Lawsuits took down Big Tobacco. Can they make oil companies accountable for climate change?
California Now World's 5th Largest Economy, Surpassing UK. California's economy has surpassed that of the United Kingdom to become the world's fifth largest, according to new federal data made public Friday. “California's economic output is now surpassed only by the total GDP of the United States, China, Japan and Germany. The data demonstrate the sheer immensity of California's economy, home to nearly 40 million people, a thriving technology sector in Silicon Valley, the world's entertainment capital in Hollywood and the nation's salad bowl in the Central Valley agricultural heartland. It also reflects a substantial turnaround since the Great Recession.”
California is now the world's fifth-largest economy, surpassing United Kingdom. California is now the world's fifth-largest economy. Since 2012, we've added 2 million jobs and grown our GDP by $700 billion.
White House press should stop pretending Sarah Huckabee Sanders is telling the truth "Sanders apparently has no moral qualms about misleading the American people over and over — despite the oath she took to the country, not to the president."
The Bizarre Reaction to the WHCD Reveals We're in Deeper Trouble Than We Thought
Judge Sides With Residents Who Want Trump's Name Off Their NYC Building. The movement to de-Trump buildings reflects a political reality: New York may be the place Donald J. Trump calls home and made his fortune, but he remains distinctly unpopular in much of the city.

How Journalists Hurt Journalism in the Age of Trump. Will journalism and other fundamental democratic institutions survive Trump? Press critic Jay Rosen isn’t sure
Trump tells 57,000 Hondurans who’ve lived in the US for 20 years to get out
Franklin Graham: Trump’s Affair with Stormy Daniels is “Nobody’s Business”. Want more evidence of white evangelical Christian hypocrisy? The same Franklin Graham who wrote in a 1998 opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal: “If [Bill Clinton] will lie to or mislead his wife and daughter, those with whom he is most intimate, what will prevent him from doing the same to the American public?”