The Environmental Protection Agency has cut its enforcement actions to about 1/4 the previous rate, and fines are less too.

We could call it the Environmental Pushover agency, but I fear the whole truth is even worse than that.

Since successful companies owe a lot of their success to public activities such as infrastructure, education, and research, they should have to contribute a substantial part of their income to the public.

The bully refused to allow publication of the Democrats' rebuttal to the Republicans' dishonest memo attacking the Mueller investigation.

The Republicans on that committee, headed by Rep. Nunes himself, consult closely with the bully. When they voted to approve release of the Democrats' counter-memo, they surely knew that the bully would block it.

I suppose the Democrats anticipated this too. Now they can say, "We can show that's not true, but the bully forbids us to tell you."

Unfortunately, that won't influence the bully's supporters much. They don't care that the Nunes memo is dishonest, even incoherent; they believe the conclusion anyway.

In effect, the Democrats are helpless against the height of Republican dishonesty and manipulation.

The low wages paid by Uber and Lyft have driven some cab and limo drivers to suicide.

They blame state governments for eliminating cities' power to regulate those companies.

Democrats can't win in November just by pointing at the bully. They have to stand for something much better than moving back to the older form of plutocracy.