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Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 11:24pm
Adam Johnson
President Donald Trump’s disastrous withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Change Accord understandably has the media in a frenzy. “Unconscionable and fatuous,” proclaimed The Economist (6/1/17). Trump “shamefully abandons the fight against humanity’s greatest threat,” wrote Bloomberg News (6/1/17).
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 11:18pm
Les Leopold
As Trump stumbles, and maybe crumbles, progressives are confronting a painful truth: Trump is a reflection of a much bigger problem ― the rise of runaway inequality and the failure of the liberal establishment to address it.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 10:54pm
Heide Castañeda, Jessica Mulligan, Mark Schuller
Wendy and Rich, a white working-class couple from Crystal River, Florida, signed up for Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”) coverage last year primarily because they wanted to avoid paying the penalty. “We weren’t against it,” Wendy recalls. “We just thought we were healthy.”
Circumstances changed.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 5:59am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The Trump administration is moving to keep the lengthy Senate report on the CIA's torture and detention program forever from the public eye, the New York Times first reported Friday.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 5:46am
Indigenous Environment Network
Yesterday, June 1st, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the parent company of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) announced that DAPL is officially fully operational.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 5:40am
New documents from the New York State Attorney General show that while now Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was CEO of ExxonMobil, the company actively misled shareholders about climate risk and deleted “untold numbers” of documents related to climate change, including many of Tillerson’s own personal emails he sent under his “Wayne Tracker” alias.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 5:29am
The Trump administration is having at least two federal agencies give their copies of the Senate’s CIA torture report back to the Senate, according to a report by The New York Times.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 4:51am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tried on Friday to defend President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement by selectively quoting from "the environmental left," which at times criticized the deal for not going far enough.
Mentioning both the Sierra Club and noted former NASA climate scientist James Hansen by name, Pruitt falsely claimed that they opposed the deal "largely because it didn't hold nations like China and India accountable."
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 4:12am
Maura Cowley
Donald Trump made a historic mistake by announcing he will be withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. This unprecedented move is catapulting the U.S. into last place -- we’re now one of only three countries in the entire world who aren’t a part of the Agreement. In case you were wondering, that’s yuge, and in the worst way possible.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 4:09am
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
As the president continues to go to bat for his Muslim ban, the Trump administration has put in place a new questionnaire for visa applicants, which critics say will enable discriminatory profiling and chill free speech.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 3:46am
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 3:39am
UN News Centre
With about 70,000 cholera cases reported with nearly 600 fatalities in Yemen, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today warned that an already dire situation for children is turning into a disaster.
"Cholera doesn't need a permit to cross a checkpoint or a border, nor does it differentiate between areas of political control," said UNICEF Regional Director, Geert Cappelaere, following his visit to the war-torn country.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 3:37am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
ExxonMobil is being accused of using "sham" accounting to "mislead" investors about the likely financial risks posed by climate change, which New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said was evidence of potentially "wide-ranging fraud" executed under the direction of former CEO and current U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 3:15am
Jon Queally, staff writer
'California Senators have sent an unmistakable message today to every Californian and people across the nation.'
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 2:52am
Jake Johnson, staff writer
Given Prince's past connections to Trump, his recommendations could have some measure of influence
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 1:36am
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
The overwhelming global response to President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement was essentially, "Go jump in a lake"—or as one Germany tabloid succinctly phrased it in a widely circulated headline:
Very much enjoying the German press at the moment. "Earth to Trump..." pic.twitter.com/sPqkUPYVlw
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 1:16am
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 1:04am
With a critical vote from the California State Senate today, the universal healthcare train is moving forward in California.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 12:54am
Mark Hertsgaard
President Donald Trump confirmed his status as climate denier in chief today, guaranteeing his place in history as an enemy of both science and humanity. Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Accord on climate change will not stop the rest of the world from continuing to advance toward a clean-energy future. Solar, wind, batteries, and other technologies are growing tremendously fast, rewarding investors and employing far more people than the heat-trapping fuels of the past.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 12:38am
David Roberts
Yesterday, President Donald Trump gave a speech announcing that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
Saturday, 3 June 2017 - 12:30am
Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Withdrawing from the UN Paris Climate Accord is one of more than a hundred electoral campaign promises that Donald Trump made. By delivering on that promise, the US now joined Nicaragua and Syria, the only countries that did not sign the agreement. Nicaragua did not sign due to indifference or denialism of climate change, it’s reason was the contrary. Nicaragua’s decision was based on its view that it is not enough to address the climate crisis. Syria is in the middle of civil war and under US and European sanctions.