Paris Climate Accords

Power: Must Be ‘More Ambitious’ Than Paris Climate Goals

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” USAID Administrator Samantha Power stated that we need to make the targets under the Paris Climate Accords “more ambitious” and the U.S. needs to “accelerate” meeting its targets under the agreement. Power

Israel Samantha Power

California’s ‘Resistance’ to Trump Has Been a Dud

The 2017 California state legislative session began with the metaphorical roar of “resistance” to President Donald Trump’s policies, but is ending with a weak whimper. According to a piece published on the CalMatters blog, the “resistance” movement launched with so much fanfare that “[a] hashtag

San Francisco Gay Pride parade resist (Elivah Nouvelage / Getty)

Rep. Mo Brooks on Bannon: ‘Washington Swamp Have Taken Control of the White House’

Rep. Mo Brooks (R., Ala.) — who finished third in last week’s Senate vote between establishment favorite Sen. Luther Strange (R., Ala.) and conservative firebrand and former state Supreme Court justice Roy Moore — said Steve Bannon’s West Wing departure and President Trump’s endorsement of Sen. Strange is a sign that the establishment swamp has seized control of the White House.

Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., speaks with reporters as he leaves the House Republican Conference

Top 7 Worst Reasons to Keep the Paris Climate Accord

Defenders of the Paris climate agreement are scrambling to come up with reasons why President Trump should not pull the United States out. Many of them are contradictory, some are downright offensive, and none have anything to do with science.

People with umbrellas walk on the human rights plaza in front of the Eiffel tower during a