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Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 11:40pm
Multiple news outlets are reporting that according to senior White House officials the Trump Administration will announce today that it is exiting the Paris Climate Agreement, a decision that came after weeks of delays and stalling.
In response, 350.org Executive Director May Boeve issued the following statement:
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 11:35pm
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 11:08pm
Richard Eskow
There’s a sickness on the land. You know the facts: Millions of Americans lives in poverty. The number of Americans in the workforce remains low. Wages are stagnating and inequality is growing. “Deaths of despair” from alcoholism, opioid overdose, and suicide are on the rise.
But it’s not just the inequality, or the poverty, or the despair, that wounds us. It’s the fact that so many Republican leaders and voters find ways to justify living with these injustices, and are now making them worse.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 9:01am
TEF results are only two weeks away. The Russell Group's Sarah Stevens makes the case for careful communication of the outcomes, to ensure that applicants are not mislead by the results.
The post TEF results must be carefully communicated to improve students’ choices appeared first on Wonkhe.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 8:16am
Jon Queally, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered the commencement address at Brooklyn College on Tuesday and told graduating students that entering an "oligarchic" society, like one the United States is fast becoming, will demand vigilance and perseverance on their parts but that it was because of determined young people that he has "enormous confidence" in the country's ultimate future.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 7:10am
Greg Grandin
Manuel Noriega is dead at 83. He seems like a sad footnote to the last disastrous quarter century, but the December 1989 US invasion of Panama really was a permission slip for Washington—led by both Republicans and Democrats—to waste whatever potential benefits the end of the Cold War might have brought. Remember the “peace dividend”? The Berlin Wall had just fallen on November 9, and George H.W.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 6:55am
Rhea Suh
President Trump opened a new front in his assault on our environment and health last week, releasing detailed budget proposals that amount to a scorched-earth campaign—literally and figuratively.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 6:15am
J. Mario Molina
As I watch the debate unfold over repeal of the Affordable Care Act, I keep thinking about the Hans Christian Anderson story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In the story, the emperor's weavers convince him that they have made him clothes of special cloth, invisible to those too stupid to appreciate their beauty. The emperor parades through town stark naked, and his subjects are too afraid to state the obvious until one little boy blurts out that the emperor has no clothes. The emperor looks down and realizes the boy is right.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 5:31am
Common Dreams staff
Called "simply harassment" by opponent, new law would stipulate that physicians' disclosure be "on white paper, in a printed format, in black ink, and in 12-point Times New Roman font."
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 4:14am
Robert Kuttner
Something strange appears to be happening on the way to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s anticipated victory after her clever strategy of calling a snap election.
The ploy could backfire on her—just the way her predecessor, David Cameron, got caught when he thought he could shut up the ultra-nationalists by calling a referendum on British membership in the European Union. The result was Brexit, and Cameron’s own hasty exit.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 3:17am
Common Dreams staff
President Donald Trump indicated to Republicans on Tuesday that they should ignore widespread voter disapproval of his agenda as he urged them to once again jettison filibuster rules in the U.S. Senate in order to ram through a bill that would strip health coverage from an estimated 23 million people over the next decade and pass massive tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest individuals and corporations.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 1:41am
Leo Gerard
A few hundred billion cut here, a few hundred billion slashed there, and the Trump budget proposal adds up to real crushed opportunity.
The spending plan slices a pound of flesh from everyone, well, everyone who isn’t a millionaire or billionaire. For the rich, it promises massive tax breaks.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 1:33am
Danny Sjursen
“Everywhere you look, if there is trouble in the region,” Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters on a mid-April visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, “you find Iran.”
I must admit that when I stumbled across that quote it brought up uncomfortable personal memories.
Wednesday, 31 May 2017 - 1:21am
Victoria Cooper, David Whyte
As we move towards the general election, we are paralyzed by what is probably the biggest single issue affecting ordinary people in the country: austerity. We are unable to fully understand both the economic madness of austerity and the true scale of the human cost and death toll that ‘fiscal discipline’ has unleashed.