Donald Trump’s Inflammatory Brand Of “Sarcasm” Is Gaslighting America

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now says his remarks that President Obama is the "founder of ISIS" were "sarcasm," just one day after repeatedly reaffirming the statement as "no mistake," and after conservative media figures defended his charge as "100 percent accurate." NY Times : "Donald Trump Calls Obama 'Founder of ISIS' and Says It Honors Him."

The Flagging Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Being savaged by Donald J. Trump on one side of the electoral aisle, and modestly beaten by the Democratic presumptive candidate, Hillary Clinton, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is lying somewhere between near death and miraculous survival. Those breathing life into that unfortunate beast remain politicians who embraced the mythology of free trade while never questioning what was free.

Time to Borrow Khan’s Constitution Again

A President Donald Trump might push for Americans accused of terrorism to be tried in military tribunal at the U.S. Navy base in GuantA namo Bay, Cuba, the Republican nominee told the Miami Herald on Thursday. "I would say they could be tried there, that would be fine," Trump said in a brief interview ahead of his speech to home builders in Miami Beach.

One City Is Following Through on Protests of Confederate Monuments

Charlottesville is a diverse, enlightened, and progressive college town in Virginia with its public spaces dominated by war memorials, in particular memorials to Confederate soldiers not from Charlottesville who represent a five-year moment in the centuries of this place's history, as viewed by one wealthy white male racist donor at another moment in the 1920s. As the Black Lives Matter movement took off nationally this year, many Charlottesville residents demanded that imposing monuments to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson be removed from their places of prominence.

Capital Idea, Old Chap

On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians through hookup apps for no particular purpose. The entire piece is an astoundingly creepy exercise in Grindr-baiting, which involves a journalist accessing Grindr in an unlikely setting and ... seeing what happens.

RELEASE: U.S. Government Can Lead Effort to Bridge Climate-Related Risk Insurance Modeling Gap

While the Paris Agreement marked a historic turning point in global efforts to combat climate change, the United States must nevertheless continue to ramp up efforts to help the world's most vulnerable people and countries cope with the near-term increase in climate-change-fueled extreme weather events that are already too late to avert. One tool that countries can use to help better manage and cope with these effects is climate-related risk insurance-yet such insurance is far too scarce across the developing world.

Bridging the Risk Modeling Gap

In 2015, more than 1,000 natural disasters inflicted some $100 billion worth of economic damages around the world. These natural disasters included severe storms, flooding, extreme temperatures, droughts, and wildfires-all of which are expected to increase in frequency for years to come as a result of climate change.

8/10/2016

Fox's in house doctor team who usually have the sense to stay our of politics just ruined their reputations: Disgusting. Who are these quacks to demand to see her neurological files? Whether its emails or her medical files or anything else, Hillary Clinton is allowed absolutely no privacy because a bunch of right wing conspiracy theorists want to rummage around in her personal life.

Trump Appears To Suggest ‘Second Amendment’ Could Stop Clinton

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the audience during a campaign event at Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday. Sara D. Davis/Getty Images hide caption Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the audience during a campaign event at Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 43

Fulton, the creator of the first commercially successful steamship, was born in Pennsylvania, managed to make friends with prominent people, and went to Europe at the age of 23, soon after the end of the American Revolution. He continued to make interesting friends there, including the socialist Robert Owen, who funded one of Fulton's early schemes.