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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) tweeted in response to the report that "the House Judiciary Committee should accept the Intelligence Committee report and immediately start drawing up articles of impeachment."
by Jake Johnson, staff writer "The program's become less progressive," said Jim Roosevelt, a former Social Security Administration official and grandson of FDR.
by Jessica Corbett, staff writer With only about two months left before Iowa's first-in-the-nation 2020 caucuses, the political arm of the state's largest grassroots progressive group endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on Monday.
by Julia Conley, staff writer As the decade comes to a close, the world's top climate scientists warned Tuesday that policymakers' continued failure to curb the warming of the planet could lead to a global temperature increase of 5° Celsius by the end of the century, putting the world "nowhere near on track" to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
by Jon Queally, staff writer "$22 billion could fund a lot of kids learning," said Albert Lee, a Democrat running for Congress in Oregon. "We need an education race; not a wasted arms race."
by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Critics of the Trump administration's immigration policies raised alarm Tuesday over a so-called "surge" of park rangers that the Interior Department is deploying to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border as House Democrats refuse to fund President Donald Trump's long-promised border wall.
by Julia Conley, staff writer With many of their former colleagues standing with them, four recently-fired Google employees on Tuesday announced they would file charges against the company with federal government's top labor agency, claiming Google illegally fired them from organizing their workplace.
by Jessica Corbett, staff writer After three weeks of sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Spain, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived Tuesday in neighboring Portugal, where she was welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.
by Erika González Whether it’s subsidies or the global response to this crisis, around the world, the influence of industries like the fossil fuel industry continues to hamper our policymaking to face the ecological and climate crisis.
by Danny Sjursen Collective delusion—reflected in the populist, rightward, authoritarian global political wave—might just spell the end of organized human life on this planet.