Americans Subsidize The Coal, Gas, And Oil Industries To The Tune Of $2,180 Per American Per Year
Ah, society — takes us decades to turn a simple, life-saving corner. Subsidizing fossil fuels in the 21st century has...
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Should Corporations Have To Tell Us What’s In Our Food?
Thom Hartmann speaks with Patty Lovera, Executive Director of Food And Water Watch, about the DARK Act – the so-called...
Paul Krugman: “The modern Republican Party is in essence a machine designed to deliver high after-tax incomes to the 1 percent”
In his Friday New York Times column, Paul Krugman argued that, when it comes down to it, the real reason...
Neo-Nazi Groups Go All In For Trump
Rick Wilson, one of the most outspoken #NeverTrump Republican figures, tore into Trump’s “neo-Nazi” fanbase on Tuesday night, saying Trump...
Paul Ryan’s “New Idea”: More Giveaways to Corporations
Attention people, there’s big news out of Washington: Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House, has announced that he...
The Hidden Billionaires Behind The Donald
Trump desperately needs to get his tiny hands on some cash to fund his presidential campaign. On TV, Trump may...
Talking Heads At Fox Feel The Pain Of CEO’s Who Are Required To Pay Employees A Living Wage
STUART VARNEY (HOST): How about this one? It is July the 1st, minimum wage increases go into effect today in...
David Cay Johnston: There is “Incredibly Strong Evidence” Donald Trump Has Committed Tax Fraud
For months, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns. We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning...
U.S. income gap widened last year as top 1 percent gained most
WASHINGTON — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top 1...
Right-Wing Trickle Down Economics Leaves a Wake of Ruin in Kansas
Slate has joined The New York Times and The Kansas City Star in highlighting what’s wrong with Kansas’ “insane right-wing...
President Obama: Donald Trump is a fake populist who has “never shown any regard for workers.”
Obama said: “Now, somebody else who has never shown any regard for workers, has never fought on behalf of social...
Victory For Labor — D.C. Enacts $15 Minimum Wage
The growing Fight for 15 movement had a huge victory this week. Washington, D.C. passed legislation on Monday night that...
Donald Trump’s “Veterans Donations” Is Actually A Political Slush Fund
Donald Trump’s “veteran donations” seem to just be a political slush fund. And, like every horrible thing this guy does,...
Long Awaited “Obamacare” Replacement Epitomizes Republican Barbarism
Most Americans comprehend what it means to be cruel, sadistic, and diabolical because they’ve witnessed Republicans exhibit those qualities in...
Obama Criticizes Republicans In Congress For Obstructing Climate Action
Over the weekend, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park. He used the occasion to slam congressional Republicans for their intransigent...
Elizabeth Warren’s Fight Against Payday Lenders Comes to the Post Office
Nine years ago, a Harvard law professor dreamed up a new concept: a government agency devoted solely to protecting consumers...
Editorial Propagandists at Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Shill for Exxon
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has tried every trick in the book to wrongly defend ExxonMobil against allegations that...
Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Billionaire Trump For Skipping Taxes
Editor’s Note: While this isn’t explicitly stated below, Trump has mentioned before an intention to all but wipe out the “Department...
Right-Wing Ideologue Paul Ryan Plans To Weaken, Roll Back, & Undermine Existing Regulations
While megatons of attention are understandably being paid to Donald Trump’s latest fascist spew, another Republican is laying out an agenda showing anyone...
New York Attorney General: Trump University is “Straight Up Fraud”
Appearing Thursday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had strong words for the recent Trump...
DuPont Knowingly Poured Poison in the Ohio River and Turned a Blind Eye
America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on RT’s Redacted Tonight to discuss DuPont’s history with a deadly product known as C8,...
Trump’s Bullying: Frivolous Lawsuits Run Amok
Donald Trump is not one to shy away from lawsuits. Any prominent figure – from politicians to comedians to journalists...
