No one deserved it more. This Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their trailblazing work in attempting to prevent the planet from being set ablaze due to carbon pollution. The Gore/IPCC win drove climate deniers nuts–a very […]
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The Press Won’t Report It, But We Know It’s True: If You Voted for Trump, You Hate the Dreamers Too
Remember the Felipe Garza-Donna Ashlock story from about 30 years ago? It was a heartwarming, and heartbreaking, tale: a Latino teenager in Patterson, California fell for a white classmate who happened to have a heart condition. In January 1986, Garza died suddenly after a blood vessel burst in his brain–and his heart was transplanted into […]
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How Mainstream Media Allows Lies to Flourish as Opinions
Journalism has to sort out the difference between opinions and facts.
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Of Course Trump Will Suppress New Report on US Climate Impacts
Has he called it “fake news” on Twitter yet? There isn’t a chance in hell that the Trump administration will ever officially release the latest National Climate Assessment Report showing the severe risk carbon pollution poses to the United States. Trump will surely take a page from George W. Bush, who taught Trump all that […]
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How the Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine Gave Us Donald Trump
The decision by the Reagan administration has given us three decades of broadcast news that recklessly reaffirms prejudices.
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Ross Douthat Wants the 25th Amendment Invoked and Trump Removed
Ross Douthat thinks the president is mentally incapacitated and should be removed.
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Trump’s Incoherence On Full Display in New York Times Interview
This man is not well.
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Operation Bury Bernie: The Political Motive of the Jane Sanders Investigation
Imagine a sports team celebrating a championship victory even before the playoffs have started, and you have a good idea of what the mood must have been like among Donald Trump’s top political advisors after the New York Times ran this story: A federal investigation into a long-ago land deal by Senator Bernie Sanders’s wife […]
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“The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them”
About thirty years ago, the Long Island Regional Poison Control Center ran a semi-famous ad campaign encouraging children not to treat prescription medicine as candy. The spot featured blue pills singing the following: This is serious! We could make you delirious! You should have a healthy fear of us– Too much of us is dangerous! […]
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Trump’s Voters Are Responsible for Killing the Paris Climate Agreement
Forty years ago today, in an article Donald Trump and his supporters apparently never bothered to read, the New York Times reported: To avoid accumulation in the air of sufficient carbon dioxide to cause major climate changes, it may ultimately be necessary to restrict the burning of coal and other fossil fuels, according to Dr. […]
