Trump’s narrow victory in enough states to win the Electoral College despite losing the national popular vote has sparked a firestorm of debate over that institution.
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As Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Donald J. Trump’s appointees have yet to complete the background checks and ethics clearances customarily required…
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Republicans Prepare Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood
January 8, 2017Republicans are once again threatening to defund Planned Parenthood. They’ve tried and failed before, but they could have new momentum this time around with control of the House, Senate and…
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Republicans Would Repeal Obamacare In Precisely The Way They Accuse Democrats Of Enacting It
January 8, 2017Secret negotiating, misrepresentation and a rush to judgment — yep, it’s all there.
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How to Fight Food Waste With Food Waste
January 3, 2017Apeel Sciences uses what might otherwise be trash to make a second skin for fragile fruit and vegetable products.
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House Republicans to Gut Ethics Watchdog
January 3, 2017Drain the … womp womp!
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Four Cabinet nominations that could blow up in Donald Trump’s face
December 26, 2016It would only take a handful of GOP turncoats to torpedo some controversial nods.
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Rex Tillerson Supposedly Shifted Exxon Mobil’s Climate Position. Except He Really Didn’t.
December 26, 2016The oil giant’s transformation on global warming was more rhetorical than anything else.
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Elon Musk breaks down climate change for students at The Sorbonne in Paris right before the historic COP21 Climate Change Conference in which 170+ nations si…
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British Muslims send message to ISIS and the world—and it’s spot on
December 26, 2016Often scorned and associated with terrorists, innocent Muslims around the world have suffered ridicule, discrimination, abuse, torture, and murder.