GOP Governor Sam Brownback Denies Medicaid to Kansas Residents
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) rejected legislation on Thursday that would have used funding from the Affordable Care Act to...
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Trump Enriches Fossil Fuel Polluters
At this juncture in Trump’s America, it might be a chore to find an American who isn’t aware that the...
Americans Rejoice as Trumpcare Con Collapses
Well, the health care vote was canceled. Again. Just two and a half weeks after it was introduced, the American...
The Trump Budget: Putting America’s Richest 1% First
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez ripped President Trump’s first federal budget outline Thursday, saying it favors the wealthy...
The Paul Ryan Approach: Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Losing Your Health Insurance
See what you make of this, and it comes in two parts: First, the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report...
Donald Trump Loses All Credibility Over Jobs Report
Press Secretary Sean Spicer quoted President Trump regarding the February jobs report, saying it “they may have been phony in...
Tucker Carlson Just Now Realizing Republicans Hate Poor People
Paul Ryan seems kind of surprised Tucker didn’t get the memo… Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it...
Solar Spring Break 2017 Offers Hands-On Training While Installing In Under-Served Communities
Spring break is coming! Spring break is coming! But instead of going to the beach, or the mountains, or wherever...
Trumpcare to Take Away Healthcare from Millions
The White House doesn’t want the American people to call the Republican Obamacare replacement that is going to take health...
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds St. Louis’ $11 Minimum Wage
The Missouri Supreme Court gave low-wage workers in St. Louis a raise on Tuesday. The five-judge panel issued a ruling...
Trump to Gut the EPA in Order to Give More Money to a Wasteful Pentagon
In order to fund an unnecessary $54 billion increase in U.S. defense spending, Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to...
Draft-Dodger Trump Does Photo-Op On Aircraft Carrier
He has been attempting to sound more presidential. Now he wants to look like a commander-in-chief, too. Donald Trump donned...
New Exxon CEO Echoes Rex Tillerson’s Self-Serving Disinformation On Climate Science
Darren Woods, the new chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp., mirrored his predecessor’s skeptical view on climate change in his...
Ivanka Trump Is Pushing Congress To Pass A $500 Billion Gift To Rich People With Nannies
The Trump family is showing that they have no understanding of the lives of regular people, as President Trump’s daughter...
EPA’s Mission Subverted By Trump Choice Scott Pruitt
The US Environmental Protection Agency has almost immediately been castrated and had any legitimacy it once had undermined after Scott...
Donald Trump Ordered To Pay $5.77 Million To Golf Club Members He Stiffed
A Florida golf course owned by President Donald Trump has been ordered to immediately pay $5.77 million to former members...
Trump’s Florida Vacations Have Cost Taxpayers Almost As Much In A Month As Obama Spent In A Year
President Trump’s weekend vacations to his private club in Florida have cost taxpayers almost as much in a month ($11.3...
Big Oil Gets Its Man As EPA Chief
The Senate narrowly confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency chief on Friday, despite Democrats’ calls to delay the...
Olbermann: Trump’s reckless handling of intelligence would have gotten Hillary ‘impeached before sunrise’
Reaching back to the not-so-distant past, when conservatives had a meltdown over Hillary Clinton’s private email servers, commentator Keith Olbermann...
Trump Shows His Contempt for the Working Class by Nominating Puzder
If Donald Trump truly cared about working Americans, as he claimed during his campaign, he never would have nominated a...
Sen. Chris Murphy Seeks Trump Tax Returns to Explain ‘Bizarre Positioning’ on Russia
Looking for an “alternative explanation” for Trump’s “bizarre positioning” on Russia, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said this morning on MSNBC...
Seattle Refuses To Do Business With Wells Fargo In Dakota Access Protest
On February 7th, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to stop doing business with Wells Fargo Bank because it has...
Klan Sympathizer Jeff Sessions’ Record On Voting Rights Back In Spotlight After Senate Rules Scuffle
A procedural scuffle between Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) brought back to the forefront accusations...
