The president-elect is getting a reality check about the limitations of governing.
Rex Tillerson
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The Leaked Dossier Shows Just How Close Trump Is to Russia
It’s going to be a long four years.
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Mnuchin Needs to Explain the 19.5% Sale of Rosneft
The privatization of a Russian energy giant appears to violate U.S. sanctions against the country.
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You Know the Drill
What will he say during the deposition? “My bad”? For all my skepticism about the effort by young climate activists in Oregon to have the federal courts effectively shut down the fossil-fuel industry, I have to admit this is a clever idea: Lawyers for teenagers claiming the US government failed to protect the environment from […]
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A Re-Examination of What is Unprecedented
Dealing with Trump means preparing for the unprecedented.
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Thought Process
C’mon, John Kerry’s just doing his job. The outgoing Secretary of State knows that the man nominated to replace him, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, isn’t qualified to cut the White House lawn, much less represent the Trump administration internationally. As a longtime climate hawk, Kerry also knows about ExxonMobil’s decades of deception on climate change, […]
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Moving Backwards
Did anyone seriously think Donald Trump would change his mind on climate change? Apparently, former Vice President Al Gore’s highly publicized efforts to convince the Addams, er, Trump family to give efforts to reduce CO2 their due were for naught, as the apparent President-elect went ahead with plans to hand the Environmental Protection Agency and […]
