Tag: Midterm Elections 2018
These voters had to wait for hours: ‘It felt like a...
Many would-be voters’ first attempts were foiled by problems at polling places. There isn’t good data on how many people ultimately don’t cast a ballot.
36 million in US cast early votes, shattering records for young...
“We’re seeing a lot more people that typically sit out midterm elections going and showing up because they believe these races are so important.”
There is no planet B: Vote like the planet depends on...
"If you're a climate voter, get out there and VOTE – but if you can, don't stop there. Take action like the planet depends on it. Because it does."
Bernie Sanders reminds people to get out and vote by showing...
Republicans' plans are a disaster for middle class working people and the planet but a blessing for the mega-rich.
Noam Chomsky on midterms: Republican Party is the ‘most dangerous organization...
“Very straightforward: lavish gifts on the rich, powerful corporate sector and try to undermine and destroy anything that might be of benefit to the general population.”
Why we must vote every Republican out of office
While Trump and his Republican enablers manufacture false threats to America, they dismiss the real threats to America that are growing worse by the day.
Marijuana is on the ballot in four states, but legalization may...
Strong public support and successive waves of state-level legalization in election years has led many policy analysts to argue that marijuana has reached a tipping point in the United States.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
F is for Failure and Fascism
On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.