Pope Francis Says Money Dominates Politics
Pope Francis had strong words for world leaders’ priorities, including United States president-elect Donald Trump last week. During a speech...
Pope Francis had strong words for world leaders’ priorities, including United States president-elect Donald Trump last week. During a speech...
The Tax Foundation, a conservative D.C. think tank created to argue for lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations, found that...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged Monday night about taking advantage of the housing market crash, an architect he once...
Paul Ryan (WI), Republican Speaker of the House, has lately fashioned himself as a crusader for the poor, apologizing for...
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump touted a retooled economic plan on Thursday, promising to provide middle-class tax cuts and eliminate perks...
A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling US Forward made its public debut at the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, where the organization’s President and CEO Charles Drevna gave...
RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Before becoming Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway ran a Super PAC she ran one of the...
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
By now, it’s obvious to everyone with open eyes that Donald Trump is an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying...
“It’s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father...
The Koch Brothers might not be throwing their money behind Donald Trump, but they are certainly still spending a lot...
It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and...
In the primaries – Donald Trump ran as a “really really rich” candidate who wasn’t beholden to America’s billionaire class....
Earlier this year, a group of right-wing extremists, led by the infamous Bundy family of Nevada, took over the Malheur National...
Mark Davis, owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, has promised to relocate his team to southern Nevada if the state...
In his Friday New York Times column, Paul Krugman argued that, when it comes down to it, the real reason...
Trump desperately needs to get his tiny hands on some cash to fund his presidential campaign. On TV, Trump may...
WASHINGTON — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top 1...
Most Americans comprehend what it means to be cruel, sadistic, and diabolical because they’ve witnessed Republicans exhibit those qualities in...
Editor’s Note: While this isn’t explicitly stated below, Trump has mentioned before an intention to all but wipe out the “Department...
Donald Trump is not one to shy away from lawsuits. Any prominent figure – from politicians to comedians to journalists...
Charles Koch is known for being CEO of industrial giant Koch Industries and a chief financier of the massive conservative...
lizabeth Warren unloaded on Donald Trump in a speech on Tuesday night, calling him a “money-grubber”, a tool of the...
The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid...
The Koch brothers are no fans of Donald Trump, but there has been no bigger defender of their dark money...
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) dropped some hints about what the Republican alternative to Obamacare will look like,...
The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and...
Republicans love telling us that the private industry can run things better than the government, and that’s why they work...
Remember Paul Ryan? The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the...
The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to fight a Seattle ordinance that could extend union protections and benefits to...
If you’re a hardcore libertarian, which program would you be most eager to privatize? The VA, of course, which is...
A new book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer lays out how the oil billionaire Koch brothers rose to the powerful position...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to...
A small group of billionaires is trying very hard to buy the presidency. They want to buy the White House...
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
It’s very odd, as a resident of Las Vegas, to see Steve Wynn making nice to Donald J. Trump of...
How much damage can two individuals do? If those two people are the Koch Brothers (pronounced “coke”) the answer is,...
For decades, the Koch Brothers have funded a massive propaganda operation to disparage what democracy can do when a society...
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the amount of discontent apparently felt by other Americans these days… Read more…
Every time you think that our political discourse can’t get any worse, it does. The Republican primary fight has devolved...
There’s plenty of evidence to support the work ethic of poor people. —–Almost 63 percent of America’s work-eligible poor are...
Like many establishment Republicans, the conservative columnist for The New York Times sees the barbarians pouring through the gates and fears...
How can there be 400 billionaires so self-absorbed in their fortunes and greed that they cannot see the sea of...
In January 2015, at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., the political network led by conservative billionaires Charles and...
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it’s a conclusion from...
The hedge fund magnates Daniel S. Loeb, Louis Moore Bacon and Steven A. Cohen have much in common. They have...