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The Department of Education secretary has been uniquely brazen, and unpatriotic, in her deregulation campaign. It’s time that she answered for her actions.
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Baseless online conspiracies about the justice’s health marred her absence.
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In what continues to be a truly wild February for the books, the publisher of a small-town Alabama paper published an op-ed calling for the Klu Klux Klan to clean out Washington, D.C.—nooses preferred.
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Mass killings on school grounds account for a very small percent of victims, but they capture far more public attention than other shootings.
read moreThe Bitter Origins of the Figh...
What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us
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High-speed trains already compete with planes in many parts of the world. They also have far lower carbon emissions.
read moreWhat a Sen. Mark Kelly Could M...
The Trump administration thinks the next frontier is the moon—but Kelly doesn’t agree.
read moreAt UN, there’s no US ambassado...
Does President Trump want anything from the United Nations? Judging from the slow pace at which he has moved to replace Nikki Haley, experts say, not much. But that could still change.
read moreWhen Wall Street Is Your Landl...
Incentivized by the federal government, institutional investors became major players in the rental market. They promised to return profits to their investors and convenience to their tenants. Investors are happy. Tenants are not.
read moreNew bill aims to reverse the G...
“This bill calls a halt to the Administration’s headlong rush to sell off this special wilderness to corporate polluters.”
read moreElizabeth Warren wants to ban ...
This 12-word bill could change how we use nuclear weapons.
read moreCity in Arizona approves resol...
The resolution called the razor wire “not only irresponsible, but inhumane” and argues that this type of wall “is only found in a war, prison or battle setting.”
read moreIs employer-sponsored insuranc...
Company insurance is deeply entrenched and poses a big challenge to Medicare-for-all — but costs for those plans are on the rise.
read moreRuth Bader Ginsburg Cancer Con...
The closed networks provide an unaccountable and practically invisible platform for misinformation.
read moreValve turners try to shut off ...
Four climate activists attempted to shut down the Enbridge Line 3 and Line 4 pipelines, which carry oil from Canada’s tar sands region into the U.S., on Monday.
read moreHealthcare Disparities and Dia...
More people than ever before depend on the federal government for health insurance in the form of Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Despite this, political debate constantly rages around whether or not to expand or reduce the government’s role in healthcare…
read moreTaxing the rich is extremely p...
A 70 percent top rate polls well; Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax polls even better.
read moreSenator Sanders asks why drug,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to Catalyst Pharmaceuticals on Monday asking it to justify its decision to charge $375,000 annually for a medication that for years has been available to patients for free.
read moreTrump’s EPA Refuses to Limit t...
The Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency does not plan to set a legal limit for two nasty chemicals that lurk in some US drinking water, Politico reported this week.
read moreDemocratic legislator invites ...
The young immigrant who recently made history as the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient to win the prestigious Rhodes scholarship will be Rep. Grace Meng’s guest to Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech next week.
read moreThe largest-ever U.S. fentanyl...
The truck was transporting cucumbers, but something much more dangerous was hidden inside: fentanyl, the extremely potent narcotic that has contributed to the epidemic of overdose deaths in the United States in recent years.
read moreElephant seals took over a Pt....
You know the saying: When the cat’s away the mice will play. It appears the Bay Area is ready to coin a new turn of phrase: When the rangers are gone the elephant seals will swarm.
read moreNobel Prize-winning economist ...
Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman truly hates conservatives posing as centrists or even as serious economists and the clueless beltway reporters that prop them up.
read moreBolsonaro Wants to Plunder the...
The Brazilian president’s pro-business agenda will be a test of American companies’ commitment to the environment.
read moreWho stands to lose the most fr...
A new analysis from the Brookings Institution shows that many of the states and counties with the most to lose from climate change have been voting for candidates least likely to do something about it.
read moreElizabeth Warren Does Teddy Ro...
Taxing the superrich is an idea whose time has come — again.
read moreThe Trump administration wants...
Fewer people getting SNAP benefits can lead to more skipped meals
read moreMichigan drops out of lawsuits...
Hey, look: Elections have consequences. New Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced that her office will be dropping the state from Republican-pushed lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency.
read moreNew Congressional report issue...
“The effects of a changing climate are a national security issue with potential impacts to Department of Defense (DoD or the Department) missions, operational plans, and installations.”
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