Bernie Sanders Exposes Trump As A Fraud Who Lied To Voters
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump a fraud, and he pointed out the ways that Trump has lied to the...
Trump’s Executive Order Gift to His Wall Street Cronies
WASHINGTON ― One of the Donald Trump administration’s first orders of business on the economy will scuttle a rule protecting...
Solar & Wind Jobs Growing 12x Faster Than US Economy But Crazy Donald Wants To Kill Them
Would you rather be a coal miner or a solar power technician? Bad news if you answered (correctly) that life...
Trump Proposes an Energy Plan That Puts Americans Last
The new boss waited about 1.2 nanoseconds before announcing his America First Energy Plan. Environmental groups weighed in a heartbeat...
Repealing Obamacare Could Kill 43,000 People Per Year
Republicans seem hellbent on repealing The Affordable Care Act, and a new study shows that doing so without a comparable...
Trump’s First Presidential Act Is To Raise Mortgage Rates On Struggling Homeowners
One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president was to hurt struggling homeowners by signing an executive order that reversed...
Progressive Bernie Sanders Feels Honored by How Much the Billionaire Class Hates Him
Senator Bernie Sanders has more than a few things to be proud of: he led a massive, populist political movement...
Savage Republicans Vote To Strip Healthcare From 6 Vulnerable Groups
It is amazing that in America, the richest nation in mankind’s history, there are laws against cruelty to animals but...
Corporate Elite Fights To Repeal Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes
Areas all over the country approved minimum wage hikes during this year’s elections, and corporations are not happy about it....
Klan Sympathizer Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Nominee for Attorney General, Confronted at Confirmation Hearing
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and his supporters sought on Tuesday to convince the American public that he won’t...
Trump’s Approval Rating of 37% is a Historic Low Days Before Inauguration
America is not giving Donald Trump a warm welcome to the White House as a new poll found that Trump’s...
Corrupt Banks Sell Low-Income Housing Tainted With Lead Paint
It appears that there is no end to how far the 1% will go to screw over everyone else in...
ExxonMobil Sends Its Boss Tillerson Off To D.C. With $180M Golden Parachute to Hustle for Big Oil
ExxonMobil has agreed to provide an investment package worth about $180 million to its outgoing chief executive, Rex Tillerson, letting...
Trump-Supporting Coal Miners Now Afraid He’ll Take Away Their Healthcare
Be careful what you wish for. That’s the message that coal workers in the United States should have listened to...
Climate deniers, conspiracists and one-percenters: Trump’s cabinet of characters
Barack Obama’s original cabinet was chockablock with historic firsts. The first African American attorney general. The first Nobel laureate upon...
Israel’s Welfare Dependency Grows: Largest Recipient of U.S. Foreign Aid
Israel now receives $3.2 billion in direct foreign assistance, courtesy of American taxpayers each year. This is about one-fifth of...
Platinum Hedge Fund Executives Charged With $1 Billion Fraud
For years, the little-known New York hedge fund Platinum Partners stood out for double-digit investment returns that rivaled some of...
Just in Time for Christmas, Commander-in-Hack Donald Trump Calls for More Nukes
Donald Trump apparently has been hitting the pipe again. On December 22, he tweeted: “The United States must greatly strengthen...
George W. Bush: Asleep At The Wheel Before The 9/11 Attacks
On August 6, 2001, George W. Bush was on a month-long vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. That morning,...
Pope Francis Says Money Dominates Politics
Pope Francis had strong words for world leaders’ priorities, including United States president-elect Donald Trump last week. During a speech...
Pipeline 150 Miles from Standing Rock Spews More Than 176,000 Gallons of Oil Into Water Supply
Echoing the same dangers that water protectors warned about the Dakota Access Pipeline, another pipeline in the Western part of...
Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick Is Declaration Of War On America’s Workers
Donald Trump’s pick as Labor Secretary telegraphs his plan to use the Executive Branch of the government to declare war...
Pentagon Caught Wasting $125 Billion in Taxpayer Money
As of January 2015, the Pentagon had wasted roughly $125 billion. At least this is what The Washington Post claims...
