NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks to Carnegie Mellon University researcher Dov Levin about his historical database that tracks U.S. involvement in meddling with foreign elections over the years. This is hardly the first … Continue reading Database Tracks History Of U.S. Meddling In Foreign Elections : NPR

House of Representatives Monday H.R. 382: 100 Years of Women in Congress Act Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade (F.A.C.T) Act of 1990 to designate Jeannette Ranking Women and Minorities in STEM Fields Program Grants the current research and extension grants to increase participation of women and minorities in the STEM field H.R. … Continue reading Congress Votes! – Week of 3/20/17

As clean energy and environmental protection look set to suffer under Trump’s budget cuts, at least the military will do its bit to reduce emissions. And they’re just doing it because it … Continue reading The Department of Defense Wants to Double Down on Renewables

Two tribes sought emergency order to stop oil flow while suit plays out but DC court ruling means controversial pipeline could start work Monday So much for the protests. Source: Dakota Access … Continue reading Dakota Access pipeline: appeals court refuses tribes’ request to stop oil flow

Forcing young, mostly healthy Americans off their parents’ coverage could help Republicans make good on their promise to salvage the health care system. The under 26 provision has contributed to one of … Continue reading How to fix Obamacare with this one weird trick

A new poll found he is the most popular politician in America. But instead of embracing his message, establishment Democrats continue to resist him The polls show him ahead of every other … Continue reading Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except, it seems, the Democratic party

Neoliberalism: defining human beings by the market as if everything we do is mediated through the market, not just in the economic sphere but in every aspect of our lives. That human life is defined by competition … Continue reading Neoliberalism, Climate Change, Migration: George Monbiot conversation

By outsourcing key intelligence work, the government has made classified material more vulnerable. Apart from the usual cry that Wikileaks is working for the Russians… this article concludes that the problem is … Continue reading Why does WikiLeaks keep publishing U.S. state secrets? Private contractors.

“We’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money.” The EPA — which would lose about $2.6 billion according to the budget blueprint — … Continue reading For once, I promise you won’t believe what the Trump administration said about climate change

President Donald Trump is proposing historically deep budget cuts that would touch almost every federal agency and program and dramatically reorder government priorities to boost defense and security spending, although it’s likely … Continue reading Trump Plans Historic Cuts Across Government to Fund Defense

It was the first time a president has called for ending the endowments, which were created in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Great. Next up, eliminate music lessons in school… and … Continue reading Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments

   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory worked for five years to digitize thousands of reels of film before they fell apart. Maybe by releasing these we might not be so hung-ho on starting … Continue reading Hundreds of films of nuclear bomb blasts films declassified, uploaded to YouTube