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Cleaning the Corporate Dirt From the GOP Budget
Lawmakers are now working on a budget that could make or break the balance sheet for families.
Life Under Trump: Night Terrors and Daytime Hopes
When people decide that they are human beings and not beasts of burden, that is a genie no one can shove back into the bottle.
Don’t Be Passive Observers of Last Night’s Terrorization in Standing Rock: Here’s What You Can Do
Last night, as the temperature in Standing Rock plunged below 30 degrees, hundreds were blasted with water cannons.
Neocons, War Criminals and White Nationalists: Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Incoming Advisers and Cabinet
Jeremy Scahill examines the “team of rivals” Trump is considering for key appointments to his cabinet.
How Global Climate Action Can Still Succeed Despite Trump
The most promising actions require relatively small amounts of appropriate public support rather than large amounts of US finance to set up a new carbon market in agricultural offsets.
Street Heat: Does the Hancock Reaper Drone Base Feel the Burn?
By our presence and by our signs, we seek to prick the conscience of the 174th's personnel, cogs in the Pentagon's war machine.
Bridging the Gap: Why Trump Should Meet With Green Energy CEO Elon Musk for Huge Job Creation
Donald Trump knows perfectly well why his coastal golf course in County Clare, Ireland, is under siege by rising sea levels.
Anti-Semitism in the White House: Stephen Bannon, Donald Trump and the Alt-Right
Moderate conservatives have legitimized the alt-right by adding their names to a white supremacist movement.
The Long Con: How the Republicans Played Trump Voters
Mike Pence has an odious track record as an elected official.
Trump-Loving GOP Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Define Protests as a Form of “Terrorism“
Sen. Doug Ericksen's bill is an obvious attack on citizens' First Amendment rights.