Activists Target Reactionary Midwest Politicians Opposing Wage Increases
U.S. activists plan protests in up to 400 cities across the United States on Monday’s Labor Day holiday to demand...
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Before Harvey Hit, Trump Voided A Federal Rule To Protect Infrastructure From Future Flooding
President Donald Trump, who will visit Texas on Tuesday for a first-hand look at Hurricane Harvey’s deluge of rainfall, flooding...
Exxon Mobil Misled Public On Climate Change For 40 Years, Study Reveals
Exxon Mobil Corp. deliberately deceived the public about the dangers of climate change for four decades, a new Harvard University study...
Report: Vacationing Trump Entourage Bankrupting Secret Service
The Secret Service can’t pay hundreds of its agents to protect President Donald Trump’s large family and their frequent travel, Director...
Fox News Spent $50 Million To Settle Sexual Harassment Suits In The Last Year
According to the latest round of financial filings, Fox News has had to pay out $50 million in the last...
Alt-Right Fascist Trump Goes Off The Rails With His Moral Equivalency Rant
President Donald Trump spoke again Tuesday on the white supremacist conflict in Charlottesville, Virginia, defending his much-criticized initial statement on the protests and...
The Secret Service Spent $13,500 Of Taxpayer Money On Golf Cart Rentals For One Trump Vacation
While millions of Americans are underpaid and worried about the future of their health care, the Secret Service spent $13,500...
Obama Raises $10.8 Million To Combat GOP Election Rigging
The Obama backed, and Eric Holder chaired, National Democratic Redistricting Committee has raised $10.8 million in six months in their...
Bernie Sanders Attacks Nissan’s ‘Greedy’ Anti-Union Campaign
Bernie Sanders has attacked Nissan for doing “everything it can” to stop workers from unionizing at its Mississippi plant despite...
Bernie Sanders To Propose New Rule Requiring Fair Prices For Taxpayer-Funded Drugs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to propose a new rule Monday that would require pharmaceutical companies to charge fair prices...
Rooftop Solar Is Growing Like A Weed, Despite Fossil Fuel Billionaires Trying To Crush It
Thom Hartmann talks about the growing interest and support for residential solar power applications, and all the way dirty fossil...
Trumpcare is Dead. Long Live Obamacare!
Seven years of Republican promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act withered away to almost nothing on the Senate floor...
Trump’s EPA Met With Chemical Maker Before Approving Pesticide That Poisons Children
The EPA recently decided to drop a ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, even though doctors, experts, and the agency’s own...
The Wrong President To Tout ‘Made in America’ Week
You might have missed “energy week” at the White House. It followed “transportation week.” And who can forget the unbridled...
Bernie Sanders Celebrates Trump’s Crushing Healthcare Defeat In The Senate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) celebrated the collapse of the Republican health care bill and called it a great victory for...
Tobacco Companies Tighten Hold On Washington Under Trump
Tobacco companies have moved swiftly to strengthen their grip on Washington politics, ramping up lobbying efforts and securing significant regulatory...
Deluded Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks Says Universal Healthcare Too Expensive, Tax Cuts For Wealthy Are Necessary
Republican Congressman Mo Brooks from Alabama told CNN that enacting a universal healthcare program in the United States is just...
California Governor Jerry Brown Trolls Climate Change Denier Trump At G20
While President Trump was blowing off the G20 session on climate change to spend more than 2 hours chilling with Vlad Putin,...
After Slashing Medicaid, Republicans Take Aim At Food Stamps
After taking a meat ax to Medicaid – a program that more than 70 million American rely on – in...
Fossil Fuel Industry Conspires To Corrupt Elementary School Curriculum
The most sinister force in public education in America’s heartland goes by the rather benign name of the Oklahoma Energy...
Bipartisan Bills Aim to Close Tax Loophole for Rich Sports Owners
In 1986, a tax reform bill included language that would allow bonds to be tax exempt if they were used...
Bernie Sanders: Thousands Of Americans Will Die Because Of ‘Barbaric’ Trumpcare Plan
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare as a “barbaric” plan that means thousands will die...
