Government

DACA protest

Don’t Be Confused: Donald Trump Just Ended DACA Don’t Be Confused: Donald Trump Just Ended DACA

This was not merely a delay, it was not a compromise, and it is not compassionate.

Sep 5, 2017 / Julianne Hing

Sessions arrives at the news conference

Jeff Sessions Will Say Anything To Play Trump’s Stooge Jeff Sessions Will Say Anything To Play Trump’s Stooge

Announcing the end of DACA, the attorney general was serially dishonest.

Sep 5, 2017 / Joan Walsh

Tom Tomorrow Cartoon

Hulk-in-Chief Hulk-in-Chief

You won’t like him when he’s angry...

Sep 5, 2017 / Tom Tomorrow

We Need Everyone to Act Now to Fight for DACA

We Need Everyone to Act Now to Fight for DACA We Need Everyone to Act Now to Fight for DACA

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this morning that President Trump is planning to end the program with a delay of six months.

Sep 5, 2017 / NationAction

John Kelly and Donald Trump

The Last Men Standing in Trump’s White House The Last Men Standing in Trump’s White House

They might be losing every American war, but they’re winners with Donald.

Sep 5, 2017 / Tom Engelhardt

Minimum wage protest

The Rollback of Pro-Worker Policies Since Trump Took Office Is Staggering The Rollback of Pro-Worker Policies Since Trump Took Office Is Staggering

This Labor Day, don’t listen to his empty promises to protect working people.

Sep 1, 2017 / Helaine Olen

Houston Chemical Plant Explosion

Trump Budget Cuts Could Halt the Investigation Into the Texas Chemical Plant Explosion Trump Budget Cuts Could Halt the Investigation Into the Texas Chemical Plant Explosion

Trump wants to eliminate the US Chemical Safety Board, which is looking into the Arkema explosion. 

Sep 1, 2017 / George Zornick

Anti-SB 4 Protests in Texas

Texas’s Virulently Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Was Just Blocked by a Federal Judge Texas’s Virulently Anti-Immigrant SB 4 Was Just Blocked by a Federal Judge

The nation’s harshest law targeting sanctuary cities won’t go into effect—for now.

Aug 31, 2017 / Julianne Hing

Brittany Ferrell

‘Whose Streets?’ Captures the Fury and Hope of the Post-Ferguson Moment ‘Whose Streets?’ Captures the Fury and Hope of the Post-Ferguson Moment

Watching this film months after the footage was collected, with Trump in the White House, can leave you feeling sick.

Aug 30, 2017 / Collier Meyerson

Houston Flood

Houston’s Human Catastrophe Started Long Before the Storm Houston’s Human Catastrophe Started Long Before the Storm

Decades of neglect, inequality, and disenfranchisement mean that all Houstonians, but especially the poorest and most vulnerable, have been left utterly undefended.

Aug 29, 2017 / Wen Stephenson

x