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...
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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...
Sanders Says Walker’s “Right Wing” Ideology Kills People
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday night accused Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker of supporting an agenda that kills people. “Governor Walker...
Bernie Sanders: Republicans Are One Conservative Supreme Court Justice Away From Gutting Organized Labor
Bernie Sanders used labor’s victory in a deadlocked Supreme Court case to stand with America’s workers and warn that Republicans...
Trump’s and Cruz’s Tax Plans Redistribute Wealth To The Rich
The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and...
The Republican Plan To Destroy The Government And Let Corporations Rule
Republicans love telling us that the private industry can run things better than the government, and that’s why they work...
Mormon Republicans Continue Bundy’s War On Americans’ Public Lands
Nearly two years ago when a Mormon rancher who hates the federal government he had been stealing from for 20...
Trump Supporter Giuliani Reveals Himself To Be A Mussolini-Type Fascist
STEVE DOOCY (HOST): In the wake of the Brussels attack, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both agree that maybe there...
How Walmart Leeches Off Of U.S. Taxpayers
David Pakman gives an examination into how Walmart creates customers by underpaying employees, and leeches off of government welfare programs…...
Paul Krugman: Tax Cuts for Billionaires are GOP’s Number One Priority
Remember Paul Ryan? The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the...
The Chamber of Commerce Elite Continues Its Assault On The Working Class
The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to fight a Seattle ordinance that could extend union protections and benefits to...
The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
If you’re a hardcore libertarian, which program would you be most eager to privatize? The VA, of course, which is...
Sucking-up to the Billionaire Class Not Enough to Save Marco Rubio
In the final days of his presidential campaign, Marco Rubio took on a noble, elegiac tone, presenting himself as the...
Why the Critics of Bernienomics Are Wrong
Not day goes by, it seems, without the mainstream media bashing Bernie Sanders’s economic plan – quoting certain economists as...
Book Exposes Koch Brothers’ Guide to Infiltrating the Media
A new book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer lays out how the oil billionaire Koch brothers rose to the powerful position...
Donald Trump Wants to Give His Rich Cronies Huge Tax Breaks
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to...
Paul Krugman: Clash of Republican Con Artists
So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy...
A Handful of Billionaires Are Trying To Buy The White House
A small group of billionaires is trying very hard to buy the presidency. They want to buy the White House...
How America’s Superrich Are Cutting the Lifespan of the Poor
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
