Indicted Rep. Chris Collins just dropped out of his reelection bid. But Trump is just as fundamentally corrupt.
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We Have Met the Climate Enemy, and He Is Us
It’s about time we grapple with the ultimate inconvenient truth.
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Limbaugh’s 30 Years of Lies and Fear
The damage Limbaugh inflicted upon our country during the 1990s and 2000s will take decades to be repaired, if ever.
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The Carbon Tax as Publicity Stunt
The Republican Party is fully and unapologetically committed to the defense of coal, oil and natural gas at all costs.
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Anthony Kennedy’s Betrayal of the Planet
History will show that when our climate needed a champion, Kennedy largely failed to answer the call.
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The Unsinkable Scott Pruitt?
The right doesn’t care how many people will be harmed by Pruitt’s actions as EPA Administrator.
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We’ll Never Know How Many Will Suffer Thanks to Scott Pruitt–And Those Who Continue to Support Him
Five years ago today–and damn, does that seem like a lifetime ago–New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait declared that President Obama wasn’t getting enough credit from climate activists for his leadership on reducing emissions. Back then, Chait observed: The assumption that Obama’s climate-change record is essentially one of failure is mainly an artifact of environmentalists’ […]
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And the Newest Member of Trump’s Fan Club Is…
So there was Kellyanne Conway making a fool of herself as usual on CNN this morning, smearing James Comey and feigning outrage when Dana Bash brought up the fact that Conway’s husband, attorney George Conway, doesn’t seem to like Trump all that much. Most rational-thinking Americans regard Conway as a joke. What about those who […]
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Strange Brew: The Right’s Pathetic Denial of Racism
Perhaps the most morbidly funny media story of the year is the spectacle of conservative crackpots falling all over themselves to attack the efforts by Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to address implicit bias, after the horrifying incident in Philadelphia where a Starbucks employee decided that calling the cops on Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, two […]
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Channeling Rage: Trump and Fox News
Here we stand Remote control buttons In our sweaty little hands As one man We’re lining up and waiting For someone’s command… TV rules– Pretty soon you won’t be able To turn it off at all! All you fools Then it will turn you off— Your back’s against the wall! —“T.V. Age,” Joe Jackson, 1982 […]
