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Robert Parry Why Hillary Clinton Really Lost An early insider account of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, entitled Shattered , reveals a paranoid presidential candidate who couldn’t articulate why she wanted to be President and who... Read more |
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Ruchi Shroff The Monsanto Tribunal’s Legal Opinion Reinforces Movements’ Struggle for Basic Human Rights On Tuesday, the Monsanto Tribunal of international judges presented in The Hague their legal opinion after 6 months of analysing the testimonies of more than 30 witnesses, lawyers and experts. Their... Read more |
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Beverly Bell Sowing the Seeds of Berta Cáceres Two Honduran cultural workers, feminists, and close friends of Berta Cáceres will tour 20 US cities between April 20 and May 23, 2017 to “sow the seeds of Berta.” Singer-songwriter Karla Lara and... Read more |
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Meleah Geertsma East Chicago Needs More than "Basics" from Scott Pruitt's EPA With his upcoming visit to East Chicago , Indiana, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has a critical opportunity to make good on his confirmation statement —that EPA should have “acted faster” in Flint—... Read more |
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Liz Hayes There’s No Reason For The Supreme Court To Hear Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer Americans United on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer – a church-state separation case scheduled to be heard by the high court today. AU and... Read more |
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Jay Bookman An Ossoff ‘Victory for the Ages’? No, Not Quite. Not Yet. “A victory for the ages,” Democrat Jon Ossoff called it last night. But it wasn’t. Not quite and not yet. You could call his showing a surprise, a success, an achievement, a signal of deep public... Read more |
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Jim Hightower To Have A People's Government, We The People Must Build It In high school, I had a girlfriend who was involved in student government and all sorts of good works. While she paid attention to all that was happening in those years of the early '60s, she... Read more |
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John Nichols Trump to Erdogan: Congrats On Your Dictatorship! O ne of the greatest responsibilities of an American president is to encourage the development of democracy and the protection of basic liberties in countries with which the United States is allied... Read more |
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Danny Sjursen How to Lose the Next War in the Middle East (Short Answer: Fight it!) Make no mistake: after 15 years of losing wars, spreading terror movements, and multiplying failed states across the Greater Middle East, America will fight the next versions of our ongoing wars. Not... Read more |
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Jeffrey D. Sachs Our Misguided 'Wars of Choice' There is one foreign policy goal that matters above all the others, and that is to keep the United States out of a new war, whether in Syria, North Korea, or elsewhere. In recent days, President... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Why Slashing the NIH Budget Is Indefensible In January 1970, the organizers of the first Earth Day published a full-page ad in the New York Times. A few months ahead of thousands of demonstrations and teach-ins across the United States, they... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Only Real "Centrist" Agenda ... Is a Bold, Progressive Agenda With Steve Bannon on way out, official Washington is jumping for joy that Gary Cohn—the former president of Goldman Sachs who’s now running Trump’s National Economic Council, along with Dina Powell,... Read more |
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Hunter Blair Likeliest Outcome of Tax Reform is a Deficit-Financed Tax Cut for the Rich That Will Expire in a Decade Undeterred by their failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Republicans look set to move on to the next item in Paul Ryan’s “Better Way” agenda— tax reform . This post helps set the stage... Read more |
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Dave Johnson Real Solutions For Tax Day, Not Bogus Tax Reforms We are in a time of fantasy proposals from our country’s “leaders.” What We the People need is real policy proposals to address our real problems. “Tax Reform” Next up on the Trump/billionaire/... Read more |
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Martin Winiecki War and Peace and War BOGOTA, Colombia – At the end of last year, the world celebrated what seemed to be the end one of history's longest standing internal wars. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who had brokered a... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Price of Resistance This is a talk that Chris Hedges gave Monday, April 17, 2017 at Princeton University in New Jersey. In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans... Read more |
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Kathleen Rogers Earth Day, The Climate Agreement and March for Science It’s no coincidence that Earth Day, the first anniversary of the signing of the climate agreement and the March for Science are all taking place on the same day, April 22 . It is the people’s day. It... Read more |
