The IRS Is Investigating The Koch Brothers’ Illegal Tax-Deductions Denying Climate Change
There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives...
There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives...
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, published an essay in the most recent American Prospect in which...
It has been just about a year since Charles Koch wrote a ‘woe is me’ op-ed to combat the bad...
The Koch’s didn’t say why Jeb Bush isn’t their “chosen one,” but odds are that it is because Bush doesn’t...
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to give a tax break worth $269 billion to the richest few thousand estates...
‘When did you last get a job from a poor person?’ So goes my favorite Tea Party slogan. The Americans...
Despite the ever-widening income gap in America with the poor and middle class losing wealth to the richest Americans in...
Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The industrial conglomerate run by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is refusing to provide Democratic...
All our lives, we have been told that free markets are synonymous with free societies. That neoliberal capitalism is consistent...
A map released by the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization (IFG) shows that the U.S. billionaire Koch brothers own...
Charles and David Koch plan to spend as much as one billion in 2016 in an attempt to capture the...
The U. S. government denied bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver a visa last week, reported Coin Desk. Ver renounced his American...
Republicans have accused President Obama of waging class warfare for using his State of the Union to push for an...
By next year, the richest one percent will have accumulated more than half of the world’s wealth. A new report...
Former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich produced a short “2014 Year in Review” video in which he reminded...
Towards the end of 2014, Americans averted yet another government shutdown. Congress passed, and Obama signed, a 1.1 trillion dollar...
In its latest listing of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine for the first time ranks the members of the top...
For the Koch brothers’ donor network, the 2012 elections were a keen disappointment. Not only did they lose what Charles...
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
As the Internal Revenue Service contemplates new rules to illuminate “dark money” in politics, a little-known nonprofit group is fighting...
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All we have to do to see its effects is to...
The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend...
Appearing on Monday night’s Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Sen. Bernie Sanders told the show’s host that he’s still contemplating...
It’s always good when leaders tell the truth, especially if that wasn’t their intention. So we should be grateful to...
Walmart is a wildly successful company. Its “corporate fact sheet” online boasts that for “the fiscal year ended January 31,...
The Walton family—who, as heirs to the Walmart fortune, have more wealth than 42 percent of American families combined—are impeding...
A recent Rolling Stone article documenting Koch Industries’ “lucrative blend of pollution, speculation, law-bending and self-righteousness” over the last few...
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported last month, a net...
Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23. During a recent sit-down with the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich,...
WASHINGTON — The wealthiest Americans are playing a larger role in politics these days, thanks to campaign finance laws loosened...
We’ll be posting a new chart on the current state of income inequality every day for the next couple of...
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and...
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and...
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
In 1894, Chicago was the Midwest’s gateway to the rest of the United States. Twenty-four different railroad lines centered or...
In a newly released audio recording, obtained by The Undercurrent, a man identified as a top Koch strategist warned that...
When the political mercenaries of American oligarchy jet off to consort with their electoral paymasters, they never imagine that the...
The AP interviewed one of the lesser known Koch brothers, William, in what seems to be an attempt to soften...
There are some congressional Republicans who believe the party’s commitment to supply-side, trickle-down tax policy is in need of an...
The good news for US Atlantic coast offshore wind power just keeps rolling along. Earlier this year, renewable energy fans...
The world’s super-rich are returning to the high seas, with the number of luxury yacht sales hitting their highest level...
If you are not in the Chicago media market, you might not know much about Bruce Rauner, the Mitt Romney-like...