‘We Are Writing the Rules,’ Says Obama. Who’s ‘We’?
President Obama is using a sales pitch to get the public and Congress to "swallow the glob of global corporate greed known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership." But why is he acting for these self-serving corporate powers?
Thousands in Baghdad Protest Lack of Electricity and Services, Demand End of Corruption (Video)
Thousands gathered in the sweltering heat in downtown Baghdad’s Liberation Square protesting against corruption and lack of electricity—a political crisis underlining the dangers of fossil fuels.
The feuding kleptocrats
The kleptocrats, in the end, have only one real enemy: us.
Trump’s Tall Tax Tales
Donald is falsely framing his economic policies as good for working families, when he's really just protecting his own wealth.
Will the Paris Agreement be Trumped?
Whether or not the world confronts climate change could boil down to how Americans vote.
Why it’s time for Congress to launch a manufacturing renaissance
It’s important to remember that rebuilding the nation’s industrial base will be a losing battle without stopping the serial trade cheaters who undercut U.S. producers and kill thousands of American jobs each year.
Joe Biden, anti-interventionist president?
If the Biden Administration has successfully pulled away from the unpopular and unwinnable ‘War on Terror’, why aren’t they taking credit for it and winning over the segment of the U.S. population that might rally behind him for doing so?
When progress misleads: The hidden baseline problem in public-interest advocacy
Claims of success in animal welfare, climate policy, and corporate sustainability often rely on narrow metrics that obscure whether real-world harms are actually declining.
Gorsuch shouldn’t be confirmed until we know the person who picked him is cleared...
Neil Gorsuch shouldn’t be confirmed until Trump comes clean.
Removing hydropower dams can restore ecosystems, build climate resilience, and restore tribal lands
Hydropower dams, initially celebrated as feats of engineering, are now scrutinized for their negative environmental and societal impacts.