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...
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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...
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...
