What’s one similarity between the economic policy agendas of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump? All three made the Walton family—the wealthiest family in the world—even richer. According to a new analysis by the union-led campaign Making Change at Walmart (MCAW), the combination of Bush’s 2003 tax cuts for the rich, Obama’s Read more about $6.5 Billion: A Low-Ball Estimate of the Walton Family's Haul After 16 Years of Bush, Obama, and Trump Tax Giveaways[…]

Ignoring once more the existential necessity of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and transitioning to a global energy system powered by renewable sources, the Trump administration on Wednesday delivered another major victory for Big Oil by quietly approving a Texas company’s plan to drill in federal Arctic waters six miles off the coast of Read more about 'Disaster Waiting to Happen' as Trump Quietly Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project in Arctic Waters Off Alaska Coast[…]

If the latest warnings contained in Monday’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—which included pronouncements that the world has less than twelve years to drastically alter course to avoid the worst impacts of human-caused global warming and that nothing less than keeping all fossil fuels in the ground is the solution to Read more about What's Not in the Latest Terrifying IPCC Report? The "Much, Much, Much More Terrifying" New Research on Climate Tipping Points[…]

Ahead of the United States’ newest round of sanctions targeting his country, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday accused the Trump administration of “psychological and economic warfare” and of working toward regime change in Iran. Speaking at Tehran University, Rouhani expressed outrage amid rising tensions following President Donald Trump’s breach of the 2015 nuclear deal Read more about Denounced by UN on Humanitarian Grounds, Trump's Sanctions Amount to 'Psychological and Economic Warfare,' Rouhani Says[…]

While her Republican opponent was accused of more “Banana Republic”-style antics on the eve of the mid-term elections, Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Monday responded by keeping a laser focus on what her strategy has largely been from the outset: a massive “Get Out the Vote” effort to overcome GOP suppression efforts. Local Read more about As Brian Kemp Goes All "Banana Republic" in Georgia, Stacey Abrams and Democrats Have This Plan: Massive Voter Turnout[…]

Just hours after President Donald Trump called CNN political reporter Jim Acosta a “rude, terrible person” during a post-midterm press conference, the White House suspended the journalist’s credentials on Wednesday night – a move that prompted outrage from the cable network and press freedom advocates called a “clear attack on the First Amendment.” As CNN Read more about "Clear Attack on the First Amendment": Authoritarian Trump Denounced for Stripping Press Credentials From CNN's Jim Acosta[…]

In a victory for press freedom, a federal judge on Friday granted CNN‘s emergency motion to immediately restore White House correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials, which were revoked by the Trump administration last week after a chaotic post-midterm press conference. Over a dozen news organizations announced their support for CNN‘s lawsuit against the Trump administration this Read more about In Victory for Free Press, Judge Rules Trump Must Immediately Restore Jim Acosta's Press Pass[…]

As communities most impacted by the climate crisis ramp up demands for urgent global action, atmospheric concentrations of the top three greenhouse gases driving global warming have hit record high levels, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) out Thursday. “Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have increasingly destructive Read more about Warnings of 'Destructive and Irreversible Impacts' as Greenhouse Gases Hit Highest Levels in 3-5 Million Years[…]

An analysis out Tuesday from Transparency International “reveals the United States as a key country to watch in a global pattern of stagnating anti-corruption efforts and a worldwide crisis of democracy,” according to the group, with the U.S. rank on a global index plummeting by four points in just the past year under President Donald Read more about With Trump Seen as 'Symptom Not a Cause,' US Rank Plummets on Global Corruption Index[…]

The Tuscan Grand Prix was a three-part chaotic affair, but Daniil Kvyat would have liked “a few more crazy things” to happen to help him improve on his P7 finish. Kvyat cycled his way through and around the mayhem to secure his fourth top-ten finish of the 2020 season, his best year-to-date, thanks to a Read more about Kvyat was hoping for ‘a few more crazy things’ at Mugello[…]