By Julia Conley / Common Dreams —
Critics chastise Ryan Zinke for allegedly targeting Sen. Lisa Murkowski as payback for her refusal to go along with the GOP’s health care plan.
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By Laura Gottesdiener / TomDispatch —
The United States is focusing its energies—and warplanes—in areas of eastern Syria occupied by Islamic State. This U.S. offensive is dubbed “Wrath of the Euphrates.”
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The timing of the statement was conspicuous, given President Trump’s recently tweeted stance on transgender members of the military, and the DOJ’s comments set a dangerous precedent.
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By Jon Queally / Common Dreams —
Senate Republicans plan to finalize details of a bill that would roll back part of the Affordable Care Act, but opponents, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, call the bill disastrous.
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The president announces via Twitter that those individuals will be barred because of “the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”
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Tuesday’s progress gives way to Wednesday’s quagmire for Senate Republicans in their repeal-and-replace quest. (Pictured, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.)
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By Carrie Rickey — Director Kathryn Bigelow turns the tragic events of July 1967 in Detroit into a tense suspense film—while illuminating how the central conflicts of that time remain highly volatile.
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By Emma Niles — The news came the same day President Trump called undocumented immigrant gang members “animals” in a xenophobic speech in Ohio.
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By Joe Sexton / ProPublica —
Documenting Hate, a project by a coalition of news organizations, is sustaining a focus on incidents of racial, religious or sexual prejudice. (Pictured, malevolent graffiti is removed.)
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By Jordan Riefe — The follow-up documentary to the surprise 2006 hit is half environmental update and half celebration of all things Al Gore.
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By Emma Niles — The work, based on the band’s experiences in court and while imprisoned for its art, is part of a campaign for prison reform, member Nadya Tolokonnikova (pictured) tells Truthdig.
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Several Republican senators, including John McCain, ended up siding with their party after keeping colleagues—and concerned voters—in suspense.
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By Medea Benjamin / AlterNet —
The path to a more peaceful world begins by universalizing resistance to militarism.
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By Emma Niles — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official, who chose to remain anonymous, adds that he sees more “contempt” in the agency’s culture under the Trump administration.
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