.
Jeffrey Clark is a longtime lawyer for energy companies and was an environmental prosecutor under George W. Bush.
William Rivers Pitt of Truthout: Every single president at some point probably joked about pardoning themselves. Trump is the first president to really mean it.
People watch a television broadcast reporting the North Korean missile launch at the Seoul Railway Station on July 4, 2017, in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo: Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
When the US signed the armistice agreement dividing the Korean Peninsula, it promised to negotiate a permanent peace settlement. Right now, with President Moon in South Korea and pro-diplomacy women in key foreign ministry posts in the region, the prospects for reaching an agreement are hopeful, and the US should fulfill its moral and legal responsibility.
In a last-ditch effort to save their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Senate leaders are reportedly offering $200 billion to win the votes of senators from states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA. The amount is only 17 percent of the bill's $1.2 trillion in cuts.
The American public housing system suffers from a toxic convergence of long-deferred maintenance, squeezed budgets and cost-cutting measures. And the drastic $6 billion cut to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's funding proposed in President Donald Trump's 2018 budget could not come at a worse time.
FOLLOW TRUTHOUT 