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John Nichols The Democratic Party Must Finally Abandon Centrism I t is easy to dismiss the “Come Together and Fight Back” Tour that this week will take Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez to eight cities in eight... Read more |
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Michael Winship The Waters of Trump’s Washington Are Dark and Deep Years ago, I worked for a wealthy television executive in Washington, DC, who had a posh Georgetown townhouse with a courtyard. In the center of his courtyard was a small fountain, and he became... Read more |
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Michael Schwalbe Nothing Beats Science for Explaining How the World Works Scientific literacy is usually measured through surveys that ask questions about basic scientific facts, such as, “Do the continents move? Does water boil at lower temperatures at higher altitudes?... Read more |
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Masha Gessen The Real Madman “Putin is the real world version of the person Trump pretends to be on television,” historian Timothy Snyder wrote in this space during the presidential campaign. A year after Snyder made that... Read more |
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Stanka Becheva The Battle to Feed the World: David vs. Goliath The fight over who will control our food, countryside and natural resources is heating up. Today, April 17th, marks the International Day of Peasant Struggles . These ‘peasants’, or paysan in French... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Trump’s Five Worst Tax Secrets, Revealed Thousands of demonstrators marched on Saturday to demand that Donald Trump release his tax returns. But, barring an unexpected surprise – a W2 form issued by Vladimir Putin, or a 1099 from mafia boss... Read more |
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Ira Chernus Trump, A Symptom Of What? You could hear the deep sadness in the preacher’s voice as he named “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government." With those words, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit What Our Grandchildren Will Do When the Jobs Are Gone The jobs reports would have us believe our rebound from the recession is almost complete. The reality is very different, and The Economist has some fancy words for it: "Job polarisation," where... Read more |
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Hank Edson Reaching Impeachment Critical Mass 1. Regaining Our Common Sense Two things are inhibiting our exercise of common sense as a self-governed people: First, the cancer of our corporate media monopoly has ravaged the culture of the... Read more |
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Steven Singer Dept of Ed Hires Anti-Civil Rights Crusader to Protect Student's Nonexistent Civil Rights Candice Jackson is a victim of oppression. When she was attending Stanford University in the mid-1990s, a minority calculus tutoring group refused to help her because she was white. Sure she could... Read more |
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Jim Hightower Nuns Take On Wells Fargo In an insightful song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie wrote this verse: “As through this world I travel / I see lots of funny men / Some’ll rob you with a 6-gun / Some with a fountain pen.” The fountain... Read more |
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John Feffer Trump's New Foreign Policy Is the Worst of Both Worlds It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to discover that U.S. foreign policy is about as easy to turn around as a warship in dry dock. Despite any number of promises to shake things up — during the... Read more |
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Dave Zweifel Trump's Budget Paves a Road I Don't Want to Travel So is this how Donald Trump is going to make America great again? An America that claims it can't afford to subsidize Meals on Wheels programs for elderly folks who are homebound? An America that... Read more |
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Robert Dodge Tax Day—the Nuclear Option "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value," Former vice president Joe Biden quoting his father knew that a budget reflected the values and priorities of our... Read more |
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Norman Eisen, Richard Painter Trump's Taxes Must be Released Before Tax Reform Many of us will fork over up to a third of our income to pay federal taxes this year and as much as half of our income in federal, state and local taxes combined. We only ask a few things in return... Read more |
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Adam Johnson Thomas Friedman's Perverse Love Affair With ISIS For the second time in as many years, Thomas Friedman has explicitly advocated that the United States use the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as a proxy force against Syria, Russia, Iran... Read more |
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Dave Johnson Trump's Goldman Sachs Vampire Squid Presidency The things that come out of President Trump’s mouth seem to depend on who he talks to or what he sees on TV in the minutes immediately preceding his mouth motion. Based on his recent switchbacks,... Read more |
