The loudest boos of the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina on Saturday night came as billionaire real estate mogul and media personality Donald Trump reminded the audience that President George W. Bush, in fact, did not “keep us safe” on 9/11 and that when talking about the 2003 invasion of Iraq it’s important to […]
“The ‘war on drugs’ is an unmitigated disaster.” That’s the resounding judgement of three former Latin American heads of state who write in an op-ed published Friday in the Los Angeles Times that the best way to approach the problem is one that puts health and human rights first. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of […]
Hundreds of Gulf Coast residents and climate activists are protesting Wednesday at the Superdome in New Orleans, in a historic call to end federal offshore fossil fuel lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. #NoNewLeases Tweets The action is scheduled to coincide with Wednesday’s lease sale of 43 million acres in that very location—the first […]
Just one day after the coordinated attacks in Brussels, the resounding cry from governments, media, and national security experts is that we need less freedoms and more security. As they did in the wake of the Paris attacks, countries across the continent rushed to tighten border security in the immediate aftermath of Tuesday’s bombings, which […]
President Trump’s White House victory has inspired other celebrities to run for office. Trump’s rise to the presidency suggests that candidates from outside politics can have success, especially if they are a well-known name with the ability to harness the power of social media. Here are five celebrities who have already announced their candidacies. Antonio […]
Sen. Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsRepublicans prepare to punt on next COVID-19 relief bill Trump tweets spark fresh headache for Republicans Trump’s tweet on protester sparks GOP backlash MORE (R-Maine) on Monday said she’s unsure whether President Trump will be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2020. In an interview with MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson, Collins, who wrote in […]
Joseph Medicine Crow, the last living Plains Indian war chief and a passionate historian, died on Sunday at age 102. A member of the Crow tribe, Medicine Crow was an outspoken advocate for his people, whose suffering he witnessed in the wake of the U.S. government’s relegation of American Indian tribes to reservations and the […]
At the Vatican on Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders railed against everything from environmental destruction and the weakening of the rights of workers to widespread financial criminality on Wall Street and unregulated globalization. “Rather than an economy aimed at the common good, we have been left with an economy operated for the top 1 […]
Following President Obama’s promise to cut toxic methane leaks at oil and gas facilities, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced the U.S. government’s “first-ever” set of standards to reduce such emissions—but the new regulations were decried by environmentalist critics as not far-reaching enough. “This rule, which does nothing to stop dangerous methane leaks […]
As humanitarian groups plead with European officials to allow refugees safe passage—and as Europe closes its borders to asylum seekers—more and more people are risking their lives in the treacherous sea crossing from North Africa to Europe, with disastrous results. The Italian Coast guard announced Wednesday morning that a staggering 5,600 migrants had been rescued […]