Senator Bernie Sanders’ Bill Would Send Big Pharma Execs Behind Opioid Crisis to Jail
While President Donald Trump attempts to place blame for the enduring opioid addiction crisis on immigrants, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)...
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Report: Trump businesses corral millions from political and taxpayer spending
Donald Trump’s US businesses have raked in $15.1m in revenue from political groups and federal agencies since he began his...
Death At Trump Tower Comes After Trump Fought Fire Safety Laws And Never Installed Sprinklers
President Donald Trump lobbied not to have sprinklers installed on the residential floors of his New York properties. After one...
Under Republican Tax Law — Richest One Percent Get Extra $33,000 Per Year — The Poor Get $40
In its first analysis of how the GOP tax plan will affect Americans’ personal income taxes alone, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center...
One of the Trump Swamp’s Biggest Swindlers, Scott Pruitt, Under Fire
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting pressure to resign amid ballooning scandals over his spending habits and a...
Saudi Crown Prince Visit to White House Tied to Unresolved 9/11 Questions
In light of President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince Tuesday, it bears remembering that the Saudi royal...
Michigan Schools Save Money With Solar Projects
A Flushing, Michigan, school district will soon be part of a solar project that is forecast to save the community...
Robert Reich: As President’s go, we’ve had our share of crooks, bigots and incompetents, but never all three at once.
America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew...
Corrupt NRA Caught Taking Russian Cash
Responding to an inquiry from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the NRA admitted that they are taking foreign (read: Russian) money,...
Trump’s Erratic Behavior Rekindles Theories About Untreated Neurosyphilis
The cause of Donald Trump’s erratic behavior has been the subject of rampant speculation for years. Some have pointed to the hair-loss drug...
Elizabeth Warren Tells HUD Chief Ben Carson He Should Be Fired For Not Enforcing The Law
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tore into Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday, ripping the former neurosurgeon for...
Jared Kushner Made Millions By Breaking New York Housing Laws
The Associated Press reported that Jared Kushner’s real estate business in New York City was partially built on illegally kicking...
Bernie Sanders’ Economic Inequality Town Hall Attracts 1.7 Million Viewers
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on economic inequality drew about 1.7 million live viewers during an online...
‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon and the White Supremacist Mercer Family Caught Rigging Elections Worldwide
For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the...
Budget Deficit Projected To Go Up 31 Percent Due To Trump Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The United States Treasury Department said Monday that the federal budget deficit in February was significantly higher than a year...
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t.
The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our...
The Rich Guys in Trump’s Cabinet Who Can’t Resist Spending Public Money on Themselves
The revelation that the US housing secretary, Ben Carson, and his wife selected a $31,000 dining set for his office...
Biggest Koch Whore In Congress Is New US Secretary Of State
Of all the congressional representatives who have suckled themselves at the breast of the Koch brothers and their friends, Mike...
Wind and Solar Could Meet 80 Percent of the United States’ Electricity Demand
A new study from US researchers has shown that wind and solar power generation could reliably meet 80% of the...
Obamacare Is More Popular Than Ever And People Don’t Want Medicaid Messed With
The surprising success of the 2018 Affordable Care Act enrollments in the face of sabotage by the Trump administration was...
Former Trump Adviser Suspiciously Sells Millions In Steel Stocks Just Before Tariffs Announced
In what could be yet another scandal brewing for the White House – this time one involving insider trading –...
Uber And Lyft Drivers’ Median Hourly Wage Is Just $3.37, Report Finds
Uber and Lyft drivers in the US make a median profit of $3.37 per hour before taxes, according to a...
Businesses Gave Over $500 Million To Jared Kushner’s Company After White House Meetings
Companies that met with Jared Kushner at the White House gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kushner family...
Trump Caves To The NRA Lobby: Backs Away From Age Increase On Owning Assault Weapons
Donald Trump is already caving to the National Rifle Association less than two weeks after a gunman took the lives...
