Democrats Take Aim at ‘Trust Fund Babies’ With Estate Tax Designed to Combat Wealth Inequality
California Congressman Jimmy Gomez on Friday introduced legislation in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House that aims to address “our country’s rapidly...
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Government To Borrow One Trillion Dollars To Pay For Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The Treasury Department is being forced to borrow a staggering $1 trillion for the coming fiscal year, after the Republican...
ExxonMobil is still bankrolling climate science deniers
ExxonMobil says it believes “the risk of climate change is real,” and it is “committed to being part of the...
Trump Responds To Impeachment By Trying To Take Away Free School Meals From A Million Kids
The Trump administration is trying to change eligibility requirements so that 1 million kids would lose access to free school...
Swamp Gets Larger: Report Details 281 Lobbyists in Trump Administration Over First Two Years
A new report from ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations, published Tuesday, found that President Donald Trump’s campaign vow to “drain the swamp”...
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Holding Secret Meetings With Conservatives
According to a new report by Politico, and confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg himself, the Facebook CEO has been secretly meeting...
America’s richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class
The U.S. tax system is supposed to be progressive, meaning that wealthier households pay a larger share of their income...
Trump’s Business Holdings in Turkey Sets His Foreign Policy For The Region
Trump Towers in Istanbul is a major part of Trump’s business portfolio. “The Turks are also the top patrons of...
The Trump Administration Wants Restaurant Servers To Do More Work For Less Pay
The Trump administration is trying once again to tweak the rules that govern how tipped workers are paid. This time,...
Healthcare Ad Spending Exceeds $65 Million in 2019 as Insurance Industry Ramps Up Effort to Kill Medicare for All
An Axios analysis released Wednesday found that spending on healthcare advertisements has exceeded $65 million in 2019 as dark money...
Cutting Health Benefits of 1,900 Whole Food Workers Saved World’s Richest Man Jeff Bezos What He Makes in Less Than Six Hours
When billionaire Jeff Bezos cut health benefits on September 13 for part-time workers at his grocery store Whole Foods the...
Off by $1 Trillion — Two-Year Anniversary of Mnuchin Lie That Trump Tax Cuts Would Slash Deficit
“A treasury secretary who can’t count needs to be held accountable.” That was the message progressive advocacy group Americans for...
Trump Breaks The Law Every Time Taxpayer Money Is Spent At One Of His Properties
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained that Trump is not allowed to take any money from the taxpayers beyond his salary,...
UN Warns That Climate Change Is Greatest Threat To Human Rights
According to UN Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet, there is no greater threat to human rights across the globe than climate...
Warren Unveils “Most Sweeping Set of Anti-Corruption Reforms Since Watergate”
Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with...
AFL-CIO Chief: Trump Has Opposed Every Increase in the Minimum Wage
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
Elizabeth Warren Welcomes Wall Street Fear of Her Campaign
Her poll numbers have risen steadily in recent weeks but Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night celebrated a contingent of voters...
Crook Trump: Air Force Planes Diverted to Trump’s Scottish Golf Resort
There have been so many Trump scandals that it seems impossible to keep them straight without a scorecard, but the...
The Corporate Media Owes Al Gore an Apology
I remember when Gore stood before Congress and gaveled in the proceedings that certified his election loss. He was repeatedly...
United Electrical Union Endorses Green New Deal and Global Climate Strike
Embracing the Green New Deal as “our best hope to meet the challenge of climate change while creating millions of...
Budget office reveals ‘King of Debt’ Donald Trump is overseeing a skyrocketing deficit
Hold on to your knickers, folks, that federal deficit is hiking up quickly and “king of debt” Donald Trump wants more,...
Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows
Drug makers and distributors flooded the US with more than 75bn opioid pills in the crucial years when the country’s epidemic...
Shell Oil Made Workers Attend Trump Event By Threatening Not To Pay Them
Shell officials in Beaver County, PA gave workers a choice, they could either attend Trump’s event or not be paid...
Trump’s Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards Could Cost Americans $460 Billion
A new analysis from the nonprofit advocacy group Consumer Reports warns that American drivers could lose about $460 billion dollars in fuel...
Trump Guts Endangered Species Act in Gift to Big Business
Environmentalists denounced the Trump administration for crashing a “bulldozer” through the Endangered Species Act on Monday after the Interior Department...
Former Republican consultant busts party as racists who want tax cuts for the rich
In a furious tweetstorm, a former adviser to the Ohio Republican Party expressed disgust at how far the GOP has...
NRA Gives Mitch McConnell $1.6 Million To Block Expanded Background Checks
If you’re wondering why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to advance a bipartisan bill to expand background checks...
Sanders Calls Out CNN for Airing Pharma Commercials During 2020 Debate
It was “like clockwork.” In the middle of a heated back-and-forth on Medicare for All at the beginning of Tuesday...
Republicans’ Refusal to Expand Medicaid Results in Over 15,000 Deaths
The decision of 14 states not to expand Medicaid under Obamacare cost more than 15,000 lives, according to a new...
Donald Trump’s Big Infrastructure Lie
Bad news about infrastructure is as ubiquitous as potholes. Failures in a 108-year-old railroad bridge and tunnel cost New York commuters thousands...
Robert Reich: It’s Trump And His Oligarch Friends Against Everyone Else
I keep hearing that the Democratic party has moved “left” and that Democratic candidates may be “too far left”. But...
Robert Reich: How Wall Street Enables Racist Trump
It started with Donald Trump’s racist tweets demanding that four Democratic congresswomen – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar...
David Cay Johnston: Here’s how the super rich avoid paying taxes — and what we can do about it
Our investigative series The Koch Papers illustrates many deep problems in America’s creaky, century-old income tax system, especially how our...
‘Eye-popping’ analysis shows top 1% gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while bottom half lost $900 billion
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of...
Big Pharma Has Raised The Prices Of 3,400 Drugs So Far This Year
In the first half of 2019, major pharmaceutical companies have raised the price of 3,400 different medications, with several dozen of...
Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
Ancient air bubbles trapped in ice enable us to step back in time and see what Earth’s atmosphere, and climate,...
Stopping The Koch Brothers’ Agenda In Arizona
You may recall that a few weeks ago, a Koch brothers’ spokeswoman announced that their network is now willing to...
Climate Crisis Will Force 120 Million People Into Poverty
Climate change is making headlines this summer with record temperatures, devastating floods, and climate-related migration. But in the U.S., mainstream...
Uber founder buys $72.5 million mansion as Uber drivers live in their cars
As rideshare drivers across the U.S. and around the world continue to struggle for decent wages, benefits, and the basic right to...
Park Service Directed To Shift $2.5 Million To Help Pay For Trump’s July 4 Celebration To Himself
The National Park Service will divert about $2.5 million in fees gathered from park-goers to help pay for the hefty...
House Republicans Prove Again They Don’t Want You To Have Health Care
Last week, House Republicans were given yet another opportunity to separate themselves from Donald Trump’s lawsuit to destroy the Affordable...
New York City sues Big Oil
New York’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced that the city is suing five fossil fuel companies for damages over...
Trump’s Rust Belt Revival Fraud Is Killing Him In Wisconsin, Michigan, And Pennsylvania
Trump promised a manufacturing revival in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but after losing manufacturing jobs, voters in those states look...
Top one percent gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while bottom half lost $900 billion
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of...
New York Teachers Fight for Divestment From Prison Industry
Teachers in Rochester, New York, recently discovered, to their horror, that their pensions are invested in the private prison and...
Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish
Stephen Smith worked at an AT&T call center in Meriden, Connecticut, for over 20 years before the giant telecoms company...
