Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Tag: Election 2016

3M to pay $10.3 billion to settle water pollution suit over...

“We have reached the largest drinking water settlement in American history, which will be used to help filter PFAS from drinking water that is served to the public.”

13 Russians criminally charged for interfering in US presidential election

“Still think this Russia thing is a hoax and a witch hunt? Because a lot of witches just got indicted.”

The Democrats’ new agenda is everything that’s wrong with the party

More bland messaging and populist posturing won’t save the Democrats. The party needs to take a bold stand against corporate power.

Kissing the specious present goodbye

Did history begin anew last November 8th?

Is it possible to undo 2016?

Bureaucracy may constrain the worst of Trump and Brexit, but real fixes have to come from the bottom-up.

Hillary Clinton: ‘I take responsibility for every decision I made, but...

“I had no control over the Russians...”

Dems doom 2018 chances by labeling Trump a Russian puppet, not...

By the time the Trump nightmare is over in 2024, the country, like its by then water-logged coastlines, will be hard to recognize.

In its defense against fraud suit from Bernie supporters, the DNC...

If the party wants to favor a candidate, that’s its own business, argues DNC lawyer.

Texas voter ID law led to fears and failures in 2016...

Efforts to implement the nation’s strictest voter ID requirements – a solution in search of a problem, according to one critic – foundered amid court defeats, confusion and at least one giant oversight.

How the Russia spin got so much torque

Tone deaf hardly describes the severe political impairment of those who insist that denouncing Russia will be key to the Democratic Party’s political fortunes.

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Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from a swamp of...

On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.

Sanders pushes ‘Pensions for All’ to confront corporate greed and America’s retirement crisis

With nearly half of older workers having no retirement savings, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces sweeping legislation to guarantee all Americans the same pension security enjoyed by members of Congress.

Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare...

Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.

Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump  

Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?

Trump turns on MAGA over Epstein files as transparency backlash grows

Trump once capitalized on Epstein conspiracy theories to galvanize his base. Now, facing demands for accountability, he lashes out at the very supporters who helped propel him back into power.