Mike Pence Has Led a Crusade Against Abortion Access and LGBT Rights

Hannah Levintova Mother Jones
In Congress, Pence was a champion of conservative and religious causes. He voted against measures aimed at preventing LGBT discrimination and helping families in poverty, and he supported federal legislation prohibiting same-sex marriage.

ExxonMobil: Still Funding Climate Science Denial Groups

Graham Readfearn DESMOG
Now the oil giant is facing lawsuits from a team of state attorneys general after investigations by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times showed the company's own scientists were aware of the risks of burning fossil fuels in the 1980s.

Hey Mr. Policeman

Dwayne Woods portside.org
As the crisis about the use of police power intensifies, the theme of Dwayne Woods's poem pleads for taking care in its most literal sense.

The Abdication of the Left

Dani Rodrick Project Syndicate
The experience in Latin America and southern Europe reveals perhaps a weakness of the left: the absence of a clear program to refashion capitalism and globalization for the twenty-first century. From Greece’s Syriza to Brazil’s Workers’ Party, the left has failed to come up with ideas that are economically sound and politically popular, beyond ameliorative policies such as income transfers.

Jim Zogby on Democrats and the Occupation of Palestine

Palestinians are in for "another difficult four years" as a result of the weakness of the Democratic Party platform's statement on Israel and Palestine, says Jim Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute.