Wednesday, December 18, 2024

EPA’s historic ban on toxic chemicals: A win for health, or a temporary victory?

The EPA bans two carcinogenic chemicals after decades of advocacy, but political and industrial challenges loom.

Robber Barons on the march – what kind of backlash faces crisis-inducing, know-it-all oligarchs...

When did callous “austerity politics” suddenly make sense to the complaining impoverished?

Murdering eagles to save the climate?

The downside of Wyoming’s wind energy boom.

Students clash with UW Board of Regents over divestment and transparency amid police crackdown

Student activists demand divestment and transparency from the University of Wisconsin, facing police crackdowns and administrative pushback.

Trump’s tax plan: More wealth for the rich, less for working Americans, analysis finds

New report reveals the potential impacts of corporate tax cuts on income inequality, with wealthy Americans benefiting while the bottom half suffers.

Trump’s Project 2025 architect pick sparks fears for Social Security and Medicare cuts

President-elect Trump’s nomination of Russell Vought, a lead figure in Project 2025, signals the potential for deep cuts to critical safety net programs, despite campaign promises to protect them.

“Billionaires and big corporations sharpening their knives”: Progressive tax groups sound alarm over Trump’s...

With a Congress poised to push for sweeping tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, progressive organizations brace for a fierce battle to prevent policies that would deepen inequality and burden working Americans.

The worse the chaos that results, the sooner the eventual revulsion and turnaround

A too gullible population let itself be bamboozled.

It Takes a Movement

In short, “the real world we’re living in” right now won’t allow fundamental change of the sort we need. It takes a movement.

Israeli attacks intensify in Gaza as body bags run out and journalists are killed

Palestinian families and first responders face impossible conditions amid escalating strikes while evidence of alleged genocide emerges and Ireland confronts diplomatic fallout.