Scott Walker: Denying Health Care To Low-Income People Helps Them ‘Live The American Dream’
Defending his fellow Republican governors’ decision to block Medicaid expansion in their states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday...
Defending his fellow Republican governors’ decision to block Medicaid expansion in their states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday...
Appearing on Monday night’s Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Sen. Bernie Sanders told the show’s host that he’s still contemplating...
Although Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has been referred to as “America’s Craziest Governor,” he won his re-election last week –...
Presidents are rarely able to accomplish much in the last two years of a second term. Tuesday’s election results guaranteed...
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
Responding to the “disgraceful” voter turnout for last week’s midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that...
“The Chevrons of the world, the Koch Brothers and the others … their religion is greed … we cannot allow...
Silly season is almost over. But in these waning days before the November 4 election, Republicans are getting in their...
Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state...
Name a major super-PAC or dark-money outfit and there’s a good chance it has helped Republican Scott Brown, the former...
Americans are working longer hours and are more productive—yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real...
Reasonable people may differ on the precise definition of a living wage. But the consensus is that $7.25 an hour...
Republicans’ most likely path to retaking the Senate in November requires GOPers to pick up seats in six key states:...
In a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) was asked whether he supports the concept of a...
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
What does “SWIMNUT” know that the world’s supposed experts on corruption or the elites who gather each year for skiing...
A rightwing legal group is suing the school district, school board, and teacher’s union in Madison, Wisconsin, for honoring a...
The battle between Democratic congressman Bruce Braley and Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s next US senator couldn’t...
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn’t worry about inequality because the true concern is the...
In case there was any remaining confusion with regard to the precise political intentions of the US Supreme Court’s activist...
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...
Two coal-state senators plan to introduce sweeping legislation to reform the federal program meant to provide benefits to miners suffering...
On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100...
House Speaker John Boehner says that unemployed Americans are pretty clearly malingerers, bums on welfare who have decided that they...
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
This week, Republican Senators introduced a bill they call the “The National Labor Relations Board Reform Act.” Its chances of...
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and...
Dark money groups have already poured more than $5 million into Arizona’s elections this cycle. These organizations, carefully constructed to...
When Governor Jerry Brown signs Assembly Bill 1522, California will join a growing number of states where temporary or part-time...
At a Koch Brothers-hosted secret strategy conference of right-wing millionaire and billionaire political activists in June, Senate Minority Leader Mitch...
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who resigned last month after losing renomination to an underfunded college professor, spent...
At least 72 corporate funders have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the wake of the...
When the political mercenaries of American oligarchy jet off to consort with their electoral paymasters, they never imagine that the...
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
For seven decades, Social Security has been under attack by opponents who consider government-guaranteed pensions for Americans to receive as...
The 10 states with the highest percentage of uninsured adult residents all have one thing in common: They’re led by...
If you are not in the Chicago media market, you might not know much about Bruce Rauner, the Mitt Romney-like...
After forty years of pushing corporate-friendly policy in state legislatures, this week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is launching...
So what are Republicans in the House of Representatives up to these days? According to Danny Vinik, they just passed...
On Thursday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his much-anticipated proposal for reforming the way the federal government tries to alleviate...
Newly-obtained documents show that the billionaire Koch brothers’ political giving is much more expansive than has previously been known. In...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the minimum wage, like Trix, is for kids. Speaking in San Francisco over the weekend,...
California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown has permitted SB 1272, an advisory measure entitled the Overturn Citizens United Act, to appear...