This is a heat wave, at least in the long term
Unfortunately, the Republican Party, especially its Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin / tea party section, either doesn't believe or refuses to believe the truth about climate change.
Unions mount a big push against the Senate filibuster
Labor and progressive organizations say it is essential to end procedures that have allowed a Republican minority in that body to stall or kill a wide array of progressive legislation.
California governor: budget “will take sacrifice”
Brown told a Capitol says his budget "will take sacrifice from every sector of California."
Battle looms on immigration and citizenship
The Republican ultra right is launching a multi-pronged attack on immigrants and their families.
“Show-Me Solutions” are no solution, Missouri lawmaker says
Missouri's new Republican House leader declared a Republican mandate for a "change in the culture of how we operate," but a freshman lawmaker thinks otherwise.
Banning ethnic studies in Arizona is wrong!
A new draconian law in Arizona went into effect banning classes statewide, k-12, that promote the teachings of civil rights leaders such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez.
Job creation nowhere on GOP agenda
On a different planet, perhaps, an incoming Congress would now be plowing its way through the pages of jobs plans - but not this one.
New START ratified, 71-26
The 71-26 vote marked a significant foreign policy achievement for the Obama administration during the lame-duck Congressional session.
Kasich declares war on workers
Ohio's Republican Governor-elect John Kasich declared war on all public employees and workers employed under state contracts - a full month before taking office.
Scientists: society needs power and corruption
Scientific fact is objective, but sometimes it's easy to see whose side certain scientists are working on.
