Tag: President Biden
US bans Russian oil but activists want broader break with fossil...
Phasing out the consumption of fossil fuels is seen as critical in both the fight against the climate crisis and the violence of petrostates.
U.S. sanctions on Afghanistan could be deadlier than 20 years of...
The collective punishment of Afghans is hideously wrong -- and the Biden administration can ease it with the stroke of a pen.
Even this Biden-voting billionaire ignores the full downsides of obscene fortunes
Tax reforms must address willful blindness about the menace of concentrated wealth.
Warren warns ‘corporate vultures’ are circling Medicare on Biden’s watch
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday joined physicians and dozens of her House Democratic colleagues in urging the Biden administration to immediately halt...
Biden urged not to fight court ruling against massive oil and...
The Biden administration on Tuesday faced pressure from environmentalists to adhere to a judge's decision blocking a massive oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, site of the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Biden at one
In its first year in office, the Biden administration has done a reasonably good job of reversing the idiocies of its predecessor....
Biden considering deploying thousands of troops to eastern Europe
U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly weighing a Pentagon proposal to deploy thousands of American troops to the Baltics and Eastern Europe...
Promises kept? Joe Biden’s first year at home and abroad
When President Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was followed by the election of two Democratic senators in Georgia, it looked...
After a year of Biden, why do we still have Trump’s...
President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would...
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$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful public education programs
“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
Trump delivers lunch to Beijing
China is taking advantage of the fact that even the most even-tempered of allies have had it with Trump and his tantrums.
The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news?
Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.
EPA reapproves drift-prone pesticide dicamba
This decision will allow farmers in 34 states to use the herbicide on dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton, following a 2024 court ruling that had previously vacated its use.