The Many Ways That Trump Is Making America Worse Again: David Cay Johnston
David Cay Johnston is an expert on Donald Trump. The 69-year-old investigative journalist and author has reported on Trump for...
The Right-Wing Billionaires Bankrolling the Effort Destroy America’s Unions
The Economic Policy Institute released a report today detailing the network of conservative mega-donors supporting the Supreme Court case Janus...
Trump’s VA Secretary Steals From Taxpayers
U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin isn’t going to be resigning as he should be. Instead, Viveca Wright Simpson, Shulkin’s...
How the NRA Helped Train the Florida School Shooter
NRA Foundation — the National Rifle Association subsidiary responsible for the group’s school safety initiative — helped fund the marksmanship...
Trump and Putin Share the Same Criminal Network
by Mark Tracy No previous United States president has had anything close to Donald J. Trump’s record of repeated...
U.S. Now The Second Largest Tax Haven
According to the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index, the US ranks as the second largest tax haven on earth, surpassing the...
Trump’s EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Says a Lack of Public ‘Civility’ Forces Him to Take Expensive First Class Flights
Scott Pruitt is back in the big seats. Two days after an exposé in the Washington Post revealed the EPA...
Pentagon Won’t Answer Who Would Pay for Trump’s Expensive Military Parade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday said it was not certain that the Washington-area would host a parade requested...
New York City Plans to Divest $5 Billion from Fossil Fuels and Sue Oil Companies
New York City is seeking to lead the assault on climate change and the Trump administration with a plan to...
Fight For $15 Movement Plans Fast-Food Workers’ Strike Across South
The Fight for $15, the movement that has galvanized city campaigns to raise the pay of low-wage workers, is teaming...
Anti-Science Trump Plans To Gut Renewable Energy Research Funding By 72 Percent
Continuing his disastrous anti-environment crusade, Donald Trump is reportedly proposing to gut funding for renewable energy research programs by a...
Bernie Sanders Brilliantly Dismantles All Of The Lies Trump Told In His SOTU Speech
In this Majority Report clip, we watch Bernie Sanders, piece by piece, cut through Donald Trump’s State of the Union...
Melania Trump Wasted $675,000 Of Taxpayer Money On 21 Vacation Flights In 3 Months
While living in New York, First Lady Melania Trump cost taxpayers $675,000 to and from New York to DC, and...
Elizabeth Warren Lays Out Plan To Hold Health Insurers Accountable
WASHINGTON ― In a speech to a liberal health policy conference on Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed new rules to...
Trump Announces Plan To Increase Levels Of Toxic Air Pollution In America
The Trump administration has announced their plan to roll back regulations under the Clean Air Act that will allow fossil...
Oxfam Calls Out Donald Trump for Making Wealth Inequality Worse
The world’s richest 1 percent raked in 82 percent of the wealth created last year, according to a new report...
Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare For All’ Online Town Hall Draws Over 1 Million Live Viewers
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on Tuesday night to promote single-payer health care, or “Medicare for all,” drew a live...
Now Republicans Are Threatening to Blow Up Children’s Health Care: Paul Krugman
Back in the depths of the Cold War, people used to talk about “doomsday machines,” devices that could destroy the...
White House Propaganda Crumbles As Doctor Admits Trump Hasn’t Had A Psychological Evaluation
The White House is going to try to spin the results of Trump’s physical into an argument that he is...
Trump’s Golf Trips Cost Taxpayers $43 Million In 2017
According to a new analysis of Trump’s golfing habits, his frequent trips to the golf course cost American taxpayers $43...
Let’s Wrench Power Back From the Billionaires: Bernie Sanders
Here is where we are as a planet in 2018: after all of the wars, revolutions and international summits of...
Like His Late Father Who Had Alzheimer’s, Trump May Be Suffering from the Same Disease
President Donald Trump’s decision to about the size of his “nuclear button” compared with North Korea’s was widely condemned as...
