Wednesday, May 8, 2024

■ Today's Top News 


Biden 'Moving the Goal Post' With Threat to Withhold Bombs From Israel

"Now Israel has a green light to destroy Rafah in slow motion," said one critic.

By Brett Wilkins



House Dems Save 'MAGA Mike' Johnson From Marjorie Taylor Greene Ouster

"The GOP chaos caucus continues to do nothing for the American people and instead waste time infighting," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who did not support saving the far-right leader.

By Jessica Corbett



Extending Trump Tax Cuts Would Add $4.6 Trillion to Deficit: CBO

"We can't afford 10 more years of giveaways to the wealthy and corporations and fail to invest in the people who drive our economy," said the head of Groundwork Collaborative. "This tax law should expire."

By Jessica Corbett



Study Links Abortion Restrictions and Intimate Partner Homicide

"In thinking about pregnancy itself as a risk factor for homicide, it follows that the ability to prevent or end a pregnancy" could have "immediate implications" for the safety of pregnant people, said one researcher.

By Julia Conley



77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified

"I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South," one expert said.

By Olivia Rosane



Extreme Flooding Creates Nearly Quarter-Million New East African Climate Refugees

"The ongoing floods in East Africa are the present and future if we don't accelerate the energy transition to renewables," said one African climate campaigner.

By Brett Wilkins


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■ Opinion


Tom Cotton: The Nation's Very Worst Veteran

At a time when the United States needs to be careful and clear-headed about how it responds to the Middle East crisis, Cotton’s cheerleading for devastating military action against Iran is deeply unhelpful.

By Bob Keeler


The Price We Pay for Bezos and Gates? Less Moral Societies

The longer we let inequality define our contemporary daily lives, new research helps us understand, the more the unethical behavior all around us will seem to reflect just the way our world naturally works.

By Sam Pizzigati


Big Oil Should Pay for the US to Reach Net Zero

The cost of climate action must shift from taxpayers to fossil fuel producers, in other words, to those who profit from the products that pollute the air.

By Hugh Helferty,Jessica Nacheman


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