Policy

3 Ways to Restore Power to the People

3 Ways to Restore Power to the People

Things feel pretty weird right now to Americans. Since we celebrated the New Year, we have seen President Obama’s executive action with rudimentary gun control measures met with widespread backlash from the gun lobby and its political supporters, a state of emergency in California due to a methane leak and Virginia’s GOP launched a pledge that […]

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    10 Biggest Lies and Distortions From the GOP Debate

    10 Biggest Lies and Distortions From the GOP Debate

    Another GOP debate, another steaming pile of half-truths, lies and pseudo-facts. The Republican party seems to be almost entirely post-truth at this point and if you call them out, you’re the liberal media! It’s a brilliant racket and one that led us to the current state of affairs where facts aren’t just dispensable, but a political […]

    Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp: Help Us Stop the DARK Act

    Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp: Help Us Stop the DARK Act

    Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young are speaking out against the controversial Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (H.R. 1599), also known as the Deny Americans the Right to Know, or DARK Act. The legislation would require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the distribution and labeling of genetically modified […]

    11 Reasons Why ‘Everybody Hates Ted Cruz’

    11 Reasons Why ‘Everybody Hates Ted Cruz’

    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has been surging in the polls lately, leading more and more political strategists to predict  (R-FL) for the Republican nomination. He was tied for first place with Trump in a poll of Republicans in Iowa last week. Cruz—well known for his over-the-top rhetoric—has made some outrageous statements on climate change in recent months. […]

    Bernie Sanders: GOP Candidates Care More About Koch Money Than ‘Preserving the Planet for Our Children’

    Bernie Sanders: GOP Candidates Care More About Koch Money Than ‘Preserving the Planet for Our Children’

    Science-denying Republicans—intent on derailing local, national and global attempts to avert a looming climate crisis—have their priorities all wrong, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Tuesday. Republicans may not want to admit it, but when it comes to climate change, “the evidence is overwhelming,” Bernie Sanders declared on Tuesday. Photo credit: Erik J. Olson / […]

    Michael Mann: This GOP Presidential Candidate ‘Understands Less About Science Than the Average Kindergartner’

    Michael Mann: This GOP Presidential Candidate ‘Understands Less About Science Than the Average Kindergartner’

    The Associated Press (AP) asked eight climate and biological scientists to grade (on a 0-100 scale) the comments of top presidential candidates for their scientific accuracy. To eliminate bias, the names of the candidates were removed from their comments, so the scientists were scrutinizing them merely on scientific grounds. The three Democratic candidates scored highly: Hillary Clinton […]

    4 More Bizarre Ben Carson Stories Emerge

    4 More Bizarre Ben Carson Stories Emerge

    The past week has been a torrent of crazy Ben Carson stories. First he stabbed a child when he was young, and then he didn’t. He got a full scholarship to West Point but it turns out they don’t actually give those. It appears, at this point, basically nothing in his memoir is credible. Let […]

    Landmark Climate Bill Would End New Fossil Fuel Leases on Federal Lands

    Landmark Climate Bill Would End New Fossil Fuel Leases on Federal Lands

    Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced landmark climate legislation today to end new federal fossil fuel leasing on public lands and oceans, and cancel existing offshore federal oil and gas leases in the Arctic. To avoid a temperature increase of 5-10° in the next century 80% […]