Community Solar Project to Retrain Underemployed and Unemployed Coal Miners
San Diego-based Solar Alliance Energy plans to build a 500 kW community solar generation and battery storage project in Southern...
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Clinton Proposes Raising Taxes on U.S. Billionaire Estates
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed raising taxes on inherited property to 65 percent for the largest...
Trump Brags About Ripping Off Workers, Profiting from the Housing Crisis and Gaming the System
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged Monday night about taking advantage of the housing market crash, an architect he once...
Donald Trump Busted for Using Charity Money to Settle His Lawsuits
The Washington Post has revealed that Donald Trump used more than $250,000 from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits against...
Republican Leader Paul Ryan’s Tax Plan is a Massive Handout to the Richest One Percent
Paul Ryan (WI), Republican Speaker of the House, has lately fashioned himself as a crusader for the poor, apologizing for...
Political Thug Chris Christie Knew About Bridge Lane Closings as They Happened, Prosecutors Say
NEWARK — Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey knew that three of his top officials were involved in a plan...
Lust for Profits Behind Opioid Epidemic
Opioid addiction rates have skyrocketed over the past two decades, costing millions in health insurance costs and lost productivity in...
California Governor Calls Out Big Pharma On Price Gouging
On Friday, California governor Jerry Brown signed off on a new state law that would allow businesses such as restaurants...
Studies Show Trump’s Economic Plan Would Rig the Tax System Even More in Favor of the Richest One Percent
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump touted a retooled economic plan on Thursday, promising to provide middle-class tax cuts and eliminate perks...
Elizabeth Warren: Executives At Wells Fargo Who Scammed Customers Should Return Money
In the wake of the fraud scandal at Wells Fargo, Senator Elizabeth Warren has joined with a group of senators...
Republican Candidate Donald Trump Bought A 6-Foot-Tall Portrait Of Himself With Charity Money
In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity — the Donald J. Trump Foundation — to buy...
Middle Class Americans Just Got a Huge Income Boost
It looks like Americans finally got a raise. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday released its annual report on income,...
Oil Industry Unleashes Attack Dogs and Pepper Spray on Native American Protestors
For the second time in as many weeks, Americans are learning that their 1st Amendment right to free expression, including...
Koch-Republicans Hope the National Park Service’s 100th Anniversary Will Be Its Last
In normal circumstances when an anniversary arrives the farthest thing from anyone’s mind is that it may be the last,...
Fox Pays Gretchen Carlson $20 Million as Restitution for the Sins of Sexual Predator Roger Ailes, Former CEO of Fox News
It has been exactly two months since Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, sued her old boss, Roger Ailes,...
Shady Dealings at the Trump Foundation Lead to IRS Penalty
Donald Trump paid a $2,500 IRS penalty, the Washington Post reports, over that $25,000 contribution his charitable foundation made to Florida Attorney General...
For Republicans It’s “Anti-Labor Day”
Any human being who has ever ran a business, unless it is completely “owner-operated,” comprehends that without a labor force,...
Drugs And The Corporate Elite: The Case Of The EpiPen
Cash and carry has become nothing more than standard operating procedure in politics and government, and it’s wrecking the republic....
Right-Wing Corporate Media Ignores The Fact That Obama is Officially America’s Greatest Job Creator President
Guess who gets no credit for record setting job growth that is hardly a one-off since it’s going on for...
Donald Trump’s Energy Proposals Cater to Fossil Fuel Billionaires at the Expense of Humanity
Donald Trump told the Detroit Economic Conference this week that he will propose “a complete rethinking of our energy policy.” What...
New Koch-Funded Group Aims to Promote the “Positives” of Dirty Fuels
A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling US Forward made its public debut at the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, where the organization’s President and CEO Charles Drevna gave...
Conspiracy Kooks Breitbart and Donald Trump Funded By Right-Wing Hedge Fund Billionaire Robert Mercer
RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Before becoming Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway ran a Super PAC she ran one of the...
ExxonMobil Pays Lip Service To Environmentalism While Contributing To Republicans Who Block All Efforts To Combat Climate Change
Over the course of the past couple of years some of the giants in the oil industry have intimated that...
Fake Populist Donald Trump Doesn’t Stand Up For Workers
Conservative lawmakers have been pushing to pass a federal piece of legislation entitled the National Right to Work act which...
As The World Burns, The Rich Cruise In Luxury Through A Melting Arctic
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
Richest One Percent Willing to Swallow Trump’s Lunacy to Get Their Tax Cuts
By now, it’s obvious to everyone with open eyes that Donald Trump is an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying...
The Ultimate Crony Capitalist: How Donald Trump Profited from Public Subsidies & Political Favors
“It’s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father...
The Oil Industry Wrote The Book On How To Burn Up the Planet
A new discovery into the true corruption of the oil industry and it’s relationship to Big Tobacco is sending shockwaves...
Trump Admits That He Will Lose The Election If He Releases His Tax Returns
Donald Trump admitted in a new interview that if he releases his tax returns, he will lose the election… Read...
The Koch Brothers Are Meddling In Your State Elections
The Koch Brothers might not be throwing their money behind Donald Trump, but they are certainly still spending a lot...
Trump’s trickle-down ticket: Donald Trump’s VP pick signals a commitment to slashing taxes for millionaires and cutting services for everyone else.
It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and...
Scott Walker Defeated As Federal Judge Strikes Down Parts of Wisconsin Voter Suppression Laws
(Reuters) – A federal judge has struck down a string of Wisconsin voting restrictions passed by the Republican-led legislature and...
Report Shows Tax-Dodging by Utility Companies Worth Billions
Utilities companies pay the lowest effective tax rate of any U.S. business sector, and in 2015 this tax-dodging added up...
George Will: Trump Won’t Release Tax Returns ‘Deeply Involved With Russian Oligarchs’
After the DNC hacked emails made its way to Wikileaks there have been many security experts who have said it...
The Billionaire Koch Bros’ Fingerprints Were All Over the GOP Convention
In the primaries – Donald Trump ran as a “really really rich” candidate who wasn’t beholden to America’s billionaire class....
President Obama Announces Solar-Boosting Initiative
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a series of measures aimed at boosting access to solar energy—a move one environmental...
Maddow: Trump’s Speech Could Be ‘Gateway Drug’ for KKK Becoming Mainstream in GOP
After her MSNBC colleagues determined that Donald Trump’s convention speech Thursday night was a message derived from talk radio to...
Tennessee Thumbs Nose At Reactionary Koch Bros, Hosts Cutting-Edge Solar Energy Storage Demo
The great state of Tennessee is on the cutting edge of new energy storage tech, thanks partly to its role...
Trump University Taught Students How to Exploit Disabled Homeowners
Trump University, the former for-profit business education venture that has landed Donald Trump in various courts to defend himself against...
Latest Republican Scheme: Convert Federal Public Land to State Land, Where It Can Be Sold To Billionaires
Earlier this year, a group of right-wing extremists, led by the infamous Bundy family of Nevada, took over the Malheur National...
Right-Wing Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Wants Taxpayers to Finance His New Stadium
Mark Davis, owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, has promised to relocate his team to southern Nevada if the state...
Trump’s Vegas Hotel Spent Half A Million Dollars To Stop Maids From Unionizing
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump fashions himself a friend of union workers. He has bragged about having good relationships with...
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...
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...
