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.
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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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.