Trump Stings the Bees, Lifting Ban on Fatal Pesticides and GMOs In Nature Refuges

By reversing an Obama-era policy, the Trump administration has put more than 50 wildlife refuges across the U.S. covering a total of 150 million acres under threat from GMO crops and deadly pesticides.

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America Needs A War on Waste–Not A War on Trade

The federal government could play a fundamental role helping restructure the nation's industry to focus more on recycling and producing remanufactured goods.

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Trump's Solution To Worldwide Climate Immigration Is To Build More Walls

Displaying his minimal understanding of geography and foreign policy, he suggested that Spain build a wall across the vast Sahara desert to stop the flow of migrants.

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The Billion Dollar Companies In the Business of Imprisoning Children

ICE does business with a lot of companies that are making big, big money imprisoning children. Now, Geo Group, Corecivic and General Dynamics are coming under increasing scrutiny.

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Whataboutism, Part II: How to Argue Politics with People You Don't Agree With

When your political opponents level accusations to cover up for obvious failings in their leaders and attack using irrelevant points, don’t take it lying down.

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Whataboutism, Part I: Trump's Rhetorical Technique To Subvert Political Discourse

To understand Donald Trump's rhetorical success, we must recognize his mastery of Whataboutism – employing the brutality of a personal attack to divert attention from any argument.

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Republicans Come Out Swinging Against Military Family Education

GOP lawmakers feel fine about asking citizens to fight and die for their country – but not about providing a proper education for those people's children.

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Our Data, Our Property: We Need New Laws To Prevent Facebook Abuse

If tech companies like Facebook won’t respect on any ethical or moral level that our data is our property, then laws must be written to codify those rights.

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The First Signs of a Global Climate Change Immigration Crisis Are Here

The Mekong Delta region is the canary in the coalmine – one of the first places in the world to feel the real and lasting effects of climate change, and a grim indication of what's to come.

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Is Drinking Water in the U.S. Safe? Not By a Long Shot

That nasty tasting water from the faucet that you’ve been rejecting in favor of an unhealthy soda might actually have unsafe quantities of lead, nitrates, arsenic and disease-causing pathogens.

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