor Kim.”

Climate and the U.S. election

The U.S. election in November is critical, not just because of Donald Trump’s neo-fascisinm, but primarily because if the climate-change-denying and fossil-fuel supporting Republican Party retains power.

$2.5 trillion asset manager installs statue of fearless girl in front of Wall Street...

On the eve of International Women’s Day, The Fearless Girl statue was installed to highlight a lack of gender diversity and equality in the workplace.

US media must scrutinize Biden presidency – not celebrate it – if they want...

Journalists and those who hold their purse-strings will have to find a new enemy if they wish to keep their increased ratings – and maybe even their reputation of being a critical eye – intact when Biden becomes president in January.
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The Kavanaugh cover-up? Role in torture & domestic spying policy remains unknown as papers...

“I’m 18, and I’m here for the youth of the country. You’re ruining my future.”
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Are progressives suffering from ‘Trump fatigue’?

Every time you take some comfort in a successful lawsuit against the dark side, a whole new set of evils are rolled out.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 2

Amazon adopts $15 minimum wage, California bans animal-tested cosmetics and becomes first state to require women on corporate boards, and more.

Republicans currently in the driver’s seat but Democrats are sitting in the catbird seat

Why are Republicans relentlessly following this negative, destructive agenda?

Chris Hedges and Nikhil Goyal discuss how to save the American education system

The American education system is “a system of social control.”

‘Hard to overstate how big this is’: Joe Manchin signals he is open to...

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia signaled Sunday that he would be open to reforming the archaic rule to make it "more painful" for the minority to wield as a tool of endless obstruction.