It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Dysfunction and Deadlock at the Federal Election Commission
A 2015 Bloomberg poll found that at least 87 percent of Americans favored changes to campaign finance laws so that wealth does not dictate political influence – yet our FCC continues to betray the American public and jeopardize our democracy.
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Challenging London, Renewables Are Flexing Power Across the British Isles
From Scotland to Wales to Northern Ireland, renewable energy is growing and innovating, and a bottom-up green revolution is showing it can undercut a toxic national government in London.
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Guerrilla Archivists Developed an App to Save Science Data from the Trump Administration
Enthusiasm for guerrilla archiving is skyrocketing, with “data rescues” and all-day archiving marathons being held across the continent – from Toronto, Philadelphia, New York and Chicago to Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Boston, and Michigan.
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A Crackdown On Our Right to Stand Up
Republican-led legislatures are trying to push through laws to criminalize dissent in the hopes of stopping the growing fight against the right.
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Belated Valentine To Wells Fargo: How To Break Up With Your Bank
As George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
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Hate Groups Increase for Second Consecutive Year as Trump Electrifies Radical Right
A new report found that the number of hate groups operating in 2016 rose to 917 – up from 892 in 2015 – and that the most dramatic growth was the near-tripling of anti-Muslim hate groups, from 34 in 2015 to 101 last year.
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"A Post-Western Age": Munich Security Report Details Fragile World Order
With the rise of populism threatening the international order, the report warns of an "illiberal moment" globally—and the withdrawal of the U.S. on the world stage could allow others to take advantage of the power vacuum.
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UK to Trump: Bugger Off, You’re Not Welcome Here!
Trump's first weeks in office have resulted in almost every city and town in the U.K. hosting some kind of anti-Trump procession.
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Restaurants, Schools Close in "Day Without Immigrants" protest
Immigrants across the country went on strike Thursday to highlight their economic importance to a new administration that has taken a hard-line stance on immigration policies.
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How a Russian Steel Oligarch and Putin Ally Is Profiting from the Keystone XL Pipeline
DeSmog has uncovered that 40 percent of the steel created so far for KXL was manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz – a company partly owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who is a close ally of Putin and a Trump family friend.
