Al Gore: Migrant caravans are victims of global warming
Former Vice President Al Gore said the recent Central American migrant caravans seeking asylum in the U.S. were fleeing the ravages of global warming.
New Hampshire business climate ranked 34th best, but Sununu proposals aim to improve conditions
The numbers under Sununu’s guidance, while less than ideal, mark a reversal of the trend during the four years of former Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to review Census citizenship question case
“It is irrational that the census can ask a question on race, ethnicity, sex and everything else, but not citizenship,” says Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy.
Cuomo celebrates New Yorkers’ new ‘right’ to abort babies with World Trade Center lighting
The One World Trade Center, or Freedom Tower, glowed pink Tuesday night to celebrate New York’s passage of a bill expanding abortion access and codifying a woman’s right to abort under state law.
Without citing evidence, Bernie Sanders calls president of the United States ‘a racist’ on MLK Day
“Today, we talk about justice and today we talk about racism,” Sanders said. “I must tell you, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the United States who is a racist.”
President calls MAGA-hat Catholic teens ‘symbols of fake news’ after media narrative debunked
President Donald Trump stated Tuesday that the Covington Catholic High School boys who were portrayed as the villains in a now-debunked media narrative have become a symbol of fake news.
Alveda King on her uncle MLK’s forgotten legacy
“I believe that we have not given full credence to the spiritual aspect of the message of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which includes sanctity of life, procreative marriage, a man and a woman marrying with a commitment, if God wills, to birth and raise children in a healthy manner.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ was drafted in a single weekend by a bunch of millennial staffers, activists
Draft legislative text for “Green New Deal” legislation “was written over a single December weekend by the staff of the freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three like-minded progressive groups.”
Federal lawmakers are pushing a $15 minimum wage. Here are 3 disastrous consequences that would result.
Democratic lawmakers have long been in favor of a higher minimum wage, but few have gone so far as to call for doubling it. Until now.
I went to the Women’s March. Here are 6 things I saw.
The organization hosting the March has faced criticism due to its founders’ ties to Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam who led chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in Iran. The Democratic National Committee pulled its partnership from the Women’s March earlier this week.
Traditional use of the word ‘family’ triggered a meltdown among Google leaders, employees
“Using the word ‘family’ in this sense bothers me too,” wrote another employee, who felt excluded by the term because she was neither married nor a parent. “It smacks of the ‘family values’ agenda by the right wing, which is absolutely homophobic by its very definition.”
Opinion: Pelosi’s petulance is wearing thin
We expected all sorts of fits and furies when Democrats took control of the House, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unprecedented threat to disinvite President Donald Trump to the State of the Union sets the bar surprisingly low.