Haake: European court rules that climate action is a human right
In an historic ruling that could change the trajectory of a rapidly heating planet, a court of law with binding jurisdiction over most of Europe has ruled that governments can...
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Haake: Netanyahu is weakening Israel one strike at a time
In an airstrike last Monday in Syria, Israel’s military displayed the kind of pinpoint accuracy for which the Israeli Defense Force is both known and feared. The IDF’s precision strike...
Haake: No, Donald, fraud is not protected by the First Amendment
On Thursday, Donald Trump’s lawyers appeared in court in Fulton County, Georgia, to argue that election fraud is protected by the First Amendment.
Haake: TikTok disinformation is no worse than Fox News
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to require TikTok to divest its Chinese ownership or be banned in the U.S. due to national security concerns. The security...
Haake: Biden’s economic plan is working
Over the past 50 years, before the GOP went all in on fascism and isolationism, the most dramatic difference between Democrats and Republicans lurked in the driest of places: their...
Haake: Three weeks to restore an insurrectionist; Seven months to say he can’t assassinate his rivals
After showing a remarkable lack of interest in the underlying facts, the U.S. Supreme Court has kept an adjudicated insurrectionist — who is, by definition, unfit to be president —...
Marching toward theocracy — one zygote at a time
The only thing more outrageous than vesting the contents of a petri dish with legal rights is the Alabama Supreme Court’s use of religion to get there. Two-thirds of Americans...
Haake: Traitors in the house
Less than a week after Donald Trump invited Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to American allies, Vladimir Putin had Alexei Navalny, his strongest political adversary, murdered in...
Haake: Forget insurrection. Aiding the enemy is treason.
In April 1949, the world reeled from unspeakable horrors. An estimated 85 million people suffered agonizing deaths in WWII — 45 million soldiers were smeared across battlefields; 25 million people...
Haake: Indiana’s cruelty for profit legislation
The Indiana House of Representatives has passed a bill that will increase animal abuse in the name of corporate profit. HB 1412, deceptively named “Canine standard of care,” was passed...