Frank Ackerman

Who Needs the Dakota Access Pipeline?

The final link of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) can now be built, thanks to a recent decision by the Army Corps of Engineers (although the Cheyenne River Sioux have filed a last-minute suit to...

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Naomi Dann

Netanyahu and Trump: A Shared Focus on Terrorism

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit with President Trump at the White House this week. It will be a true meeting of minds. Both leaders are bombastic and rely on false claims, fear-...

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Adam Frank

Why I'd Rather Not March

"The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer." This motto of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers during World War II neatly sums up a particularly American way of looking at...

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Richard Eskow

Steve Mnuchin Is No Joe Kennedy and He’s Unfit for His New Gig

There are plenty of signs that Steve Mnuchin is not a good guy, even by the lax standards of today’s banking industry. OneWest, a bank he established with partners and ran from 2009 to 2015, mounted...

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Juan Cole

After Miller’s Mega-Lies, Time to Rev Back Up the Reality Based Community

Stephen Miller, a snot-nosed kid with a bad attitude, advertised as White House senior policy adviser, delivered himself of some stern jeremiads on Sunday on Meet the Press, along with many Big Lies...

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