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Tag: Trump administration

Why Manafort and Cohen thought they’d get away with it

It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals.

White nationalism in the White House: Administration faces new revelations about...

Multiple people close to Donald Trump have direct ties to white supremacists.

Trump administration admits 1,400+ more people will die each year following...

Trump recently announced a massive rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations on coal-fired power plants and carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate change.

Donald Trump: Weapon of mass distraction

Donald Trump is not only the perfect vehicle to shred regulations, he’s also a powerful distraction from the ongoing for-profit war against nature itself.

Six potential lessons from our most debased presidency

To restore America, we need both vilify Trump for what he is – and defy his gang – but also reluctantly face how epic excesses clarity our moral, intellectual and political choices.

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 16, 2018

Intellectually bankrupt GOP, California cities pledge to oppose offshore drilling, White House revokes security clearance of ex-CIA director, and more.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 10, 2018

Trump rule would give $2.5 billion tax cut to big bank fat cats, Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting asylum seekers, Argentina Senate votes against legalizing abortion, and more.

‘Major victory for public health:’ Court orders Trump EPA to ban...

"Children, farmworkers, rural families, and science are all huge winners today... EPA's job is to protect public health, not industry profits."

US Fish and Wildlife Service lifts ban on neonicotinoids linked to...

"Industrial agriculture has no place on public lands dedicated to conservation of biological diversity and the protection of our most vulnerable species, including pollinators like bumble bees and monarch butterflies."

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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back

Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.

Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...

The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.

The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace

Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.

DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.