Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, along with more than 100 Democrats and one Republican, called for President Donald Trump‘s removal after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, leaving four dead and injuring multiple members of the Capitol Police. “This man is deadly. …
Read More »Why Georgia Needs Two New Senators
Kelly Loeffler had been a senator for just a few weeks when she found herself at the pulpit of the Rev. Raphael Warnock’s church in Atlanta. He was only 10 days from entering the race for her senate seat, but she was still included as part of the speaking lineup …
Read More »Trump's Gone, So What's Next for the Democrats?
Now what? After four years of manias and catastrophizing, with constant warnings about the “existential threat” posed by Donald Trump, the monster is dead. Trump, the democratic Saddam, has lost, and his metaphorical statue will soon be dragged out of the White House, to the cheers of nearly every pundit …
Read More »More Than 70 Science and Climate Journalists Challenge Supreme Court Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett
The following op-ed has been signed by dozens of leading climate and science journalists, listed below. We are science and climate journalists. We are researchers and weavers of information, creating a fabric that explains the work of scientists who themselves are working to describe our natural world and universe. We …
Read More »Trump Rambles Endlessly During New Video From Walter Reed
President Trump ended a Saturday of confusing mixed messages from White House officials and Walter Reed Medical Center doctors about practically everything surrounding his positive test for the coronavirus by releasing a muddled video statement recap of his current situation that cleared nothing up. In the video, the president first …
Read More »Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19
President Trump and the first lady have tested positive for Covid-19, putting the incumbent in indefinite quarantine just a month before the 2020 election. The president is currently experiencing “mild” symptoms; Vice President Mike Pence has tested negative. Trump tweeted the news late Thursday night.“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive …
Read More »The No Lives Matter President
Oregon governor Kate Brown, until Friday, could not get President Donald Trump on the phone. She noted this the day before, when she also revealed her state has never seen this amount of uncontained wildfire. The skies have turned into a literal hellscape and more than one million acres have …
Read More »How the Trump Team Tried to Silence Lev Parnas
In October 2019, Lev Parnas found himself in a Virginia jail, wondering what had happened to his life. Only days earlier, Parnas had been at the center of Trump’s Washington, holding court at the president’s Washington hotel, traveling around the world, and mixing with powerful and well-connected figures. Then, Parnas’ …
Read More »Can We Learn to Live With Less? Covid-19 and the Debate on 'Degrowing' the Economy
This article was originally published by Grist, and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. In 1968, a small group of elite academics, industrialists, and government officials gathered at a Roman villa to discuss “the predicament of mankind.” They called themselves the Club of Rome, and, in a …
Read More »Jake Tapper: 'Trump Stands With Dead, Racist Losers' by Honoring Confederate Commanders
Once again, President Trump has decided to stand with racism and align himself with America’s racist history. With protests sparked nationwide by racist police brutality, a new effort has begun to rename U.S. military bases that are named after confederate officers, but the current president won’t consider the issue. He …
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