Tag: Congress
Congresswoman Jayapal misses the mark by saying Biden deserves an ‘A’...
To effectively confront the enormous problems facing our country and world, progressives need to soberly assess everything—good, bad and mixed.
‘Shameful’: Millionaire senators vote against popular minimum wage raise that would...
"It is baffling that any member of the U.S. Senate could look at the crisis this country is enduring and decide that tens of millions of low-income workers should not get a raise."
Why Biden can’t govern from the center
It requires a recognition that there is no longer a “center” but a future based either on lies, violence and authoritarianism or on unyielding truth, unshakeable civility and radical inclusion.
‘Co-conspirators in sedition’: Here are the names of every Republican who...
Trump and members of Congress must face consequences for inciting an attempted coup to stop the peaceful transition of power.
Bernie releases statement on GOP blocking $2,000 stimulus checks
“At a time when so many Americans are facing economic desperation, it is tragic that the Republican leadership has turned their backs on the working families of this country."
‘Pathetic’: Congress passes COVID relief bill with billions in gifts for...
"I have watched as many of my colleagues rush to provide billions to corporations and wealthy individuals, while admonishing the needs of the majority of families."
Congress’s Covid relief bill includes direct checks. It’s still not enough...
“It’s just staggering that Congress can’t come together to help people in their time of need.”
Citing ‘big mistakes’ made in Covid-19 fight, Khanna and Warren lead...
“The current administration’s response has exposed serious flaws in the country’s ability to combat large scale public health challenges.”
A democratic fantasy of creating two new states that will create...
Democrats will simply have to stop being the party of Wall Street and the arms industry and start passing legislation that actually benefits the people.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.