On Tuesday, January 24, 2017, the U.S. House will consider a bill that would permanently bar federal funds for abortions. H.R. 7, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017, would enshrine the Hyde Amendment as permanent federal
— by Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein Newly inaugurated President Donald Trump has expressed a near-autocratic view of executive authority, leading many to worry that he will play fast and loose with the laws that protect Americans’ freedoms. After 9/11, our nation had a taste of
New administration’s official site offers ‘America First Energy Plan’ which boasts ‘direct obstacle to a livable future’ by promoting fracking and coal — by Andrea Germanos, staff writer at CommonDreams Soon after Donald Trump took his oath as the 45th President of the
“Today’s action is all the proof we need to know whose side the Trump administration is on” — by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer at CommonDreams About an hour after President Donald Trump was sworn in on Friday, his administration suspended indefinitely a scheduled
The trump White House and the republican-controlled Congress are preparing to deliver on a corporate and ideologically extremist agenda that threatens our freedom, our democracy, our health care, our planet, our economic security and our most fundamental rights. And, if you haven’t
I listened as they called my President a Muslim. I listened as they called him and his family a pack of monkeys. I listened as they said he wasn’t born here. I watched as they blocked every single path to progress that
Here’s what the Energy page on WhiteHouse.gov looked like minutes before our new president was inaugurated: As soon as our new president said his “I do” … that page and all of it’s program data went dark and was later replaced
In case you weren’t paying attention earlier this month, a bill was introduced in the U.S. House that calls for the removal of the United States from the United Nations. HR 193 — titled as the “American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017” — was introduced
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Many good kids — with the same American dreams my grandparents had — now fear being exiled to a land alien to them. — by Mitchell Zimmerman One day in a Latvian town more than 100 years ago, when my grandmother wasn’t
