Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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On Electric Cars, the U.S. Is Stuck in the Slow Lane
While Europe races toward electric vehicles, U.S. automakers are actually trying to make cars less efficient.
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Protesters Facing Police Presence Blockade Oil Train in Vancouver, Washington
Our community and our planet are under attack, yet the political response has been amoral and inadequate. We were here on the tracks a year after the Mosier oil train derailment and nothing has changed,” said Jessie Braverman, a protester.
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are a Staggering $5 Trillion Per Year
A study was just published in the journal World Development that quantifies the amount of subsidies directed toward fossil fuels globally, and the results are shocking.
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Wells Fargo's Lyin' Cheatin' Ways: Banking with a Sociopathic Institution and How to Let Go
Let's face it: That harmless tall handsome stone wall that promises you the world, smiles at you shamelessly through bulletproof glass and marble floors, black suits and lollipops, is a sociopathic lover out to take all that you hold dear.
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New Documents Show Monsanto Execs Colluding With Corrupt EPA Officials to Manipulate Scientific Data
A new trove of company records released Tuesday provide fresh fuel for a heated debate over whether the agricultural chemical giant suppressed information about the potential dangers of its Roundup herbicide, and relied on regulators for help.
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European Cities Are Reclaiming Public Services From the Private Sector
The U.S. has a lot to learn from people-powered movements.
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London's "Land Banking" Ventures Expose Startling Wealth Inequality
"Numbers of households considered wealthy have shot up and so have households considered poor, leaving a shrinking middle" in London, where those able to buy property assets come almost exclusively from the top 1%.
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Kochs' and Trump Team Up to Cut Billionaires’ Taxes
The Kochs’ much-publicized hostility toward Donald Trump has been replaced by a strategic alliance between the ideologically extreme billionaire brothers and the ideologically fluid but equally self-serving businessman/president.
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Utilities Knew: Power Providers Deceived the Public on Climate Change for 50 Years
For half a century, electric utilities have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science, respond to climate change with disinformation, and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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The Brexit Hall of Mirrors: Doubts, Deliberations and No Clear Vision In Sight
With a government seemingly bent on backtracking on its promises and delaying negotiations, it's no wonder that many UK citizens – including large numbers of its politicians – are in a state of real unease about what the future might hold.