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Sue Sturgis The Energy Lobbyists Linked to Trump's Offshore Drilling Plans Last week U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced that President Trump plans to issue an executive order expanding offshore drilling in areas now off limits, including the Atlantic Ocean and... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Saturday's Celebration of Jackie Robinson Should Remind Us of the Importance of Political Protest This Saturday, April 15, while every Major League Baseball team will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s achievement of breaking baseball’s color line, many Americans will be... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Prison and Profits Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. — Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience It turns out that the immigration crackdown that DJT’s ICE... Read more |
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Lisa Gilbert We the People Do Care About Trump's Taxes Despite pledging he would release his taxes as soon as his " routine audit " was completed, right after his inauguration President Donald Trump flip flopped. When prodded, his counselor, Kellyanne... Read more |
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Juan Cole In Three Months, Trump has Charged into Four Mideast Wars, to No Avail In his less than three months in office, Donald Trump has escalated four wars, and all of his escalations have been failures. To be fair, Trump inherited all 4 wars from Barack Obama—Afghanistan,... Read more |
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Jameel Jaffer Censorship at the Border Threatens Free Speech Everywhere Defending one’s political and religious beliefs to government officials is an obligation we associate with life in authoritarian regimes, not open societies. It’s becoming common, though, for foreign... Read more |
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Robert Reich The World According to Trump The starkest difference between dictatorships and democracies is that democracies are ruled by laws, and dictatorships are ruled by dictators. The “rule of law,” as it’s often referred to, stands for... Read more |
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John LaForge Nuclear Power Bums, Bailouts, and Bankruptcy You have to hand it to the nuclear industry for socializing costs and privatizing profits. Last year, lobbyists for operators of dirty, deadbeat old reactors won massive public subsidies -- bailouts... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin The 'Mother of All Bombs' is Big, Deadly – and Won't Lead to Peace “I’m really very good at war. I love war, in a certain way,” bragged candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Iowa. This is the same Donald Trump who avoided the Vietnam draft by claiming a bone... Read more |
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Lois Marie Gibbs Tax Reform Should Begin With Making Polluters Pay As we begin our national conversation about tax reform, why don’t we start with low-hanging fruit – the things we can all agree are right? Why not reinstate the Superfund tax, which used to make... Read more |
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Bill Moyers Ask Yourself: Will Donald Trump EVER Become President? It’s been a week now since Donald Trump once again became our president. Here’s how it happened. After he unleashed missiles on a Syrian airfield, members of Washington’s national security... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Tax Day Marchers Want to Know: What Is Trump Hiding? This Saturday, Americans will be protesting in the streets of Washington, D.C. and more than 100 other cities as part of Tax Day. Demonstrators will be calling on President Donald Trump to release... Read more |
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Jesselyn Radack What Have We Done: Executive Power, Drones, and Trump? The news is rife with President Trump’s threatened and actual military misadventures: in Syria, Yemen, and North Korea. But these military actions take on a new gravity considering the vast and... Read more |
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Neal Gabler Why Trump Was Able to Sucker the World on Syria It is pretty amazing how quickly the media and suck-up politicians can transform a mendacious, hypocritical, amateurish, ignorant, incoherent, bigoted buffoon who is way, way out of his depth into a... Read more |
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Jeff Bryant During Resistance Recess, Join The Fight For Public Schools In this season of resistance, there’s no issue more imperative to your community than the fight for public education. While Congress is in recess, until April 23, you’ve got the opportunity – and a... Read more |
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Anusha Ravi, Eliza Schultz Mike Pence’s Policies Aren’t “Traditional.” They’re Dangerous. Last month, Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote on a measure that targets funding for Planned Parenthood clinics. His vote—which broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate—makes it legal for states... Read more |
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Miriam Berg 6 Ways the Trump Administration and Congress Have Threatened Women’s Health in Just a Few Months Look at how Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and anti-abortion politicians in Washington have systematically targeted women’s health since day one. It’s hard to keep up with the terrible policies coming out... Read more |
