Rep. Katie Porter eviscerates pharma CEO with a math lesson about his $13 million salary
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
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Our Tax Code Is Designed To Create Donald Trump
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
Taxpayers looking at their monthly bills have a lot of thoughts about Trump’s $750 tax bill
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Outrage as Pentagon Funnels Hundreds of Millions Meant for Covid Supplies to Private Defense Contractors
Instead of adhering to congressional intent by building up the nation’s inadequate supply of N95 masks and other equipment to combat the...
GOP Leaders on Trump Post-Election Threats: Trust Us!
Top Republicans on Thursday vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the November election,...
Dirty Louisiana Politicians Get Paid To Push Pipeline Through Black & Indigenous Communities
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
Millions of Children Go Hungry as Mitch McConnell Blocks Stimulus Bill
Millions of children across the United States are already going hungry amid the economic recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
‘Delay, Distract, and Derail’: New Report Reveals How Plastic Polluters Avoid Regulation
Analysis released Thursday of the world’s top 10 biggest plastic polluters in 15 countries reveals how major corporations hide behind...
Faced With Consequences of Climate Crisis, Low-Lying Delaware Sues 31 Fossil Fuel Companies
Joining the trend of city, county, and state governments trying to make polluters pay for their significant contributions to the...
Progressives Demand McConnell ‘Get Serious’ About Coronavirus Relief
After Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to pass the so-called “skinny” coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health,...
Donald Trump is a Threat to the Planet
President Trump is a threat not just to America, but to the planet. I’m not talking about his radicalization of...
Minivans at the Food Pantry: Meet America’s New Needy
LAKESIDE, Calif. — This is America: a family crammed in a minivan driving mile after mile across San Diego County,...
Notorious liar Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came.
President Donald Trump has long promised to release a health care plan that could replace Obamacare, but with just two months to...
Anger grows at GOP over economic pain: ‘I blame Mitch McConnell the most’
With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy...
Big oil is lobbying the Trump administration to push plastic waste across Africa
A lobby group representing oil and chemical companies, including Shell, Exxon, Total, DuPont and Dow, has been pushing the Trump...
‘Wage theft’: Millions of workers will earn less in 2021 under Trump’s payroll tax deferral
Days after the payroll processor for the federal government—one of the nation’s largest employers—announced it would implement President Donald Trump’s plan...
Paul Krugman: Stocks are soaring. So is misery.
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 stock index hit a record high. The next day, Apple became the first U.S. company...
‘I don’t trust him’: How Trump abandoned workers when they needed him the most
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America...
Another Sleazy Trump Crony Arrested
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors...
Paul Krugman debunks right-wing myths about the US Postal Service
When he isn’t writing his New York Times column, Paul Krugman often addresses economic matters on Twitter. The liberal economist,...
McConnell’s refusal to help states likely to hurt US economy and result in 4 million more job losses
During the coronavirus crisis, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has stressed that he has no interest in “bailing out” blue...
‘A Homeless Pandemic’ Looms As 30 Million Are At Risk Of Eviction
Cruz Santos thought her life was finally turning around in early March when she found a job at a shoe...
Trump admitted on television he will ‘terminate’ Social Security and Medicare if he wins reelection
President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently “terminate” the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare...
Why the idea of jobless benefits scares the conservative mind
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
Trump still trying to destroy Obamacare — a crucial lifeline during the pandemic
Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it....
Filing by NY Prosecutors Indicates Broader Probe Into Alleged Trump Tax Fraud
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Anger With GOP Growing as $600 Unemployment Benefit Lapses
Americans angry with inaction from Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump on extending $600 a week unemployment benefits are accusing the...
A Majority Of People In The US Say The Federal Gov’t Should Do More About Climate
The US federal government should be doing a whole lot more to reduce the impacts of climate change. Those are the findings...
New Analysis Details How Electrifying the US Economy by 2035 Could Create 25 Million Green Jobs
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
Paul Krugman: ‘Cult of selfishness’ behind GOP’s destructive response to coronavirus pandemic
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reported a COVID-19 death count of more than 148,000 for the United States, which has...
‘For a Greener Future’: Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday introduced a bill to eliminate fossil fuel...
Trump’s Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers
Donald Trump and his cohort of propagandists at Fox News would have us believe the major cities of the United States have...
GOP COVID Relief Plan Includes Romney Bill to Slash Social Security and Medicare
Shortly after publicly ditching one attack on Social Security — the payroll tax cut — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed Thursday...
Trump family business profits from reelection bid amid pandemic
While President Trump faces bruising poll numbers amid the coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis, his family business continues making money off his...
McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Plan Sparks Alarm
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
‘Resounding’ Win for Public Health and Climate as Judge Blocks Trump Attempt to Gut Methane Restrictions
Green groups celebrated a “resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment” late Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from...
Mary Trump’s book reveals how Trump family gave rise to a ‘sociopath’
In a new book, Mary Trump — the president’s niece — describes Donald Trump as a “sociopath” who grew up...
‘Trump Death Clock’ Headed to DC
With Covid-19 pandemic surging in regions across the United States, progressive activists plan to spotlight the president’s “reckless and deadly”...
Minnesota Sues Exxon, Koch, American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon...
Sanders Unveils Amendment to Slash Bloated Pentagon Budget
With the Senate preparing to vote on an annual defense policy bill calling for $740.5 billion in military spending for...
The Trump Disaster Has Many Republican Women Bailing
It’s understandable that women, many of whom are overtaxed in this crisis with jobs, full-time child care and vulnerable elderly...
Republicans ramp up bid to rig election maps
A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions of dollars in funding from major US corporations such as CitiGroup and...
People of Ogoniland Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution
In 2011, a ground-breaking report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on oil pollution in Ogoniland highlighted the devastating impact of the...
The North Face Joins Civil Rights Boycott Urging Brands To Pull Facebook Ads
Outdoor clothing company The North Face became the highest-profile brand to join the #StopHateforProfit movement, which encourages large advertisers to...
Former Buffalo Officer Says ‘Cariol’s Law’ Could Stem Police Brutality
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cariol Horne, who was fired from the Buffalo Police Department in 2008 after stopping a fellow officer...
Student Movement Leads To 100% Renewable Energy Policy For Salt Lake City Schools
Ready for a dollop of good news in an otherwise bleak world? A movement begun by high school students in...
