Noam Chomsky

• Trump is flexing his executive power to brazenly disobey the law — and it looks like he’s getting away with it
  What can’t executive power do? If you ask the Trump administration, the answer seems to be almost nothing. Consider just the news Monday night. We know that the acting Director…
  Cody Fenwick
• Fears of ‘collateral damage to democracy’ swell as Trump weighs withdrawing from global postal pact
  Thousands of absentee ballots could be uncounted in upcoming elections thanks to President Donald Trump’s objection to a treaty which governs the international mail exchange for nearly 200 countries. Citing…
  Julia Conley
• ‘They threaten Mike every week’: Report says Trump is frustrated with Pence and his team wants to kick him off the 2020 ticket
  Vanity Fair reporter Gabriel Sherman published a story Monday claiming that President Donald Trump’s team is considering replacing Mike Pence as vice president on the 2020 ticket. Previous reports have…
  Cody Fenwick
• How a cruel deception about the nature of science conceals the central importance of imagination
  by Tom McLeish My latest book, The Poetry and Music of Science (2019), starts with my experiences of visiting schools and working with sixth-form pupils in general-studies classes. These students,…
  Aeon
• America’s biggest bribery scandal: How our terrible public policy is bought and paid for
  The American media world—both social media and “news” media—is afire with the news that actor Felicity Huffman is going to jail for spending $15,000 to bribe her daughter’s way into…
  Thom Hartmann
• New report details 10 ‘critical transitions’ to tackle the climate crisis and feed the world
  The ways humanity produces and consumes food cause up to 30 percent of planet-warming emissions, generate widespread malnutrition, and perpetuate poverty and inequality—but a new report released Monday claims that…
  Jessica Corbett
• Russian spies cracked FBI code in ‘stunning’ and ‘incredible’ breach of U.S. intelligence: report
  “Make no mistake,” one former U.S. intelligence officer told Yahoo News, “we’re in an intelligence war with the Russians every bit as dangerous as the Cold War.” That is certainly…
  Kerry Eleveld
• Why Elizabeth Warren’s background shows she knows how to govern as president
  Polls continue to show that Joe Biden is the front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. But the betting market has a different favorite. Predictit shows Elizabeth Warren leading Biden by double digits, as does the…
  Nancy LeTourneau
• NYT reporter explains how a Trump war with Iran could spiral out of control: ‘Playing with fire’
  As President Donald Trump pugnaciously warned on Twitter this weekend that the United States is “locked and loaded” to go after Iran following a recent attack on oil infrastructure in…
  Cody Fenwick
• ‘Saudi Arabia first’: Trump accused of letting Saudis dictate US foreign policy after oil facility attack
  Donald Trump is taking marching orders from Saudi Arabia, said progressive members of Congress and foreign policy analysts, after the president tweeted Sunday that the U.S. military is prepared and…
  Jake Johnson