California’s Gov. Brown Signs 100% Renewables by 2045 Into Law
Climate groups are praising the work of local organizers after California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday legislation committing the state to 100 percent clean electricity...
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Billionaires vs. Teachers: The Koch Brothers’ Plan to Starve Public Education
Arizona has become the hotbed for an experiment rightwing activists hope will redefine America’s schools – an experiment that has...
ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Deniers
A decade after pledging to end its support for climate science deniers, ExxonMobil gave $1.5 million last year to 11...
Trump’s Lawyer Warned His Lies Could End Up Putting Him in an ‘Orange Jump Suit’
Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” includes an astonishing alleged quote from John Dowd, a former...
Vote Against Teacher Pay Comes Back to Bite Six More Oklahoma Republicans
Six more Oklahoma state House Republicans lost their primary run-offs on Tuesday after having voted against raising taxes to give teachers their...
Trump Sacrifices Government Employees’ Raises To Billionaires’ Tax Cut
The White House announced Thursday that they would be canceling scheduled pay increases for government employees, citing budget concerns. In a...
The Tax-Cut Con Goes On: Paul Krugman
What will happen if the blue wave in the midterm elections falls short? Clearly, at this point it still might: Democrats...
Trump’s History of Laundering Russian Mafia Money Through His Properties
Author Craig Unger has been following Donald Trump’s dealings in Russia since his 1987 visit–at the behest of the Russian...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Give Tucker Carlson’s ‘Daily Caller’ Cash to Spew Right Wing Propaganda
Tucker Carlson, FOX News’ new prime-time anchor, received a six-figure sum from the Donald Trump campaign for president through his...
Russian Mob ‘Made its Move’ on Trump After a String of Trump Bankruptcies: Documentary Filmmaker
A documentary filmmaker appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday to talk about what he’s found while researching “Active Measures,”...
Trump’s tax plan con exposed: Corporate tax revenue at 75-year low
The Trump White House got something wrong. It would be more surprising if it got something right. Do you remember...
Trump’s DOJ Has Almost Completely Stopped Prosecuting White Collar Criminals
White collar criminal prosecutions and fines are not just plummeting under the Trump administration – they appear to be disappearing...
9,800 New Solar Systems Installed By GRID Alternatives In California
The solar power nonprofit GRID Alternatives recently celebrated reaching the mark of 9,800 California solar power systems installed for low-income...
Trump Investigator David Cay Johnston Warns that Russia Has ‘More Than 30 Years’ of Blackmail Material on the President
Pulitzer-winning journalist David Cay Johnston said Tuesday on CNN that President Donald Trump is compromised by more than 30 years...
For the conniving Donald Trump, ‘Made in America’ is not important with Trump-branded products
Donald Trump hosted an event at the White House yesterday in celebration of American-made products, and as is too often...
Corrupt NRA And Russians Have Been Colluding For Years
News Flash. Russian citizens do not have gun rights. They never had gun rights. They don’t need protection from anyone...
New ‘Medicare for All’ House Caucus Formed to Promote Single Payer Healthcare
A large group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives established a new “Medicare for All” caucus on Thursday morning. This...
Big Oil Is Peddling Misinformation About Electric Cars
Christine Todd Whitman served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President George W. Bush back in 2001–2003. With experience...
Disgraced Scott Pruitt To Be Replaced At The EPA By The Even More Appalling Andrew Wheeler
Following the resignation of Scott Pruitt, the embattled former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), President Donald Trump announced that the...
Good News: Less Coal Burned Leads to Decline in Mercury Contamination in Tuna
Levels of highly toxic mercury contamination in Atlantic bluefin tuna are rapidly declining, according to a new study. That trend does...
New Opportunities for California’s Low-Income Households to Go Solar
Solar industry, renewable energy and environmental justice organizations and advocates applauded a decision today by the California Public Utilities Commission...
Wells Fargo Ordered To Pay $97 Million For Violating Labor Laws
Wells Fargo was ordered to pay California employees $97 million for violating the state’s labor laws. Judge Percy Anderson handed...
Trump’s Environmental Policies Will Cost 80,000 American Lives And More That A Million Sick Kids
A letter released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association gives a preliminary accounting of Donald Trump’s environmental...
Entire Trump Family Named In Massive Charity Fraud Lawsuit
The entire Trump family has been named in a lawsuit regarding charitable fraud by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
Pope Francis, Bill McKibben, & Poor People’s Campaign Address Climate Change
Writing in The Guardian this week, climate activist Bill McKibben suggests the world may miss its last realistic opportunity to...
Court Orders Maine’s Alt-Right Governor to Expand Medicaid
On Monday, a state judge ordered the Maine Department of Health and Gov. Paul LePage (R) to follow through on a...
North Carolina’s Public Employees Seek Raise Pointing to Last Year’s Success Raising State Minimum Wage
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
Young People Are Leading a Growing Movement Against Low Pay
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
UN Report: Inequality in the United States Reaching Dangerous Levels Due to Trump’s Polices
Donald Trump is deliberately forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections...
Corrupt EPA chief Scott Pruitt collaborated with climate change denial group, emails show
Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to...
Scott Pruitt doing the bidding of powerful lobbyists with EPA chemical safety rollback
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to roll back an Obama-era rule meant to reduce the risks of chemical disasters...
Study Finds That Average CEO-To-Worker Pay Gap Has Now Reached 339 to 1
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that...
Scott Pruitt Caught Lying Again About His 24/7, 20-Man Security Team
The request for Scott Pruitt’s extraordinary level of security didn’t come from the inspector general, and wasn’t the result of...
Climate Science-Denying Trump Eliminates Carbon Monitoring System from NASA
Wise leaders facing a crisis want to suss out every bit of solid information they can about the parameters of...
Senate Report Finds Russia Used the Corrupt NRA to Help Elect Trump
The Senate Judiciary Committee released hundreds of transcripts and details from its investigation into the infamous June 2016 meeting at...
Adam Schiff Says Trump Broke The Law With $500 Million Illegal Chinese Kickback
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump committed a certain Emoluments Clause...
The Poor People’s campaign kicked off 40 days of nonviolent protest, reviving King’s anti-poverty efforts
Hundreds of low-wage workers, faith leaders, civil rights organizers and liberal activists were arrested in demonstrations in Washington and in...
Slumlord Sean Hannity Makes Money By Threatening To Evict Poor People
An analysis of Sean Hannity’s real estate holdings found that he used evictions and eviction threats against poor to generate...
Trump’s Drug Pricing Scam
Trump promised to rein in drug prices. It was his only sensible campaign promise. But the plan he announced Friday...
AT&T Paid Trump Fixer Michael Cohen For Advice On Its Proposed $85 Billion Merger With Time Warner
AT&T paid Trump fixer Michael Cohen $600,000 for advice on its multibillion-dollar proposed merger with Time Warner, the Washington Post...
Trump’s Billionaire Friend Carl Icahn Receives EPA Waiver Worth Tens of Millions
After reporting a net income of $234.4 million last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn—a former regulatory adviser to President Donald...
Vowing to End Corporate Bullying of Workers, Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Restore Union Power
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
American Traitor Oliver North Will Become the New NRA President
Oliver North, for you youthful types, was a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, a Reagan administration scheme to smuggle...
Alt-Right Maine Governor Paul LePage Sued Over Denying Medicaid
Maine is a very interesting state, politically. On the one hand they have perhaps the most right-wing governor in the...
HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s New Plan to Punish Poor People
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is proposing to increase rent for millions of low-income tenants in government-subsidized housing and impose stricter...
Republican Report May Provide Proof of Trump Treason
When Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a report on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, we learned more information...
