Bill would stop private investors, including hedge funds, farmers and municipalities, from profiting off water scarcityWith private investors poised to profit from water scarcity in the west, US senator Elizabeth Warren and representative Ro Khanna are pursuing a bill to prohibit the trading of water as a commodity.The lawmakers will introduce the bill on Thursday afternoon, the Guardian has learned. “Water is not a commodity for the rich and powerful to profit off of,” said Warren, the...
By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last week that she believes international courts could interpret Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, according to a video posted by a GBH News reporter, after noting she thinks “what Israel is doing is wrong.” “If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that
By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last week that she believes international courts could interpret Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, according to a video posted by a GBH News reporter, after noting she thinks “what Israel is doing is wrong.” “If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that
By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said last week that she believes international courts could interpret Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, according to a video posted by a GBH News reporter, after noting she thinks “what Israel is doing is wrong.” “If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. For left-of-center policy wonks, this is shaping up as a banner week. Here in Washington, the journal Democracy is holding a “Middle-Out Economics” conference, featuring a host of progressive economists, Biden administration appointees, union think-tankers, and political consultants who grapple with the conundrum of how to… Source
Today on TAP: With big money counting on the courts, progressives are taking the fight to the court of public opinion.
April is National Donate Life Month, a time to raise awareness for organ donation.
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, hasn’t said a lot about Russia’s war in Ukraine, the biggest international news story before Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza shoved it off the front pages. When Trump does mention the conflict, he tends to keep his comments extremely vague. At times, they’re contradictory. The day before Russia’s full-scale invasion more than two years ago, for instance, Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin “genius” and “savvy”...
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter I love a good cover or reimagining of a hit song. Like “Sweet Child of Mine” by the band “Taken By Trees” Or Dolly Parton’s cover
CNN’s Briana Keilar weighs in on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s comments on Arizona’s legislature saying Hannity was right in saying its legislature is almost evenly divided on Arizona’s civil-war-era abortion ban.
Panel rejected argument that rules granted California powers denied to other states
The former prime minister said the late monarch was ‘an extremely wise woman and so, so on the ball’ in her new book.