“Instead of fighting the rising cost of healthcare, gas, or groceries, this Congress prioritized rewarding the wealthy and well-connected military-industrial complex,” said Defense Spending Reduction Caucus co-chairs. Despite the Pentagon’s repeated failures to pass audits and various alarming policies, 81 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted with 200 Republicans on Wednesday to advance a $883.7 […]
“Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is all risk with no reward,” said one advocate. Wildlife protection groups and Indigenous leaders in Alaska said Monday that they would push to discourage bidding in an oil and gas lease sale just announced by the U.S. Interior Department for part of the Arctc National […]
“We do not need to spend almost a trillion dollars on the military, while half a million Americans are homeless and children go hungry,” Sen. Bernie Sanders writes in a new op-ed. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday announced his opposition to an annual military policy bill that would authorize a Pentagon budget of nearly $850 billion, a […]
The law, said the Democrat, “cements New Jersey’s role on the forefront of preventing book bans and protecting the intellectual freedom of our educators and students.” Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday signed legislation protecting librarians and prohibiting public schools and libraries from banning books—a move that came as Republican state lawmakers are […]