Newly obtained emails add to revelations of how the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), works to benefit agrochemical companies while shrugging off evidence from foreign governments of risks to the safety of their environment and their citizens.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Tiktok's statements about how it intends its Stitch, Green Screen and Duet features to be used and how people actually use them can be quite different.
FGA, a Florida-based think tank has become a major player in attacking the freedom to vote, access to healthcare and workers’ rights, and is increasingly driving the backlash to environmental and social governance investing.
It’s time for “truth in labeling” laws like the processed food industry complies with to apply to social media. The life—and democracy—that gets saved could be your own.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet and supporter of Benito Mussolini, argued that war and fascism were the only cure for the world. And that fascism, then and now, worked to ensure white dominance.
The death of longtime Putin critic Alexei Navalny in February 2024 was a huge blow to the opposition but is representative of the state of political repression in Russia.
Bill Barr's time as Trump's Attorney General was not the first time he covered-up for a Republican president who’d committed crimes that could rise to the level of treason against America.
The Michigan chapter of Cleta Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network is going door-to-door and flooding election offices with voter challenges.
"When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American." Dorothy Thompson, 1937
Just in case you forgot: No Labels is not what they say they are. They’re a political party masquerading as a non-profit to promote the interests of their wealthy donors.
The real power of authoritarian populists like Trump and Orban lies not in the institutions they hijack but in the novel electoral support coalition they create.
Sinema was an obstacle to achieving progressive policy goals in Congress, blocking many key priorities, including eliminating the legislative filibuster, along with Sen. Joe Manchin.
Florida will continue to spend an ever-increasing amount of taxpayer money on pipes and pumps and seawalls, but considers anything that might deal with the causes of climate change to be “an obsolete program or whatnot.”
Many of the same fossil fuel companies that knew and lied for decades about how their products cause climate change have also known and lied to the public about plastic recycling.
Elections officials said they had a multitude of problems with the proposal which comes from one of the most strident election deniers.
Navalny highlighted the very real opposition to Putin and authoritarian rule that exists in Russia despite attempts to hide it from the world.