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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Youth Challenge Trump Administration in Landmark Case on Climate Change
On Monday, Dec. 11, Kelsey Juliana and her 20 fellow youth plaintiffs will try to convince U.S. 9th Circuit Court judges that their climate case must go to trial before the U.S. Supreme Court as a matter of national urgency.
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With the GOP Tax Plan, a New Economic Epoch Begins
Ten years down the road, 20 years down the road, how will the lives that Americans lead change if this Republican tax plan gets to shape our national future? Not for the better, say the world’s most prolific inequality analysts.
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America's Homeless Population Rises for the First Time Since the Great Recession
A new government study finds that more than half a million people were homeless on a single night this year, as advocates lament a crisis that shows no sign of abating.
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Trump Takes a Stand For Corruption – By Withdrawing U.S. from Anti-Corruption Pact
Trump's hasty, under-reported move sent an unmistakable signal: corruption is tolerated if it helps line corporate pockets.
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Protests Nationwide as Vote on FCC's "Catastrophic" Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Looms
"Ajit Pai may be owned by Verizon, but he has to answer to Congress, and lawmakers have to answer to us, their constituents," said Evan Greer of Fight for the Future, which is helping lead the fight to preserve net neutrality.
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Women Line Up to Run for Office, Harnessing Their Outrage at Trump
In the 10 months before the 2016 election, about 1,000 women had contacted Emily's List, the largest national organization devoted to electing female candidates. Since the election, the number has exploded to more than 22,000.
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Trump White House Weighing Plans for Private Spies to Counter "Deep State" Enemies
Proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer, with assistance from Oliver North, would provide Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo with a global private spy network to circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies.
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In Crisis Britain, The Conservative Government's Slow Collapse Defies Gravity
It is a commonly held belief that the U.K. government is collapsing, yet it somehow limps on, despite social, economic, corruption and democratic crises.
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Inequality Out of Control: The Average 1% Household Made Over $2.5 Million in the Past Year
With inequality ripping us apart, and with few of our national leaders willing or able to confront the problem, we may never again be an equitable and functional society.
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Trump Outlines Big Cuts to Utah Monuments, Riling Tribes, Environmentalists
Trump has said former presidents abused the Antiquities Act by putting unnecessarily big chunks of territory off limits to drilling, mining, grazing, road traffic and other activities.
