American businesses are losing hundreds of millions of dollars every day President Donald Trump’s partial government shutdown — now the longest on record — rages on. But few industry leaders say they are pressuring Republican members of Congress they bankrolled to end the shutdown — even though few have chosen to break ranks with the […]
News coming out of the Pentagon in recent days points to some kind of coming conflict with China, with the risks being increased by the loose cannon that is President Donald Trump’s Twitter presence. In a matter of days, the Pentagon issued a report saying that China might be prepared to militarily engage with the […]
Fox News, President Donald Trump’s favorite news network, is having a tough time framing new revelations that Trump reportedly asked former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about then-secret negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. On Thursday evening, BuzzFeed News published a bombshell report outlining the claim, stating that Cohen had told […]
President Donald Trump allegedly directed his personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about a real estate deal the president’s company pursued in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a report by Buzzfeed News. The allegation that the president compelled a subordinate to lie under oath to Congress are almost identical […]
The Trump administration wants to encourage states to conduct drug tests for people seeking unemployment insurance — a practice labor and drug policy experts largely agree is costly for states, shames people who need financial assistance, and does nothing to actually help people with substance use disorders. The Labor Department finished seeking public comments this […]
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is losing $400,000 in fares and parking revenue for every weekday that the shutdown drags on, according to a letter Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) shared on Twitter Thursday night. In addition to the revenue losses, the government shutdown has left WMATA with $33 million in unreimbursed expenses. The […]
Governors across the nation are making it clear that 2019 will be the year they will fight harder against climate change by advocating for bolder policies that will boost renewable energy resources and cut greenhouse gas emissions in their states. The governors — both newly elected and reelected — can clearly see that the federal […]
As is typical for a functioning, healthy democracy where everything is in working order, the United States government has been shut down for a record 28 days. The consequences of this range from the merely irritating and eye-roll-inducing — e.g. naming our most recent winter storm “Snurlough” — to the devastating and unconscionable: domestic violence […]
In what was likely an attempt to distract from Thursday night’s bombshell report from Buzzfeed News that revealed President Trump directed his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, Trump tweeted out a quote from a days-old article in the conservative Washington Examiner that continues to fear monger about the immigrants who cross the […]
President Donald Trump directed his former fixer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about a real estate deal that the president’s company was pursuing in Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a bombshell report published late Thursday by BuzzFeed News. The revelation comes two days after William Barr, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, […]
Two years in, the presidency of Donald Trump has been a possibly fatal disaster for our livable climate, a number of climate and clean energy experts told ThinkProgress. During the 2016 presidential campaign, countless climate experts voiced their concern about Trump, who had infamously called climate change a “hoax” and said it was “created by […]
Over the past week, congressional Republicans have been scrambling to distance themselves from their white nationalist colleague, Rep. Steve King (R-IA). After King asked the New York Times in a recent interview why terms like “white supremacy,” “white nationalism,” and “Western civilization” should be considered offensive, prompting sustained outrage, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) […]
Two minor earthquakes hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday, measuring 3.4 and 3.5 on the Richter scale respectively. While neither caused much damage, it prompts the larger question: What happens if a really big one hits while the government is shut down? According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shutdown contingency […]
One month ago, Tumblr made the wildly unpopular decision to ban pornography and adult content from its website. The move was greeted with outrage, particularly from those who had used the site as a way to discover their own gender identity and sexuality and connect with users from similarly marginalized groups. Critics accused the site […]
President Donald Trump retaliated against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a public letter Thursday, postponing a previously secret trip the speaker was set to take to Afghanistan, in response to her decision to cancel the State of the Union on January 29. Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) knew that withdrawing an invitation to address the nation from Capitol Hill would crawl under President Donald Trump’s skin and irritate him in ways that nothing else might. So she did it. Earlier this week, citing security concerns raised by the ongoing shutdown of the federal government, Pelosi sent a letter […]
Virtually every coal power plant in Texas is leaking pollution into nearby groundwater, imperiling the environment and the health of neighboring communities, according to new data analysis released this week. According to a new report published Thursday by the non-profit, non-partisan Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), toxic coal ash pollutants from coal-fired power plants in Texas […]