Senators to Obama: Stop Censoring the Torture Report
The release of a long-delayed investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 interrogation methods was held up yet again on Tuesday after the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee...
View ArticleWho’s Buying the Midterm Elections? A Bunch of Old White Guys
This is the year of the mega-donor: just 42 people are responsible for nearly a third of super PAC spending in the 2014 election cycle. Continue reading The post Who’s Buying the Midterm Elections? A...
View ArticleHow Ferguson Uses Cops and the Courts to Prey on Its Residents
The DoJ report traces the pattern of racial bias from traffic stops to arrests to the courtroom and, finally, to a cycle of incarceration and indebtedness. Continue reading The post How Ferguson Uses...
View ArticleHow a Right-Wing Political Machine Is Dismantling Higher Education in North...
What began as isolated ideological attacks is looking more and more like a wholesale gutting of the state’s public colleges. Continue reading The post How a Right-Wing Political Machine Is Dismantling...
View ArticleIf You Thought the Reproductive-Health Crisis in Texas Couldn’t Get Worse, Well…
The state’s move to cut Planned Parenthood off Medicaid funding will further limit poor women’s access to care. Continue reading The post If You Thought the Reproductive-Health Crisis in Texas Couldn’t...
View ArticleWhy Are Poor Americans Dying So Much Earlier Than Rich Americans?
For a poor woman born in the Roaring Twenties, getting to age 50 was something of an accomplishment. She had to contend with diphtheria and tuberculosis, hookworm and polio, not to mention childbirth,...
View ArticleThe Big Lie at the Heart of the Texas Abortion Clinic Case
In the summer of 2013, Texas enacted a law “to improve the standard of care for abortion patients.” That’s what the state’s Attorney General has told the Supreme Court lawmakers intended to do, anyway....
View ArticleHere’s the 1 Thing Countries Have to Do to Meet the 2-Degree Climate Target
Next month, the Paris climate agreement will enter into force. Major greenhouse-gas emitters, including the United States, China, Brazil and India, have approved it; the European Union became the...
View ArticleTrump’s Climate Order May Make it Harder to Prepare for Natural Disasters
Last August, torrential downpours and flooding damaged some 55,000 homes in Louisiana. Thirteen people died, while the governor estimated the material damage to be $9 billion. It was one of 15 natural...
View ArticleSenate Republicans Hope You Won’t Notice They’re About to Repeal Obamacare
Last week, while everyone was distracted by former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put the Republican health care overhaul on fast track. His caucus is...
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