July 30, 2017 by Bill Moyers This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com. Watching the craziness in the Senate this week, as Mitch McConnell and the GOP’s zealots drove their clown car into a brick wall and yet another effort to take away health care coverage from millions crashed and burned, I thought back to a […]
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Energy Department Turns Off the Lights at Overseas Climate Office
June 19, 2017 – As if withdrawing from the Paris Accords wasn’t enough, the Trump administration just went one better and closed an office dedicated to international cooperation on climate change and clean energy tech. The Office of International Climate and Clean Energy might have been small — all of its 11 employees have been […]
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Bill Moyers: Trump and the GOP in Sickness and Ill Health
March 28, 2017 – The day after Republicans pulled the plug on Trumpcare (or was it Ryancare?), the front-page headline of the tabloid New York Post asked: “Is There a Doctor in the House?” None were in sight, but there were plenty of quacks wielding butcher knives instead of scalpels as they turned the body […]
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Bill Moyers: Donald Trump’s Demolition Derby
Jan. 27, 2017 – We’re a week into the Trump administration and it’s pretty obvious what he’s up to. First, Donald Trump is running a demolition derby: He wants to demolish everything he doesn’t like, and he doesn’t like a lot, especially when it comes to government. Like one of those demolition drivers on a […]