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Ann Reid, Glenn Branch Is No Place Safe? Climate Change Denialists Seek to Sway Science Teachers A few weeks ago, science teachers across the country began to find strange packets in their school mailboxes, containing a booklet entitled “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming” ( sic ), a... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson You Pay Your Fair Share. Shouldn’t Wall Street? Did you pay all of your taxes this April? Wall Street banks typically pay much less than the official 35 percent corporate tax rate. And yet after attacking Hillary Clinton for her ties to Wall... Read more |
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Peter Van Buren Flashback! Questions from the Last Time America was Supposed to "Take Out" Assad History is a funny thing, because we forget it so easily, and so quickly. That forgetting is usually based on the political needs of the moment, and politicians and the media count on us being that... Read more |
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William Astore What Does an "America-First" Foreign Policy Actually Mean? What does an “America-first” foreign policy look like under President Donald Trump? As a start, forget the ancient label of “isolationism.” With the end of Trump’s first 100 days approaching, it... Read more |
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Dan Kovalik 'The Resistance' That Doesn't Resist War Simultaneously with Trump’s Inauguration, the liberal “opposition” announced the beginning of “The Resistance” against Trump’s openly racist and xenophobic reign. Most notably, “The Resistance”... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Trump's Budget Director Declares War on the American People White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has issued a declaration of class war against the American people. His words may have sounded wonkish or technical, but underneath the coded language,... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler The Mental Limits of War A Morning Consult poll winks at me from my inbox: 57 percent of Americans support more airstrikes in Syria. My eyeballs roll. Hopelessness permeates me, especially because I’m hardly surprised, but... Read more |
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Zenobia Jeffries What Is It Like to Live Without Running Water? Detroit Families Know Each day, Catherine Caldwell hauls three gallons of bottled water to her bathroom and two to her kitchen. She and her family use the water for flushing the toilet, washing hands, and— after heating... Read more |
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Robert Reich Update for Trump Voters 1. He said he wouldn’t bomb Syria. You bought it. Then he bombed Syria. 2. He said he’d build a wall along the border with Mexico. You bought it. Now his secretary of homeland security says “It’s... Read more |
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Michael Winship Donald Trump’s ‘Measured Response’ Oh my, Chinese President Xi Jinping and that darned airstrike against Syria sure had all the members in a tizzy last week at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida pleasure dome. Palm Beach Daily News... Read more |
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Jill Richardson Trump’s Budget: Feeding One Kid, Starving the Family Imagine a parent who starves his children and fails to do any number of basic parental duties, but then buys one of his kids a healthy meal. Well, that’s good. Great, really. But it’s not enough. An... Read more |
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Mark Weisbrot Julian Assange is A Political Prisoner Who Has Exposed Government Crimes and Atrocities Julian Assange is a political prisoner. He has never been charged with a crime. Everyone who recognizes his name should know this, and if they don’t it is only because the largest media outlets have... Read more |
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Ben Lilliston When Climate Change Was Part of the Farm Bill Last month, Congress held initial hearings to inform the 2018 Farm Bill. Agriculture Committee members heard about the struggling farm economy, crop insurance and rural development. One issue that... Read more |
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Dave Johnson Deplaning of United Passenger Shows Why We Need Corporate Regulation In a democracy, We the People are in charge. We are the boss of the corporations. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work. Apparently, that isn’t so much the way it is anymore. The United States... Read more |
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Maya Berry The First Amendment Looks Especially Beautiful in Arabic In 2006, a human rights advocate, who is a friend, was prevented from boarding his flight from New York to California because of Arabic . Yes, Arabic. The language spoken by more than 400 million... Read more |
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Donna Smith Standing for Peace Puts a Target on Tulsi Our memories can be so fleeting—especially as the intense emotions and horror felt about seeing images from war-torn Syria drive blind acceptance of the most recent chemical attacks and subsequent U... Read more |
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Adam Johnson Out of 46 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Only One Opposed Of the top 100 US newspapers, 47 ran editorials on President Donald Trump’s Syria airstrikes last week: 39 in favor, seven ambiguous and only one opposed to the military attack. In other words, 83... Read more |
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Marjorie Cohn Trump’s Syria Attack Trampled Many Laws With 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each armed with over 1,000 pounds of explosives, Donald Trump went from scoundrel-in-chief to national hero, virtually overnight. The corporate media, the... Read more |
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Ralph Nader The Savings and Stability of Public Banking As a society obsessed by money, we pay a gigantic price for not educating high school and college students about money and banking. The ways of the giant global banks – both commercial and investment... Read more |
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Jesse Hagopian The Story Behind the Meme Mocking Pepsi’s Attempts to Brand Rebellion On April 5, I woke up to find out I was a meme gone viral . "Yo Kendall, im gonna need you to come through with a pepsi, these cops are wildin" pic.twitter.com/dOpKnTq8LU — Kim Jong Tun (@ignant_)... Read more |
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Hugh Handeyside 'Extreme Vetting' of Visitors Poses an Extreme Threat to Our Principles and Our Security We’ve heard a lot of rhetoric about “extreme vetting” of visitors to the United States since Donald Trump proposed it during the presidential campaign. While we still don't know precisely what the... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Syria Strike Follows Washington's Failed Foreign-Policy Playbook “There’s a playbook in Washington that presidents are supposed to follow,” then- President Obama said last year , defending his decision not to unilaterally strike Syria in 2013. “It’s a playbook... Read more |
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Will Bunch Cable TV President Launches Cable TV War—and the Reviews are Boffo! Sometimes in America, the rocket's red glare is all the proof through the night that you really need. The folks over at the Pentagon understand that well, which is why — even as the flames from 59... Read more |
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Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)* SUBJECT: Syria: Was It Really “A Chemical Weapons Attack”? 1 – We write to give you an unambiguous warning of... Read more |
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Alexis Bonogofsky Beyond Voting: Skills You Need to Get Sh*t Done in a Democracy A woman in the back of the room raised her hand. “I didn’t even know this was a thing,” she said. “What do you mean?” I asked. “Public hearings. I didn’t know they happened.” In my hometown of... Read more |
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Mike Garvey Reproductive Healthcare for Millions of Low-Income Women Is One Trump Signature Away From Being Threatened Just a week after the Republican Party’s Affordable Care Act repeal bill was dramatically pulled from the House floor, the Senate advanced legislation that will have serious consequences for the... Read more |
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Mattea Kramer Found in Cuba: The American Dream (and Nightmare) I’ll tell you up front that my personal vehicle has crowns of rust on the rear wheel wells and an interior that smells vaguely of dog puke. It’s a 2006 Mazda3 with 150,244 miles on it and it gets me... Read more |
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John Feffer What Does Kim Jong Un Want? Virtually every week, politicians and journalists and policy experts attempt the impossible: mind reading. Specifically, they want to know what’s going on inside one man’s mind. They want to know... Read more |
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Sarah Warner Our Fight for Health Care During Recess and Beyond It’s time to ramp up our resistance to the Trump-Ryan agenda on health care. We scored our biggest legislative victory so far on March 24, when Speaker Paul Ryan called off his bid to repeal the... Read more |
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Mark Schuller Undocumented Youth Seek Solidarity and Sanctuary “My anxiety level is rising, I’ve had difficulty sleeping. I’ve had difficulty talking with my siblings,” said Laura Vivaldo, senior political science major at Northern Illinois University. Like an... Read more |
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Diane Ravitch The Public Should Pay Only For Public Schools, Not Religious Schools Robert Natelson, a retired constitutional law professor who is allied with the ultra-conservative Heartland Institute, writes in The Hill that the Supreme Court may well strike down the state... Read more |
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James Zogby The Trump Divide Over the years, there have been many divides that have defined the American social, cultural, or political landscape. Some have been philosophical, regional, issue-based, racial, economic, gender or... Read more |
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James Trimarco What a Policy of Real Solidarity With the Syrian People Looks Like After the release of horrifying images of Syrian civilians killed by chemical attacks on Tuesday, there were predictable demands that the United States should “ take action ” against the regime of... Read more |
