How to respond to EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s lie about carbon dioxide and climate
Don’t argue with Pruitt or his Koch Brother-funded cousins. Close down the coal plants. End coal.
Can we protect our children from the government?
As part of back-to-school preparations, teachers are patrolling their schools against ICE arrests of students and their families.
We Should All Start ‘Taking Responsibility’ for our Transgressions
Stumpf stood up and said he "takes responsibility" for what happened at Wells Fargo. And now he gets to go on running a banking operation that is little more than a criminal syndicate.
Amped-up Age of Anxiety weaponized into Age of Nostalgia
Today, alas, confirms the truth of Pete Hamill’s quip, “The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.”
The federal government shouldn’t be trying to salvage our broken food system—we need a...
Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals.
Trump’s bonkers budget
Trump’s spending and tax priorities are not in the best interest of most Americans.
One-stop fix to the election rejection scam: Demand candidates must accept the ...
If we don’t stop this scourge of election rejection, then the future (and innate rights) of citizen voting are bleak
How Biden protected workers during the debt ceiling fight
The deal protects Social Security and other lifelines while raising the debt ceiling for two years and safeguarding the world economy.
Donald Trump’s Call for Spying on U.S. Muslims Recalls FBI Bugging of MLK and...
Mr. Trump is correct that “it has been done before.” The question is whether it ought to have been done before, whether it was constitutional when it was done before.
The myth of the rugged individual
The American dream promises that anyone can make it if they work hard enough and play by the rules. Anyone can make...