Environment and Health
Repeal and Destroy
Tongue Tied
Mad about the Climate? Don’t Cheer Up!
On June 1, President Trump announced that he'll withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. If that makes you mad, good. If that makes you outraged and disgusted, even better. We have good reason. Even for a president whose administration has quickly...
Rural Communities Have the Most to Lose With Health Care Repeal
For thirty years, I’ve helped people fight for health care. In one of my proudest moments, I worked with people in small towns across Idaho to expand Medicaid for children. So I’ve seen what people can accomplish when we demand that elected representatives do the...
The ‘Why’ Behind Bad Grades
The end of the school year has a tendency to bring crises to my attention. I'm a graduate teaching assistant, which means I have more face-to-face contact with the students than the professor I work for. I know their names and I know them as individuals. There are...
Saving America’s Great Places
I'm writing this from Yellowstone National Park. Established in 1872, this was our first National Park. The world's first, in fact. In an interesting window into how politics worked then (and now, arguably), Congress agreed to preserve this land only after being...
Congress Wants to Cut Your Health Care — And Billionaires’ Taxes
Members of the House GOP were in a hurry on May 4 to pass their bill to gut Obamacare. They rushed it through before anyone even had a chance to check its cost or calculate its impact on people's access to insurance. Their urgency, however, had little to do with...
Getting Out of Our Coal Hole
When you’re in a hole, it’s usually best to stop digging. But when President Trump told supporters at his 100th day rally in Pennsylvania that "we are putting our coal miners back to work," he just burrowed deeper into the bed of administration lies on energy. The...
All You Need Is Hate
Wanted: 1.5 Billion Immigrants
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously promised to deport every person living in this country without proper papers. I have another idea: The 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. should be granted citizenship immediately in a mass induction....
