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...
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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...
Professed Christian Paul Ryan Fires House Chaplain For Praying About GOP Tax Bill
WASHINGTON ― House Chaplain Patrick Conroy was suddenly forced out of his job last week by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.),...
Trump’s Corrupt Consumer Protection Chief Admits He Only Meets With People Who Give Him Money
Mick Mulvaney, the man that Donald Trump personally picked to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, admitted to a room...
GOP Spends Big Money Trying To Sell Corporate Tax Cuts, But Poll Shows Most Americans Aren’t Buying
As right-wing advocacy groups embark on yet another campaign to sell the American public on the GOP’s corporate-friendly tax law...
United States Lags Behind Other Countries in Child Care and Maternity Leave
In most American families led by couples, both parents are in the workforce. At the same time, nearly 1 in 4 U.S. children...
New Jersey Enacts Automatic Voter Registration in Effort to Strengthen Democracy
Joining a promising pro-democracy wave, a signature from Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday added New Jersey to the ranks...
Colorado Communities Sue ExxonMobil & Suncor Oil For Climate Change Costs
A lawsuit filed in Colorado state court by the counties of Boulder and San Miguel and the city of Boulder...
Average American Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the...
Senator Bernie Sanders’ Bill Would Send Big Pharma Execs Behind Opioid Crisis to Jail
While President Donald Trump attempts to place blame for the enduring opioid addiction crisis on immigrants, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)...
Report: Trump businesses corral millions from political and taxpayer spending
Donald Trump’s US businesses have raked in $15.1m in revenue from political groups and federal agencies since he began his...
Death At Trump Tower Comes After Trump Fought Fire Safety Laws And Never Installed Sprinklers
President Donald Trump lobbied not to have sprinklers installed on the residential floors of his New York properties. After one...
Under Republican Tax Law — Richest One Percent Get Extra $33,000 Per Year — The Poor Get $40
In its first analysis of how the GOP tax plan will affect Americans’ personal income taxes alone, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center...
One of the Trump Swamp’s Biggest Swindlers, Scott Pruitt, Under Fire
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting pressure to resign amid ballooning scandals over his spending habits and a...
Saudi Crown Prince Visit to White House Tied to Unresolved 9/11 Questions
In light of President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince Tuesday, it bears remembering that the Saudi royal...
Michigan Schools Save Money With Solar Projects
A Flushing, Michigan, school district will soon be part of a solar project that is forecast to save the community...
Robert Reich: As President’s go, we’ve had our share of crooks, bigots and incompetents, but never all three at once.
America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew...
Corrupt NRA Caught Taking Russian Cash
Responding to an inquiry from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the NRA admitted that they are taking foreign (read: Russian) money,...
Trump’s Erratic Behavior Rekindles Theories About Untreated Neurosyphilis
The cause of Donald Trump’s erratic behavior has been the subject of rampant speculation for years. Some have pointed to the hair-loss drug...
Elizabeth Warren Tells HUD Chief Ben Carson He Should Be Fired For Not Enforcing The Law
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tore into Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday, ripping the former neurosurgeon for...
Jared Kushner Made Millions By Breaking New York Housing Laws
The Associated Press reported that Jared Kushner’s real estate business in New York City was partially built on illegally kicking...
Bernie Sanders’ Economic Inequality Town Hall Attracts 1.7 Million Viewers
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on economic inequality drew about 1.7 million live viewers during an online...
‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon and the White Supremacist Mercer Family Caught Rigging Elections Worldwide
For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the...
Budget Deficit Projected To Go Up 31 Percent Due To Trump Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The United States Treasury Department said Monday that the federal budget deficit in February was significantly higher than a year...
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t.
The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our...
The Rich Guys in Trump’s Cabinet Who Can’t Resist Spending Public Money on Themselves
The revelation that the US housing secretary, Ben Carson, and his wife selected a $31,000 dining set for his office...
Biggest Koch Whore In Congress Is New US Secretary Of State
Of all the congressional representatives who have suckled themselves at the breast of the Koch brothers and their friends, Mike...
Wind and Solar Could Meet 80 Percent of the United States’ Electricity Demand
A new study from US researchers has shown that wind and solar power generation could reliably meet 80% of the...
Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever And People Don’t Want Medicaid Messed With
The surprising success of the 2018 Affordable Care Act enrollments in the face of sabotage by the Trump administration was...
Former Trump Adviser Suspiciously Sells Millions In Steel Stocks Just Before Tariffs Announced
In what could be yet another scandal brewing for the White House – this time one involving insider trading –...
Uber And Lyft Drivers’ Median Hourly Wage Is Just $3.37, Report Finds
Uber and Lyft drivers in the US make a median profit of $3.37 per hour before taxes, according to a...
Businesses Gave Over $500 Million To Jared Kushner’s Company After White House Meetings
Companies that met with Jared Kushner at the White House gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kushner family...
Trump Caves To The NRA Lobby: Backs Away From Age Increase On Owning Assault Weapons
Donald Trump is already caving to the National Rifle Association less than two weeks after a gunman took the lives...
The Many Ways That Trump Is Making America Worse Again: David Cay Johnston
David Cay Johnston is an expert on Donald Trump. The 69-year-old investigative journalist and author has reported on Trump for...
The Right-Wing Billionaires Bankrolling the Effort Destroy America’s Unions
The Economic Policy Institute released a report today detailing the network of conservative mega-donors supporting the Supreme Court case Janus...
Trump’s VA Secretary Steals From Taxpayers
U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin isn’t going to be resigning as he should be. Instead, Viveca Wright Simpson, Shulkin’s...
How the NRA Helped Train the Florida School Shooter
NRA Foundation — the National Rifle Association subsidiary responsible for the group’s school safety initiative — helped fund the marksmanship...
Trump and Putin Share the Same Criminal Network
by Mark Tracy No previous United States president has had anything close to Donald J. Trump’s record of repeated...
U.S. Now The Second Largest Tax Haven
According to the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index, the US ranks as the second largest tax haven on earth, surpassing the...
Trump’s EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Says a Lack of Public ‘Civility’ Forces Him to Take Expensive First Class Flights
Scott Pruitt is back in the big seats. Two days after an exposé in the Washington Post revealed the EPA...
Pentagon Won’t Answer Who Would Pay for Trump’s Expensive Military Parade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday said it was not certain that the Washington-area would host a parade requested...
New York City Plans to Divest $5 Billion from Fossil Fuels and Sue Oil Companies
New York City is seeking to lead the assault on climate change and the Trump administration with a plan to...
Fight For $15 Movement Plans Fast-Food Workers’ Strike Across South
The Fight for $15, the movement that has galvanized city campaigns to raise the pay of low-wage workers, is teaming...
Anti-Science Trump Plans To Gut Renewable Energy Research Funding By 72 Percent
Continuing his disastrous anti-environment crusade, Donald Trump is reportedly proposing to gut funding for renewable energy research programs by a...
