Germany blazes past US, setting new record for renewable energy production
Germany is the champion among industrialized economies in going green.
Free as you can afford to be
GOP leaders want to protect your "freedom" to be poor, powerless, sick, and uninsured.
Republicans craft health care plan to screw Trump voters
There is at least a small irony in the fact that millions of Trump voters will be frontline losers if Trumpcare gets signed into law.
Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky: How the US became an oligarchy that makes war...
Chris Hedges talks with Noam Chomsky on the state of affairs in America and hope for the future.
Why we need to know what Trump says behind closed doors
We need activism: against Trump and the powerful interests he represents, and against a political system that gives too much power to wealthy corporate donors and too little power to the people.
Unheralded national popular vote push to remedy ‘elitist’ Electoral College
You’d think today’s majority, rebuffed twice in 16 years with two wingnut, minority presidents, would rage against the non-democratic, distortion-laden Electoral College. You’d think that hapless, vision-less Democrats would crusade against what put dim Dubya, then crazed, scatter-gun Trump in power.
On July fourth, a message for patriots
On this holiday, and every day, that flag and the promise it symbolizes are not Trump’s supporters to abuse, but belong to a nation that will uphold and someday vindicate them.
The Trump-Putin meeting and the fate of the Earth
The imminent meeting between Trump and Putin will affect the chances that the young people we love – and so many others around the world – will have a future.
The battle over what it means to be female
“How do we explore these rights for transgender folks in a way that does not undermine the rights of women or people of color?”
Trump’s escalating assault on the press
Will news organizations be intimidated?