A Top Financier of Trump and McConnell Is a Driving Force Behind Amazon Deforestation
Steve Schwarzman is the CEO of the Blackstone Group, which partially owns a Brazilian firm that is helping transform the Amazon from jungle to farmland.
Politics
Before Kamala Harris Soured on Bernie Sanders's Medicare for All Bill, She Grew Her Email List From It
Kamala Harris distanced herself from Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All bill at an event with large-dollar donors two weeks after her campaign ran those ads.
David Koch’s Most Significant Legacy Is the Election of Donald Trump
Efforts made by Koch, largely ignored by the mainstream press, primed key states to elect a GOP president. Trump was simply the beneficiary.
National Democrats Endorse John Hickenlooper, a Proponent of Fracking, in Competitive Colorado Primary
Andrew Romanoff, a leading candidate in the Senate race, called the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee's decision to intervene “a recipe for disaster.”
How Democrats Plan to Win Wisconsin in 2020
The efforts to retake Wisconsin, which Trump won by 23,000 votes, include new investments in field organizing and a targeted focus on communities of color.
Emails Show Monsanto Orchestrated GOP Effort to Intimidate Cancer Researchers
Documents suggest the firm has antagonized regulators and applied pressure to shape research of the world’s leading herbicide.
Bernie Sanders's Climate Plan Is More Radical Than His Opponents’ — And More Likely to Succeed
The $16.3 trillion plan would not only transition American society away from fossil fuels but renegotiate decades-old nostrums about the government’s role in the economy.
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Why the Democratic National Committee Must Change the Rules and Hold a Climate Debate
The climate emergency is not a “single issue” — it is the single precondition for every other issue’s existence.
Trump Accuses Most American Jews of "Disloyalty" to Israel, Deploying Anti-Semitic Trope
President Donald Trump revealed again on Tuesday that he subscribes to the anti-Semitic belief that American Jews harbor a secret dual loyalty to Israel.
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Mike Pompeo Has Extreme Views on Muslims — and Liberals Don’t Seem to Care
A lengthy profile in the New Yorker conspicuously neglected to mention the secretary of state’s ties to notorious Islamophobes.