Repressive right-wing regimes in Eastern Europe blazed the trail for the bully.

It should be noted that one of the reasons Fidesz remains popular is that it shuts down newspapers and institutions that don't bow down to it.

Fracking companies have set up a pretend-movement in favor of fracking.

Given money, it it is possible to make any position appear valid and rally some people to it. The frackers' arguments will probably persuade some people, if only those who don't recognize what harm fracking does and can do. But that doesn't make it anything but a form of PR manipulation.

The American Petroleum Institute lobbies for a weak voluntary methane leak reduction program, as a substitute for the current mandatory program.

Businesses always say, "Don't regulate us -- let us do the job 'voluntarily." Do you trust them to really do it? Or will they save money by not really doing it?

Some Honduran police are not thugs. They refused to repress protests against the attempted theft of the election.

Senator McConnell won Senator Collins's vote for the tax attacks by making several specific promises, which he has already broken.

The Senate needs to vote again on the reconciled bill. Will Collins vote for it again because of already-broken promises?