The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is under assault for the sake of only a few months’ worth of oil.
Ryan Zinke
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Jeff Sessions Deserves to Be Humiliated
What did I tell you back down the line? I’ll scratch your back, you can scratch mine… Steely Dan, “Gaucho,” 1980 You have to admit: it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, and it feels good to see him get screwed. Jeff Sessions probably looks in the mirror now and finds himself restraining the urge […]
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Trump Has Not Yet Begun to Lose
With Trump, there will be so much losing, you’ll get sick of the losing.
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What if Senators Murkowski and Collins Defected?
Could Trump’s threats lose the GOP their Senate majority?
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Is Bernie Sanders Done For?
Even if you think the world of the man, you have to admit he seems to have the anti-Midas touch these days. First, there was his own campaign. Galvanizing to progressive activists and young voters. Inspiring to millions. Passionate, driven, wildly successful in terms of fundraising. Still couldn’t seal the deal in the Democratic primary. […]
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The Main Event: Ossoff vs. Handel Has the Importance of a Presidential Election
It would have been a key race even if Rob Quist had defeated Greg Gianforte in Montana last week. Now, it’s a crucial one. The June 20 special election to determine the next representative from Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District is, at this point, every bit as important in terms of its ramifications as the 2016 […]
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Dirty Deeds: The Trumpist Threat to Clean Air and Water
Presumably, Donald Trump didn’t bring the hack he hired to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, along with him to Saudi Arabia because the fossil-fuel fetishist wouldn’t want to leave that petrostate. The New York Times, presumably trying to reduce the public’s contempt towards its decision to hire climate-change denier Bret Stephens to foul […]
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Quist’s Quest: Can A Prairie Progressive Beat the Cult of Trumpism?
What will it mean if Rob Quist can’t seal the deal? The Democratic candidate in the May 25 special election to fill the at-large Congressional district vacated by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has been heralded as the sort of candidate that Democrats must turn to in order to regain lost ground. Quist certainly has impeccable […]
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Democratic Resolve in Georgia, Montana and Beyond
Ten years ago, then-Representative Martin Meehan (D-MA) resigned from the House to become chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Meehan’s Congressional seat had not been held by a non-Democrat since the early-1970s, and the prospects of the Republican Party capturing the seat in a special election seemed rather remote. However, Republicans did not shrug […]
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The Trump Administration’s Approach to Problem-Solving Will Fail
Their insistence on domination is already backfiring.
