Tag: conservatives
Why is the radical right still winning?
What that Protestant Reformation can teach us about the durability of far-right movements – and the order they seek to replace.
Mainstream media are trying to spin Nikki Haley as a moderate
During her tenure at the U.N., she advocated and defended extremist policies.
Republican chauvinists won this battle against women, but won’t win the...
But the good news is that women are going to make them pay a terrible price for their treachery in the very near future.
How Kavanaugh will change the Supreme Court
Based on what we know about measuring the ideology of justices and judges, the Supreme Court will soon take a hard and quick turn to the right.
Donald Trump’s ‘romantic nationalism’ takes the stage at the UN
"...it gives us a better idea of what the American left will be facing from this ‘new’ right for the foreseeable future..."
Money talks: Justice Kennedy’s retirement tied to the Trump family, Koch...
As Americans wait for answer regarding the two families' ties, conservative Republicans are all in on Trump's future nominee.
With Kennedy’s vacancy, only voting can check one-party rule
Trump will replace the last centrist on the Supreme Court. Now only voter pushback can restore balance to Congress.
Giving a pass to anti-Muslim bigotry
Islamophobia enters the government, is incorporated into the law, and becomes increasingly acceptable in America.
The caliphate of Trump
This particular cult did not come from nowhere, but from a land of growing extremity, a country that now, it seems, may be willing to preside over not just cities in ruin but a planet in ruin, too.
Fossil fuel interests ‘coached’ conservatives to reject climate science in US...
“I think it’s all about vested interests.”
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This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump
A multiracial crowd of all ages carrying witty signs and chanting: Their target was the commercial airline Avelo, which has proposed operating as an ICE subcontractor to carry out deportation flights.
Family sues fossil fuel giants for wrongful death in first climate disaster case of...
In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel...
Is Trump’s axis of the plutocrats marginalizing Israel?
President Trump managed to realign U.S. Middle Eastern policy to center on—and yes, it should be capitalized!—an Axis of the Plutocrats, Gulf sheikhs who are using their galactic fortunes to reshape the region.
US military vets and allies begin 40-day hunger strike for Gaza
The hunger strikers are gathering at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. for their action.
22 young Americans sue Trump administration to block executive orders pushing fossil fuels over...
In Lighthiser v. Trump, the youth plaintiffs say the administration’s actions violate their constitutional rights to life, health and safety and breach congressional mandates to safeguard public health and ecosystems.