Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Tag: James King

VA official pleads guilty to bribery, fraud, and obstruction charges

From 2015 through 2017, James King used his position as a Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program counselor at the VA to demand bribes from the owners of at least three separate schools in exchange for funds using the veterans’ federal benefits.

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Trump’s second term delivers massive gains for billionaires as working Americans face cuts and...

New data and polling show wealth surging at the top under Donald Trump while healthcare, food assistance, and affordability erode for millions.

What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?

General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but to succeed they require an organized majority.

Ending republican control will require overcoming the democratic leadership

The last 12 months have shown that Donald Trump’s party is bent on methodically inflicting vast cruelty and injustice while aiming to crush what’s left of democracy and the rule of law.

How much ego-serving cataclysm must MAGA Trumpism wreak—before fierce adversaries resist?

Looking older, bedraggled and more deranged, Trump is running out of laws, rules, thresholds, institutions, alliances and Congressionally-mandated programs to burn down.

World to exceed 1.5°C heating threshold, extreme urgency for fossil fuel phaseout in new...

Current emissions trajectories mean the remaining "carbon budget" for a 50 percent chance of staying below 1.5°C will likely be depleted by 2030.