Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tag: Biden

A leaking oil refinery on St. Croix gives Biden his first...

Nearly 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for the closure of a controversial oil and gas facility that has sickened residents of the U.S. Virgin Island.

How upskilling America will rebuild the middle class

Providing workers with a pathway for that upskilling will be essential to meeting the nation’s infrastructure needs.

Biden promised to end standardized testing in schools—it was never going...

In education policymaking in Washington, D.C., the “bean counters” are still in charge.

How Biden’s agenda is shaped by the corporate class

A national government that represents corporations and routinely lies to its voters needs Silicon Valley and the corporate press to maintain a stranglehold over the dissemination of information.

The American Rescue Plan is for real

“People are hurting enough already. They don’t need more worries about the future.”

Pandemic may have left over 250 million people with acute food...

As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries.

Why U.S. labor laws need a major update—the PRO Act is...

The PRO Act will help to level the playing field and arrest the decades-long erosion of labor rights that significantly accelerated under the previous, anti-worker presidential administration.

Restoring our water systems should be top priority for Biden administration

Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the “nice-to-have” column of environmental progress.

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The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 1. Photo: SpaceX (CC0)

The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.