Yearly Archives: 2016
Bill O’Reilly: “Abolishing the electoral college” is “all about race”
O'Reilly: "The left wants power taken away from the white establishment"
The year of ‘post-truth’
Thanks to fake news and hyper partisanship, many of us can no longer distinguish facts from opinions – or lies.
The final Obama doctrine? Racking up the body count
Obama officials have repeatedly expressed a commitment to killing large numbers of ISIS fighters. Will Trump take it even further?
Bernie Sanders: “We need to change the electoral college”
Many politicians are disappointed in the election process and the electoral college this year.
Obama banned Arctic and Atlantic offshore drilling and Big Oil isn’t happy
Big Oil hopes that the Trump administration will reverse the decision.
5 tips on how to talk climate change this holiday season
The trick is to use patience, tolerance, an optimistic tone – and last, but not least, a keen understanding of your audience – to nudge your climate-skeptic sister or father-in-law.
Why I kneeled before Standing Rock elders and asked for forgiveness
“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”
Senate Democrats should block all Trump Supreme Court nominee
Republicans did not let Garland Merrick come up for a vote. Why should Democrats allow someone else to?
TrumPutin: Jobs, security, and buyer’s remorse
The Trump cabinet is defining itself as a military junta with predatory extractive capitalist cronies and climate change deniers a sort of General Goldman Sachs composite.
Four more officials charged with causing Flint water crisis
At least 13 former and current state and local officials face criminal charges for their participation in the Flint water crisis.