Peter Chin-Hong, University of California, San Francisco With the highly infectious delta coronavirus variant spreading at an alarming rate, the World Health Organization in late June 2021 urged people to again wear masks indoors – even those who are fully vaccinated. And on July 15, Los Angeles County, California, announced that it would again…
Before you say that what the GOP is doing won’t work or can’t end democracy in America, you may want to make a trip to Budapest By Thom Hartmann The GOP seems to have gone nuts. But, in reality, they’re following a plan. And it’s not even a new plan; it’s worked elsewhere. Seventeen…
If the filibuster can’t be done away with or turned into a “Jimmy Stewart filibuster,” then Congress has the obligation to Act on the “Nuclear Option” By Thom Hartmann Reprinted by permission of the author The US Senate is back in session this week, as Texas Republicans prepare to pass another massive voter suppression bill….
Editor’s Note: I’ve been searching through old articles published here a decade ago, about our struggle to prevent Emgold Corporation from re-opening the Idaho-Maryland Mine. Many of the articles are too dated to reprint now, for instance ones that discussed Emgold’s plan to build a ceramics factory to repurpose old mine tailings. Rise has…
In the latest Atlantic Monthly, Adam Serwer explains: Republicans are not blocking a bipartisan January 6 commission because they fear Trump, or because they want to “move on” from 2020. They are blocking a January 6 commission because they agree with the underlying ideological claim of the rioters, which is that Democratic electoral victories…