Alt-Right Fox News Focuses On Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes More Than Climate Report
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday criticized Fox News for not dedicating enough time to the gloomy new climate change report the Trump...
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Fossil Fuel Companies Kill With Impunity. Why Are Their Leaders Not In Jail?
Over the course of 2018, I have started emphasizing how the extraction and sale of fossil fuels is like a...
Analysis: The Doom Of Fossil Fuel Investments
There is a very short window of time to get out of pure-play oil & gas company investments without substantial...
Audit Shows that a Corrupt Pentagon Can’t Explain Where $800 Million of Taxpayer Money Went
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Politico’s Bryan Bender about a story he broke earlier this week on troubling results...
David Cay Johnston on Tax Cheating: It’s Not Just The Trumps
In radio shows and talks from London to Boston to Richmond, Ind., people keep asking me how the Trump family got...
Major Victory for a Million Workers: Minimum Wage Increases Pass in Arkansas and Missouri
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
Some Good News For The Planet: Ozone Layer Coming Back
As it turns out, the impact of human activity on the planet and the environment can work both ways. This...
Trump’s acting attorney general involved in outfit that scammed veterans out of life savings
Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their...
Three states just voted to expand Medicaid and give more than 300,000 people health care
Residents in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday, granting health coverage...
Gov. Scott Walker, who rose to prominence attacking teachers unions, unseated by a former teacher
Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin’s state superintendent of public education and a former teacher, won the governor’s race against incumbent Scott...
Human Rights Group Calls For Investigation Of Giuliani, Trump Money-Laundering
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is now reporting that an international human rights organization has requested that prosecutors in The Netherlands open...
Cleantech Creates Far More US Jobs Than Dirty Energy Does
There’s a wildly incorrect claim that Republicans are more “pro-job” or “pro-economy” than Democrats. That’s absolutely not true… Read more…
Trump Sued for Scamming Struggling Investors Through Endorsement Deals
In 2014, a financially struggling hospice caregiver in California decided to invest in a video phone marketing company by the...
CEO Pleads Guilty To Fraud After Dispensing Millions of Opioid Painkillers
A wealthy CEO might actually be heading to prison – a rare occurrence in America today. Mashiyat Rashid, the CEO of...
Tobacco Companies Spending Millions To Defeat Healthcare Expansion In Midterms
Tobacco companies are pouring millions of dollars into the midterms this year, trying to fight off tax increases on their deadly products...
Three Easy Fixes to Social Security and Medicare that Republicans Won’t Acknowledge
Republicans would love to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. But they can’t, because Social Security and Medicare are...
Trump Admits Climate Change Is Not A Hoax, Doesn’t Plan To Do Anything About It Anyway
On 60 Minutes last Sunday, putative president Donald Trump backed away from his famous assertion that climate change was a hoax invented...
Salesforce CEO: Tech Billionaires ‘Hoard Their Money’ And Won’t Help Homeless
Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, has escalated his attacks on fellow San Francisco billionaires, saying they are “hoarding” money and don’t want...
The Trump Family’s Pump and Dump Scam
A massive new investigation by Pro Publica reveals President Donald Trump and his children engage in systematic deceit to lure investors to its...
National TV News Stations Drop the Ball on GOP Georgia Voter Suppression
Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is blocking the voter registrations of tens of thousands of...
Climate Change: Warm October Ocean Water Was Fuel for Hurricane Michael’s Devastation
Sometimes connecting climate change to a specific weather event is difficult. With Hurricane Michael, it’s not. The science is easy: Earth’s waters...
Senator Bernie Sanders: Trump ‘Lying About Medicare for All’
In reaction to President Donald Trump’s op-ed on Wednesday—titled, “Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan will demolish promises to seniors“—Sen. Bernie...
More Republicans Get Caught Lying On Climate Change
Climate change deniers aren’t crazy… they’re lying. John Iadarola takes on Senator Marco Rubio and other right-wingers on climate change… Read more…
NY Times Unmasks Donald Trump: Built Empire on Father’s Money, Tax Dodging and Fraud
President Donald Trump built his personal brand and presidential candidacy on the claim that he was a self-made billionaire whose...
Senator Bernie Sanders Congratulates Jeff Bezos For Taking His Advice
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) congratulated Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday for announcing he would raise wages to $15 per...
Corrupt Trump Sued For Illegally Taking Gifts From Foreign Governments
On Friday evening, just as he was dealing with a setback to his Supreme Court nomination, President Donald Trump got a fresh...
Why We Need to See Trump’s Tax Returns
Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went frombeing dubbed...
By Gutting Methane Restrictions Trump Continues His Assault on the Environment
Continuing its relentless “assault on clean air, public lands, our health, and our climate,” the Trump administration on Tuesday gutted a major Obama-era...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Proposal to Go After Washington DC’s Culture of Corruption
We are in the midst of a corruption crisis. In the past few weeks alone, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney,...
Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Reaches $6.24 Trillion
The fossil fuel divestment movement which has so influenced the global economic and energy sectors over the past five years...
US Energy Efficiency Industry Employs Over Two Million People
The US energy efficiency industry added more new jobs than any other industry in the country’s entire energy sector in...
The Trump Archives: A Trail of Money Laundering
Donald Trump has a long history of doing what he thinks is best for Donald Trump. If he needs to...
Trump Gang Shifted Money from FEMA to ICE Ahead of Hurricane Season
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported Tuesday night that President Donald Trump’s administration took nearly $10 million funds from FEMA’s budget and...
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...
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...
