August 8, 2017—Scientists from 13 agencies have delivered to the White House the quadrennial National Climate Assessment mandated by federal law. An inconvenient truth for the Trump administration's climate-deniers: the report roundly confirms human-caused global warming and its increasingly deleterious impact on the U.S.

July 17, 2017 — Right-wing critics would like to use safety problems at Job Corps residential centers as a pretext to defund the program. For many young Americans, residential Job Corps centers provide "a safer environment" and are "transformational for the overwhelming number of students who finish the program," according to Virginia Democrat Bobby Scott. The Social Democrat supports yet greater investment in bringing otherwise marginalized youth into the nation's economic mainstream.

July 17, 2017 — A current plank of the right's propaganda machine is that Obamacare is "exploding" in a "death spiral." The program's problems are largely limited to states whose right-wing governments have made little effort to make the program work, writes economist Dean Baker in this L.A. Times op-ed.

July 11, 2017 — A newly issued report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that the impact of increasingly damaging human activity on other animal populations is even more severe than previously thought and warns that "humanity will eventually pay a very high price for the decimation of the only assemblage of life that we know of in the universe."

July 11, 2017 — Seattle's City Council unanimously passed a measure Monday which will levy a 2.25% income tax on incomes over $250,000. With no state-level income tax, this legislation creates the first income tax in Washington. As multiple economic forces contribute to a widening gap between high earners and all other citizens, The Social Democrat supports higher taxes on the highly paid to support needed social democratic priorities.

July 6, 2017 — Swedish automaker Volov has announced that, beginning in 2019, it will discontinue all models powered solely by gasoline engines in favor of electric and hibrid.