Voters Want Presidential Action on Climate—With or Without Congressional Support
John Nowak, ZUMA Last month, in a joint interview with Mother Jones and The Weather Channel, Elizabeth Warren promised that if elected, she’d use the power of the president to address climate change. “I will use all the executive power tools available to me to fight back against the climate crisis,” she said. Listing a…
Trump Jr. Gets Booed Out of His Own Book Event as White Nationalists Eat Their Own
Evan Vucci/AP Donald Trump Jr. apparently failed to grasp the hypocrisy in refusing to answer questions for an event to promote his new book, Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, which is dedicated to mocking liberals and their so-called political correctness. But the president’s eldest son’s missteps were not lost…
Trump’s Draconian Border Lockdown Has a New Target
A Mexican woman and her children fled one of Mexico’s most dangerous states in search for asylum in the United States. They are now stuck living at the migrant encampment in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Fernanda Echavarri For the past year, the bridges that cross from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso have been surrounded by encampments…
A Note About Trump’s Tweets
I feel like I need to remind people of this periodically: Donald Trump’s tweets are not aimed at you and me, and analyzing them as if they were will lead you badly astray. They are aimed solely at his core supporters in the electorate and the media. In other words: don’t think of them as…
California’s Wildfire Policy Totally Backfired. Native Communities Know How to Fix It.
When it came time to set fire to the hillside, Kitty Lynch paused. A 70 year-old retired waitress, Lynch’s job during the controlled burn of a 2,200 acre ranch in Humboldt County, California this June was to keep the fire in check by tamping down small, errant flames with a tool called a McLeod. Lynch…
Appealing to Black Voters in South Carolina, Elizabeth Warren Fires Up White Liberals
Elizabeth Warren addresses a crowd at Clinton College, an HBCU in Rock Hill, S.C., on September 28, 2019.Meg Kinnard/AP Elizabeth Warren came to the South Carolina Lowcountry on Saturday and played all the standards. At a town hall in Goose Creek, about 20 miles north of Charleston, she talked about corporate greed and government decisions…