Paul Krugman: The One Percent Attempts to Rewrite History of Financial Crisis
In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to...
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Tyson Foods: Carving Up Workers’ Comp
About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw...
Investigation Reveals That A Few Wealthy Families Are Attempting To Buy American Democracy
According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and...
Bernie Sanders Calls Out The Corporate Media For Blocking His Message
After it had been revealed that Bernie Sanders has gotten 1/30th of the coverage that Donald Trump has received on...
How Rich Corporations Get Away With Murder
Legal activists have long observed that there are two systems of law in America, one for the rich and one...
Robert Reich: How To Punish Disloyal Corporations
Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move...
Evidence That Many Poor People Are Among The Hardest Workers
Many wealthy white conservative males believe they deserve their good fortunes, and that the poor are taking handouts. But on...
8 Ways the One Percent Show Their Warped Values and Desire to Destroy the Public’s Safety Net
The richest Americans increasingly are taking over the levers of power and shaping the political debate, despite opposing views held...
GOP Plans To Rob Taxpayers and Bankrupt America with Bloated Pentagon Spending
Apparently, there are Americans who hate the idea of contributing to the general welfare of the United States, what George...
Major powers pledge $20 billion for green energy research
The US and 18 other countries have pledged to double funds for clean energy research to a total of $20bn...
Drug Giant Pfizer Moves Its Operations to Ireland to Dodge Taxes
Drug giant Pfizer has merged with Irish company Allergan in order to benefit from tax evasion by relocating its headquarters...
House Republicans Accused of Harassing Climate Scientists
Leading scientists have accused a Republican-led committee of subjecting climate researchers to politically motivated “harassment” amid an increasingly fractious investigation...
How Union Buster Walmart Spies On Its Massive Workforce
In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized...
Republican Establishment Frets As ObamaCare’s Popularity Increases In Red States
The red states are the backbone of the Republican Party, but growing evidence suggests that opposition to ObamaCare expansion is...
Bernie Sanders: “People Are Not Truly Free When they are Unable to Feed Their Family”
Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at Georgetown University on Thursday afternoon to address his political stance as a Democratic Socialist. His...
Louisiana Vote Sets Stage to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care
Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn’t even...
Legacy of Failure: 9 of 12 States With Highest Unemployment Are Run By Republican Governors
New state unemployment statistics revealed that the fastest way to sink an economy is to vote for Republican candidates. According...
President Obama Against Effort To Block White-Collar Crime Prosecutions
The White House is not happy about language on corporate crime that the House Judiciary Committee approved on Wednesday as...
Millennials are Revitalizing Organized Labor
Millennials are often made out to be selfish and individualistic, but they appear to be taking a greater interest in...
Congressional Republicans want to make it harder to go after corporate criminals
Not one Wall Street executive was criminally charged following the 2008 global financial collapse, and if the Koch brothers and House...
Bernie Sanders Opposes Nomination of FDA Chief Over Ties to Big Pharma
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday said he would vote against President Barack Obama’s nomination to head up the Food...
CBS Analyst Frank Luntz Received $1.5 Million From The Koch Brothers to Spew Right-Wing Koch Propaganda
A newly-released IRS filing reveals that a central group in Charles and David Koch’s financial network paid CBS News analyst...
Republicans Big Dream: A 1920s Style Government Where the Rich Make All the Rules
Many Americans are unaware of the many programs and policies put in place by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his New...
Robert Reich: The Big Struggle Is the Financial Elite vs. Everyone Else
The standard explanation for why average working people in advanced nations such as Britain and the United States have failed...
Senate Democrats Push For Unionization Of Senate Workers
Thirty-four members of the Senate Democratic caucus including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Al Franken...
Paul Krugman: Republican Candidates’ Espouse Wacko, Ayn Rand-Inspired Economic Doctrine
Crackpot economic theories are now the norm in the Republican party, as we saw in Tuesday’s debate. Huge tax cuts...
Republicans Determined to Deregulate Wall Street Again
On Tuesday night, one Republican presidential hopeful after another lined up to offer coded oaths of fealty to Wall Street...
Billion Dollar Baby Donald Trump Says Wages Are Too High
In case you thought it was a gaffe last night during the debate, asked this morning whether he would support...
Marco Rubio’s Crazy Tax Scheme: An Unprecedented Giveaway to the One Percent
Last week, Citizens for Tax Justice, a liberal think tank that uses mainstream economic tax modeling, analyzed Marco Rubio’s tax-cut...
Hillary Clinton addresses Fight for 15 protesters: “Your advocacy is changing our country for the better.”
Fast-food strikers got a boost to their campaign on Tuesday morning, when Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton personally tweeted out...
TPP: The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries...
How Unions Fight Inequality and Strengthen Democracy
A new study from the International Monetary Fund concludes that unions reduce inequality and foster a healthier economy for everyone,...
Sanders: Republicans Are Un-American Cowards For Trying To Suppress The Vote
At the First in the South Presidential Candidates Forum with Rachel Maddow in South Carolina, Bernie Sanders blasted Republicans as...
Jeb Bush’s Tax Plan Treats the Top 1% to an Average Tax Cut of Nearly $180,000
A Citizens for Tax Justice analysis of Jeb Bush’s tax plan reveals that it would cut taxes by $7.1 trillion[i]...
Pentagon gave sports franchises taxpayer money to promote military
The best kind of patriotism is the compulsory kind. And the best kind of compulsory patriotism is that most American...
For Exxon Mobil, Profit Is More Important Than Life Itself
It may be hard to accept, but a single company may have set back all of humanity. Had Exxon Mobil...
Hillary Clinton Calls for Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $12 Per Hour
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at two campaign stops in Iowa that she would like to...
How Marco Rubio became the plutocrats’ favorite candidate
The Sunday shows yesterday featured pretty much nothing but Republicans rehashing their debate and celebrating the ascension of Paul Ryan...
Montana Becomes 30th State To Expand Medicaid Under ObamaCare
The Obama administration gave final approval to Montana’s Medicaid expansion plan, making the Big Sky State the 30th U.S. state...
Reckless House Republicans Try To Slip Bank Deregulation Into Highway Bill
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are angling to slip two pieces of bank deregulation into a major highway funding bill that...
Republican Scott Walker Signs Bill to Prohibit Investigations Into Bribery and Political Corruption
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed a bill on Friday that’s designed to prohibit certain investigations into bribery and political...
Vile Koch Brothers Spend Millions To Eliminate Solar Power in Sunny Florida
With the nickname “The Sunshine State,” it would make sense for Florida to be a leader in solar energy in...