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Ben Leather US Congress Calls for Action on Honduras in Response to Murders of Land and Environmental Activists In two strongly worded letters to the new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, almost 80 United States legislators on Friday expressed their grave concern at the risks facing activists who defend their... Read more |
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Dahr Jamail War in the Gulf (No, Not That Gulf!) It’s war in the Gulf and the U.S. Navy is on hand to protect us. No, not that Gulf! I’m talking about the Gulf of Alaska and it’s actually mock war -- if, that is, you don’t happen to be a fin whale... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Russia-Baiting Pushed Trump to Attack Syria—and Increases the Risks of Nuclear Annihilation Vast efforts to portray Donald Trump as Vladimir Putin’s flunky have given Trump huge incentives to prove otherwise. Last Thursday, he began the process in a big way by ordering a missile attack on... Read more |
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Hina Shamsi U.S. Strikes in Syria Are an Illegal Response to Atrocity No one disputes that Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians is illegal, immoral, and unacceptable. But Assad’s illegality does not excuse illegality in response. In the face of... Read more |
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Sue Sturgis NC Lawmakers Want to Shield Factory Farms from Big Damage Payments to Victims Legislation moving through the North Carolina General Assembly would prevent people living near the state's numerous factory farms from recovering more than token damages in civil lawsuits where the... Read more |
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Rev. Billy Talen Manifesto for a Naïve Activism It is the darkest of times; it is the brightest of times. A mentally ill President slouches toward the nuclear suitcase to mistake a Twitter feed for the big one. But he can see in the windows of the... Read more |
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Trita Parsi Why Trump’s Syria Strike Will Not End Well U.S. President Donald Trump claims the objective of his cruise missile strike on Syria is to deter Syrian President Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons again. But six years into Syria’s brutal... Read more |
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Adam Johnson Five Top Papers Run 18 Opinion Pieces Praising Syria Strikes–Zero Are Critical Five major US newspapers—the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News —offered no opinion space to anyone opposed to Donald Trump’s Thursday night... Read more |
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Ira Chernus We Are Already At War With China I was in Waikiki, Hawaii, recently. But not for pleasure. I was there out of obligation, fulfilling my parental duty to visit my son and his husband, who live there. I’ll admit, though, that I was... Read more |
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Sarah Anderson Marching for Trump Tax Transparency Candidate Trump repeatedly promised to release his past tax returns, once they were no longer being audited. But those promises have failed to materialize, and Trump appears to have no plans to... Read more |
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Frida Berrigan Why Tax Resistance Under Trump Needs Its Antiwar Edge There have always been fights about taxes — stretching back to the crates of over-taxed tea tossed into the Boston Harbor and a thoughtful man’s night in jail for refusing to pay taxes in the slave-... Read more |
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Stephen Zunes Why These Missile Strikes Won’t Make Things Better for the Syrian People The U.S. bombing of Syria’s Al Shayrat air base has brought more death and destruction to that country and is unlikely to deter additional war crimes by the Syrian regime. It will not ease the... Read more |
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Timothy Karr Trump's FCC and FTC Chairs Rush in to Defend Big Telco's Assault on Internet Privacy It’s hard to defend legislation that undermines internet users’ essential privacy rights. But that hasn’t stopped the broadband industry and its many friends in Washington from trying. Even amid... Read more |
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Jim Naureckas The Essential Pundit Take: ‘Trump Became President’ by Bombing Syria “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States” last night, CNN host Fareed Zakaria said when asked about the significance of Trump’s airstrikes on Syria ( New Day , 4/7/17 ). “I think... Read more |
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Diane Randall Stop U.S. from Making Syria War Even Worse More bombs won't end the crisis in Syria. After more than six years of war, with millions displaced and a death toll of nearly half a million people, it's clear that there is no military solution to... Read more |
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Les Leopold How the Democrats Lost West Virginia and the Coal Miners To Trump “C’mon, fellas. You know what this is? You know what this says? You’re going back to work.” ― Donald Trump on signing an executive order to reverse the Obama Administration’s rules on coal, March 28... Read more |