Saturday, June 7, 2025

Tag: Congress

Ban fracking now

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How the Trump administration responds to Democrats’ demands for information: it...

Congressional Democrats’ letters to the Trump administration are going unanswered.

Fact check: Trump’s address to Congress

The president distorted the facts on jobs, immigration, health insurance, war spending and more.

Danger ahead: Trump, Pompeo, the Kochs and the end of diplomacy

Trump says he will rely on his advisors. He has to as he knows nothing about policy, the world, the working class he always goes on about, or government in general.

Why so many people loathe Congress

Speaker Ryan himself wallows in a mud pit of congressional entitlements that working stiffs couldn't imagine.

Will Obama’s offshore drilling ban be Trumped?

What can a new president and a new congress do?

Cleaning the corporate dirt from the GOP budget

The Clean Budget Coalition is asking President Obama to heed Sen. Warren’s call, take a strong stand on such riders, and use his last days in office to oppose these right-wing corporate giveaways and underhanded attacks on workers, immigrants and women.

Take back the house

As Trump’s coalition begins to crumble, will the Democrats propose a more credible (and more widely believed) alternative than what they just put forward?

Hillary Clinton didn’t break the glass ceiling, but these female lawmakers...

The 115th United States Congress will have the highest percentage of women legislators in its history.

It’s Citizens Who Will Save Us From Citizens United

Constitutional amendment organizers are confident of an eventual victory. “The push toward justice has always started at the grassroots.”

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Is there a crack in Western support for genocide? 

The shift in political rhetoric among Israel's traditional Western allies continues as it ratchets up its campaign to make life in Gaza so impossible for Palestinians that they will submit to ethnic cleansing.

Oceans in peril as governments stall on promises ahead of UN summit in Nice

With coral bleaching, illegal fishing, and fossil fuel expansion threatening marine ecosystems, global leaders gather in France amid mounting criticism over broken pledges and underfunded protections.

The far right’s tipping point

Over the last decade, the world has suffered bouts of political whiplash as right-wing populists and their opponents have battled it out at the ballot box.

Where is the AI safety movement?

There’s the prospect of super intelligent AI outpacing human control altogether. So where are the humans in all this?