Exxon’s CEO Convinces Shareholders that Profit is More Important than Human Survival
After a long battle to even get on the agenda for ExxonMobil’s 2016 Annual Meeting, the company’s shareholders on Wednesday...
Charles Koch’s High School Economics Project Teaches “Sacrificing Lives for Profits”
Charles Koch is known for being CEO of industrial giant Koch Industries and a chief financier of the massive conservative...
The Donald Says Gutting Social Security Is Morally Right
A person concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior, the goodness or badness of human character, or one...
Why the Verizon Worker’s Victory is A Big Deal
On Friday, May 27, the six-and-a-half-week Verizon strike came to an end with a tentative contract agreement. The Communications Workers...
Coal Company CEOs Took Huge Raises While Killing Jobs
One of the defining traits of conservatives, particularly wealthy conservatives, is embracing any policy that enriches the already wealthy at...
Just What Were Donald Trump’s Ties to the Mafia?
In his signature book, “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino...
McDonald’s CEO Admits Obama’s Economy and Higher Wages Is A Huge Success
The CEO of McDonald’s fast food chain, Steve Easterbrook, was pleased to announce that driven by the President’s push for...
Elizabeth Warren labels Trump a ‘money-grubber’ who rooted against the American economy
lizabeth Warren unloaded on Donald Trump in a speech on Tuesday night, calling him a “money-grubber”, a tool of the...
Con-Artist Trump Twice Skipped Paying Taxes
The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Intend To Spend $42 Million To Keep Mitch McConnell In Power
The Koch brothers are no fans of Donald Trump, but there has been no bigger defender of their dark money...
Corporate Fossil Fuel Lobbying Efforts Mirror Tobacco Industry
We hear a lot these days about how fossil fuel companies are spending large amounts of money to influence policy...
Uninsured Rate Cut to Single Digits Thanks to Obamacare
More than 7 million Americans who were previously uninsured received healthcare coverage in 2015, during the second full year of...
If You Have A Serious Illness, Paul Ryan Wants To Help You Die Sooner
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) dropped some hints about what the Republican alternative to Obamacare will look like,...
Petition Calls For Employers To Offer Fossil-Free Retirement Options
Many in the US are at least partly reliant upon employer-offered retirement planning for their post-employment financial well-being. With that...
Instead of Lobbying, Utilities Could Have Doubled US Solar Capacity
The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute just released a report analyzing the top 25 US investor-owned electric utilities, and one...
Reactionary Koch Brother Pawn Rick Scott Vetoes Bill That Helps the Poor
It takes hardly any time at all to find examples of Republicans in positions of power who seem to relish...
The End of Big Money in Elections? 6 Reasons to Think So
This year’s presidential election is projected to be the most expensive in U.S. history. As of this writing, more $127 million...
Judge Tosses Out Scott Walker’s Unconstitutional Anti-Union Law
After long last, unions got a big win today in Wisconsin as Judge C. William Foust tossed out Governor Scott...
Oil Companies Have Lied About Climate Change For Decades While Sitting On The Proof
A 48 year old report recently unearthed reveals that oil executives knew about the effects that the extraction and burning...
Bernie Sanders: Verizon is the poster child for corporate greed
Hours after he had joined the picket line alongside Verizon workers, Senator Sanders was speaking to thousands of supporters in...
Raising The Minimum Wage Popular With Americans
Americans are broadly supportive of proposals to raise the minimum wage, although they can’t agree on how high it should...
Harry Reid Exposes The Koch Brother’s Obstructionism
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is not impressed with Republican senators right now. Reid, a staunch believer in old...
Americans Favor Bernie Sanders’ Tax Plan
A new WalletHub/Survey Monkey poll of 2016 taxpayers found that Bernie Sanders has the most popular tax plan of all...
New York Joins California on the Path to a $15 Minimum Wage and Paid Family Leave
California’s legislature passed a $15 minimum wage on Thursday—and the same day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislators made a...