Obama Blasts Republicans For Stealing People’s Heath Care In Order To Cut Taxes For Rich
In a lengthy post on his Facebook page, former President Obama called for Democrats and Republicans to work together to...
The Trump Family and Its Shadowy Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Organized Crime
The special counsel’s investigation of the White House has come more sharply into focus. Robert Mueller is examining whether President...
The Jobs That Trump Thanked Ford For Saving Are Now Moving To China
President Trump took credit for pushing the auto companies around to force them to keep jobs in the U.S., which...
Sen. Orrin Hatch Plays Dumb and Claims He Hasn’t Seen The Secret GOP Trumpcare Bill
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) doesn’t know what’s in the Senate health care bill he’s going to vote for either, so...
Nevada May Become First State To Offer Medicaid To All
Nevadans will find out this week whether their state will become the first in the country to allow anyone to...
Wall Street Salary And Bonuses Show America’s Rich Are Getting Richer As Inequality Deepens
Wednesday’s big news on Wall Street wasn’t that for yet another year its average wage and bonuses put finance employees...
A Sick First Family: Trump Clan Used a So-Called “Charity” to Line Their Own Pockets
Eric Trump, Donald’s second-eldest son, is one of those who runs the Trump Organization. Until the end of last year,...
Prince Secretly Donated $25 Million To Help Solar Power Startups
It’s been a little over a year since the world lost Prince, but his influence is still strong as ever and...
Republicans Forsake Morality for Money In Climate Accord Exit
Always follow the money. It was never about the coal miners whose jobs are disappearing due to automation and the...
Bernie Sanders Unmasks Trump’s Budget Director as a Fraudster
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
The Fox News Channel: The Epitome of Fake News
Former Fox News contributor Tobin Smith is exposing Fox News as a scam that is designed to manipulate and fool...
White House Admits Trump Lied About Bringing Back Coal Jobs
The White House’s real position on bringing back coal jobs was revealed after Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn made it...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Dark Secret That Trump’s Budget Is Desperately Trying To Hide
During an interview with NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s budget an abomination and exposed the...
Rick Perry’s Early Days As Energy Secretary Have Been A Bonanza For Corporations And The Koch Brothers
Most people who know anything about Rick Perry know he’s a friend to the fossil fuel industry. For 14 years,...
Daily Death Tolls Pushed Up By Big Pharma’s Opioid Epidemic
According to data by the Center for Disease Control, 91 Americans die every day from overdosing on opioids, in the...
Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls & Fakes Science to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk
Internet trolls, paid for by Monsanto, have been scouring the internet to hide the ugly truth about the herbicide Roundup...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Spent Heavily To Put A Climate Change Denier In Charge Of EPA
A new report shows that the Koch Brothers spent part of a $3.1 million fund to help get Scott Pruitt...
Federal Employees Are Being Forced To Watch Fox (Fake) News, Leaked Memo Says
According to a leaked memo from the Trump administration, employees in the White House and throughout government agencies are being...
Warren Buffett Says Trumpcare Is A Big Giveaway To The Richest One Percent
For a guy who stands to keep over half-a-million dollars, Warren Buffett is not too pleased. In a Monday appearance...
Catholics Petition The Senate To Stop Trump From Taking Health Care From Americans
The group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is calling on US Senators to stand up and stop...
Despite What The Corporate Media Professes, Survey Shows Young People Want Progressive Change
A new survey conducted by the Runawayinequality.org Educational Network shows that younger Americans (ages 18-40) overwhelmingly support bold proposals to...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Raise The Minimum Wage
Sen. Bernie Sanders along with House and Senate Democrats introduced a bill today that will give Democrats a powerful rallying...
Rupert Murdoch’s Corporate Legacy: Chronic Sexual Harassment and Rampant Lawbreaking
Bill O’Reilly may be gone at Fox News, but Rupert Murdoch’s festering Fox News mess isn’t going away anytime soon....
Reality Check: Today’s Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal
President Trump has promised to revive the coal industry and double down on fossil fuels, creating “so many energy jobs,”...
