- Tuesday afternoon marked the beginning of the general floor debate for the ...
- Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headqu...
- Millions of Americans are deep in medical debt. Unfortunately, the Affordab...
- Immigrants don’t just pick our fruit, deliver our take-out food and desig...
- WASHINGTON -- Progressive Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on ...
- Activists held a series of demonstrations across the country today to call ...
- A renewed debate of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is lon...
- Two days after the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in...
- The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the...
- Next week, the U.S. House will take up the federal farm bill, which include...
- By a 305-121 margin, the House of Representatives voted to accelerate US tr...
- Washington, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the foll...
- ...
- WASHINGTON — Isolated human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ...
- Unreported in the mainstream press is the dramatic long-term hunger strike ...
- WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a slate of bills Wed...
- The spate of alarming incidents in recent months underscoring the depth of ...
- New York stood for equality by approving same-sex marriage two years ago. I...
- During the Bush II Era, excessive deficit spending was no big deal for Repu...
- Washington’s attack on the poor continues as the Senate votes for big cut...
- WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsui...
- In this new era of austerity, it was disappointing to learn that Congress i...
- One in three Americans are now poor, sapping our nation's social, economic,...
- The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's hi...
- When asked what the world needs, people tend to go all gushy and offer up s...
National News (1333)
G.O.P. Is Resisting Obama Pressure on Tax Increase
Written by Jonathan Weisman | The New York Times
WASHINGTON — House Republicans, shrugging off rising pressure from President Obama, are resolutely opposing new tax increases to head off $85 billion in across-the-board spending reductions, all but ensuring the cuts will go into force March 1 and probably remain in place for months, if not longer.
White House Tactic for C.I.A. Bid Holds Back Drone Memos
Written by Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti | The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The White House is refusing to share fully with Congress the legal opinions that justify targeted killings, while maneuvering to make sure its stance does not do anything to endanger the confirmation of John O. Brennan as C.I.A. director.
“Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul we ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.”
-Christopher Fry, A Sleep of Prisoners
"We Must Unleash Radical Thought": Harry Belafonte’s Stirring Speech Accepting NAACP Spingarn Medal
Written by Democracy Now
Along with his rise to worldwide stardom, the musician and actor Harry Belafonte has been deeply involved in social activism for decades. One of Dr. Martin Luther King’s closest confidants, Belafonte helped organize the March on Washington in 1963.
Scientists Detail Severe Future Impacts of Climate Change
Written by Tiffany Stecker and ClimateWire | Scientific American
At a U.S. Senate hearing, scientists warned that New Orleans, Florida and other places will be radically transformed if global warming is allowed to continue unabated
Desmond Tutu Blasts US Drones: American or Not, All Victims Are Human
Written by Lauren McCauley | Common Dreams
Tutu: 'Does the US really want to tell those of us in the rest of the world that our lives are not of the same value as yours?'
Could We Move Dianne Feinstein on CIA Oversight?
Written by Robert Naiman | Huffington Post
The Senate is going to be on "recess" this coming week. When they are on "recess," Members of Congress are supposed to hear from their constituents.
Guns, not the Klan, are the real threat
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson | Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago suffers unbearable levels of gun violence, yet the victims remain largely silent. They travel from funeral home to graveyard rather than march from church to gun shop.
Climate Rally In Washington Brought Out 40,000 People, Organizers Estimate
Written by Lucia Graves | Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Hoisting signs that read "Forward on Climate" and "No on Keystone XL," a massive group of protesters gathered on the National Mall Sunday to urge President Obama to take action on climate policy.
Sierra Medical Center RNs, El Paso Vote by 60 Percent to Join NNOC
Written by National Nurses United | Press Release
Texas RNs Unite with NNOC to Improve Quality of Care
Registered nurses at Sierra Medical Center in El Paso voted by 60 percent Tuesday night to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee-Texas, the Texas affiliate of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest organization of RNs.
PDA In Your State
