Lauren McCauley

Trump’s Paris Deal Withdrawal Sparks Overwhelming Global Response

Following Trump’s announcement, world leaders from China to Germany to the Marshall Islands and beyond promised to uphold the climate accord.

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By Lauren McCauley
Germans protest against US President Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement in front the the US embassy in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 2, 2017. (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)

The overwhelming global response to President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement was essentialy, "Go jump in a lake"—or as one Germany tabloid succinctly phrased it in a widely circulated headline: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/870532722237853697 Following Trump's Thursday announcement, world

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Trump’s Dump Of Ethics Waivers Ends The “Drain the Swamp Illusion”

The new provisions grant lobbyists from some of the most contentious industries the freedom to influence policy making in those very same arenas.

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By Lauren McCauley
President Donald Trump talks with reporters n the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, before signing an executive order on the Keystone XL pipeline. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Candidate Donald Trump's pledge to "drain the swamp" was apparently made with a slew of caveats, which were exposed late Wednesday when the White House posted details of ethics waivers granted to at least 16 senior staff members. Among the notice (pdf), which detailed 14 different waived ethics rules, are provisions granting lobbyists from some

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Comcast Threatens Legal Action Against Net Neutrality Proponents

If FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s plan “is enacted, there would be nothing preventing Comcast from simply blocking sites like Comcastroturf.com that are critical of their corporate policies”

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By Lauren McCauley
a silhouetted coaxial cable

Open Internet proponents who have been fighting the Trump administration's rollback of net neutrality protections, which has been enacted at the bidding of the telecom industry, said Tuesday that Comcast is now threatening legal action saying the website Comcastroturf.com is infringing on its trademark. As the organization Fight for the Future

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Trump Official Praises Autocratic Rule: ‘Not A Single Hint Of A Protester’ In Saudi Arabia

No ‘bad placards’ in a nation where such political dissent is punishable by death.

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By Lauren McCauley
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross talks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Putting a fine point on the spin that President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East has been a glowing, peace-dealing success, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross praised the fact that there were no protesters in Saudi Arabia—a nation where political dissonance is punishable by death. Speaking to CNBC on Monday, Ross, who accompanied Trump on the

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“Corruption, Plain And Simple”: Kushner ‘Golden Visa’ Scandal Snowballs

While the White House hides behind more alternative facts, the outrage has seemingly multiplied.

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By Lauren McCauley
White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner arrives for a meeting between President Donald Trump and automobile leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The latest White House scandal over the president's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner benefiting from the recent extension of the so-called "golden visa" program continues to dog the administration, despite its best efforts to brush it aside. The New York Times on Monday revealed that buried deep (pdf) into the spending package signed

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Plans To Unseat GOP Lawmakers Already Underway Following American Healthcare Act Vote

President Trump celebrated with House Republicans in the White House Rose Garden amid growing call to ‘make them pay.’

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By Lauren McCauley
In this May 4, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP/Evan Vucci)

As Republicans joined President Donald Trump for a victory photo op and beer bash at the White House following the passage of the American Healthcare Act (AHCA) in the House of Representatives on Thursday, the overwhelming response from progressive organizations and voters furious over the prospect of losing their healthcare coverage was: "See you

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‘For-Profit Presidency:’ 100 Days Into Trump’s Corporate Takeover

“The true depth of the administration’s unswerving commitment to an especially savage version of corporate capitalism is now, as we approach the first 100 days under the Trump administration, utterly clear.”

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By Lauren McCauley
President Donald Trump, flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, meets with members of the media regarding the health care overhaul bill, March 24, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Donald Trump approaches his 100th day in office the most unpopular U.S. leader in modern history for a reason. Exacerbating his failure to uphold his populist campaign promises, a new report found that Trump spent the majority of his presidency enriching his own business empire while appointing fellow "corporate cronies" at the highest

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