Tobacco Companies Tighten Hold On Washington Under Trump
Tobacco companies have moved swiftly to strengthen their grip on Washington politics, ramping up lobbying efforts and securing significant regulatory...
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Deluded Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks Says Universal Healthcare Too Expensive, Tax Cuts For Wealthy Are Necessary
Republican Congressman Mo Brooks from Alabama told CNN that enacting a universal healthcare program in the United States is just...
California Governor Jerry Brown Trolls Climate Change Denier Trump At G20
While President Trump was blowing off the G20 session on climate change to spend more than 2 hours chilling with Vlad Putin,...
After Slashing Medicaid, Republicans Take Aim At Food Stamps
After taking a meat ax to Medicaid – a program that more than 70 million American rely on – in...
Fossil Fuel Industry Conspires To Corrupt Elementary School Curriculum
The most sinister force in public education in America’s heartland goes by the rather benign name of the Oklahoma Energy...
Bipartisan Bills Aim to Close Tax Loophole for Rich Sports Owners
In 1986, a tax reform bill included language that would allow bonds to be tax exempt if they were used...
Bernie Sanders: Thousands Of Americans Will Die Because Of ‘Barbaric’ Trumpcare Plan
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare as a “barbaric” plan that means thousands will die...
Obama Blasts Republicans For Stealing People’s Heath Care In Order To Cut Taxes For Rich
In a lengthy post on his Facebook page, former President Obama called for Democrats and Republicans to work together to...
The Trump Family and Its Shadowy Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Organized Crime
The special counsel’s investigation of the White House has come more sharply into focus. Robert Mueller is examining whether President...
The Jobs That Trump Thanked Ford For Saving Are Now Moving To China
President Trump took credit for pushing the auto companies around to force them to keep jobs in the U.S., which...
Sen. Orrin Hatch Plays Dumb and Claims He Hasn’t Seen The Secret GOP Trumpcare Bill
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) doesn’t know what’s in the Senate health care bill he’s going to vote for either, so...
Nevada May Become First State To Offer Medicaid To All
Nevadans will find out this week whether their state will become the first in the country to allow anyone to...
Wall Street Salary And Bonuses Show America’s Rich Are Getting Richer As Inequality Deepens
Wednesday’s big news on Wall Street wasn’t that for yet another year its average wage and bonuses put finance employees...
A Sick First Family: Trump Clan Used a So-Called “Charity” to Line Their Own Pockets
Eric Trump, Donald’s second-eldest son, is one of those who runs the Trump Organization. Until the end of last year,...
Prince Secretly Donated $25 Million To Help Solar Power Startups
It’s been a little over a year since the world lost Prince, but his influence is still strong as ever and...
Republicans Forsake Morality for Money In Climate Accord Exit
Always follow the money. It was never about the coal miners whose jobs are disappearing due to automation and the...
Bernie Sanders Unmasks Trump’s Budget Director as a Fraudster
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
The Fox News Channel: The Epitome of Fake News
Former Fox News contributor Tobin Smith is exposing Fox News as a scam that is designed to manipulate and fool...
White House Admits Trump Lied About Bringing Back Coal Jobs
The White House’s real position on bringing back coal jobs was revealed after Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn made it...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Dark Secret That Trump’s Budget Is Desperately Trying To Hide
During an interview with NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s budget an abomination and exposed the...
Rick Perry’s Early Days As Energy Secretary Have Been A Bonanza For Corporations And The Koch Brothers
Most people who know anything about Rick Perry know he’s a friend to the fossil fuel industry. For 14 years,...
Daily Death Tolls Pushed Up By Big Pharma’s Opioid Epidemic
According to data by the Center for Disease Control, 91 Americans die every day from overdosing on opioids, in the...
Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls & Fakes Science to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk
Internet trolls, paid for by Monsanto, have been scouring the internet to hide the ugly truth about the herbicide Roundup...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Spent Heavily To Put A Climate Change Denier In Charge Of EPA
A new report shows that the Koch Brothers spent part of a $3.1 million fund to help get Scott Pruitt...
Federal Employees Are Being Forced To Watch Fox (Fake) News, Leaked Memo Says
According to a leaked memo from the Trump administration, employees in the White House and throughout government agencies are being...
Warren Buffett Says Trumpcare Is A Big Giveaway To The Richest One Percent
For a guy who stands to keep over half-a-million dollars, Warren Buffett is not too pleased. In a Monday appearance...
Catholics Petition The Senate To Stop Trump From Taking Health Care From Americans
The group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is calling on US Senators to stand up and stop...
Despite What The Corporate Media Professes, Survey Shows Young People Want Progressive Change
A new survey conducted by the Runawayinequality.org Educational Network shows that younger Americans (ages 18-40) overwhelmingly support bold proposals to...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Raise The Minimum Wage
Sen. Bernie Sanders along with House and Senate Democrats introduced a bill today that will give Democrats a powerful rallying...
Rupert Murdoch’s Corporate Legacy: Chronic Sexual Harassment and Rampant Lawbreaking
Bill O’Reilly may be gone at Fox News, but Rupert Murdoch’s festering Fox News mess isn’t going away anytime soon....
Reality Check: Today’s Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal
President Trump has promised to revive the coal industry and double down on fossil fuels, creating “so many energy jobs,”...
Donald Trump Resurrects Trickle Down Economics
Donald Trump loves the 1980s. After all, that was when his celebrity rose in New York, when Trump Tower was...
From Turkey to China, The Self-Serving Trumps Continue to Cash in on Presidency
As always with the Trumps, follow the money. Back in 2012, Ivanka Trump tweeted thanks to Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan…...
Nate Silver Reveals How The Corporate Media Cost Hillary Clinton The Election
The media doesn’t talk about how Hillary Clinton really lost, because it implicates their judgment. Nate Silver pointed out that...
Dow Chemical Gets White House To Ignore Science And Allow Dangerous Pesticide
Dow Chemical gave $1 million to help pay for Donald Trump’s inauguration, and now they’re hoping that the administration will...
9,000 Americans Who Rely On Meals On Wheels Will Go Hungry To Pay For Trump’s Lavish Florida Vacations
The money to cover the cost of President Trump’s vacations to his private resort in Florida has to come from...
Lives Of The Richest One Percent: Hobnobbing With The President For A $200,000 Fee
President Donald Trump spent the weekend with his favorite people: the dues-paying members of his Mar-a-Lago Golf Club, which costs...
Trump Just Cost Americans Saving For Their Retirement $3.7 Billion
Donald Trump talked a big game on the campaign trail about standing up to big corporations and putting the interests...
Trump and His Fossil Fuel Buddies Can’t Make The Clean Energy Economy Disappear
While President Trump’s executive order turning back many Obama-era climate change policies is great optics for his energy policy conservative...
Attempting to Boost His Dismal Poll Numbers, Donald Bombs Syria
In every type of government, nothing unites people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than war. Donald Trump now sees...
Fox News: A Haven for Sexual Predators
CHRIS HAYES (HOST): I want to ask you about something the president said today on the record in the Oval Ooffice about Bill O’Reilly,...
Congressional Candidate Wendy Carrillo Stands Up To Klan Terrorist David Duke
Wendy Carrillo is one of the two dozen candidates in California vying for the opportunity to represent the state’s 34th...
After Trumpcare Failure, Bernie Sanders & Progressives Push Medicare For All Plan
With the plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act dead for the moment, Senator Bernie Sanders is trying...
Senate Republicans Vote To Take Retirement Accounts Away From Low Income Workers
By a 50-49 vote, Senate Republicans have rolled back an Obama-era regulation that allowed states to create retirement accounts for...
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...
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...
