What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy? A lot. — Paul Krugman
I have no idea how well Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will perform as a member of Congress. But her election is already...
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Solar Power Jobs Program Developed To Provide Skills For At-Risk Youth
A program has been created by HBI and IREC to help at-risk youth get jobs in the solar power industry. Solar...
The GOP Reboots Its Old Tax and Budget Scam
Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode...
24 Million Jobs Could Be Created From Meeting Paris Climate Agreement Targets
This month, when diplomats met in Poland to negotiate the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the United States took on...
Trump Continues His Insane Assault On The Environment
What do you call someone who places your life in imminent danger? If it’s intentional, it’s called attempted murder. If...
“Speaker Ryan will always be remembered for rigging the system to prioritize the wealthy”
As House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivered his farewell address on Wednesday after 20 years of relentlessly working to gut social programs for the...
Scientists stand behind youth climate activists in support of Green New Deal
Rachel Gold, an earth sciences student at Brown University, has been too busy with her research into signs of abrupt climate...
The Special Counsel’s Russia Probe is Making Millions by Catching Serial Tax Cheats
The special counsel’s spending on the Russia probe has now exceeded $25 million, according to the Department of Justice, but...
Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Exceeds $8 Trillion
Writing in The Guardian this week, Bill McKibben, the tireless climate activist and founder of 350.org, reports this bit of good news...
Trump Golf Count: $84,000,000 Billed to Taxpayers, So Far
Daytime visits to golf clubs since inauguration, with evidence of playing golf on at least 70 visits. The last recorded...
Big Oil’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite the Country’s Car Emissions Rules
When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers,...
Koch Brother’s Attempt to Upend Democracy & Make Americans Pay for the Damage
This is a story of how a small group of wealthy white men can hijack an entire nation, destroy its...
U.S. Charges Four in ‘Panama Papers’ Tax Evasion Scheme
U.S. prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have charged four people with taking part in a decades-long scheme to evade U.S....
Top Priority of Republican Congress: Give More Money To Billionaires
An interesting thing about politics is how you can distill so many nuanced policies down to a few core ideological...
Trump’s Panama tower used for money laundering, reports say
The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower soars over Panama City bay, a 70-storey skyscraper shaped like a sail. Donald...
Right-Wing Fox News Lets Trump’s EPA Head Choose His Own Questions In Interview
The combination of Fox & Friends and corrupt former Environmental Protection Administration head Scott Pruitt wouldn’t lead you to expect anything good,...
Boycott Urged After San Francisco Giants Owner Donates to Neo-Confederate Candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith
SAN FRANCISCO — A civil rights attorney is calling for a boycott of the San Francisco Giants after the baseball team’s...
Alt-Right Fox News Focuses On Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes More Than Climate Report
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday criticized Fox News for not dedicating enough time to the gloomy new climate change report the Trump...
Fossil Fuel Companies Kill With Impunity. Why Are Their Leaders Not In Jail?
Over the course of 2018, I have started emphasizing how the extraction and sale of fossil fuels is like a...
Analysis: The Doom Of Fossil Fuel Investments
There is a very short window of time to get out of pure-play oil & gas company investments without substantial...
Audit Shows that a Corrupt Pentagon Can’t Explain Where $800 Million of Taxpayer Money Went
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Politico’s Bryan Bender about a story he broke earlier this week on troubling results...
David Cay Johnston on Tax Cheating: It’s Not Just The Trumps
In radio shows and talks from London to Boston to Richmond, Ind., people keep asking me how the Trump family got...
Major Victory for a Million Workers: Minimum Wage Increases Pass in Arkansas and Missouri
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
Some Good News For The Planet: Ozone Layer Coming Back
As it turns out, the impact of human activity on the planet and the environment can work both ways. This...
Trump’s acting attorney general involved in outfit that scammed veterans out of life savings
Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their...
Three states just voted to expand Medicaid and give more than 300,000 people health care
Residents in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday, granting health coverage...
Gov. Scott Walker, who rose to prominence attacking teachers unions, unseated by a former teacher
Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin’s state superintendent of public education and a former teacher, won the governor’s race against incumbent Scott...
Human Rights Group Calls For Investigation Of Giuliani, Trump Money-Laundering
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is now reporting that an international human rights organization has requested that prosecutors in The Netherlands open...
Cleantech Creates Far More US Jobs Than Dirty Energy Does
There’s a wildly incorrect claim that Republicans are more “pro-job” or “pro-economy” than Democrats. That’s absolutely not true… Read more…
Trump Sued for Scamming Struggling Investors Through Endorsement Deals
In 2014, a financially struggling hospice caregiver in California decided to invest in a video phone marketing company by the...
CEO Pleads Guilty To Fraud After Dispensing Millions of Opioid Painkillers
A wealthy CEO might actually be heading to prison – a rare occurrence in America today. Mashiyat Rashid, the CEO of...
Tobacco Companies Spending Millions To Defeat Healthcare Expansion In Midterms
Tobacco companies are pouring millions of dollars into the midterms this year, trying to fight off tax increases on their deadly products...
Three Easy Fixes to Social Security and Medicare that Republicans Won’t Acknowledge
Republicans would love to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. But they can’t, because Social Security and Medicare are...
Trump Admits Climate Change Is Not A Hoax, Doesn’t Plan To Do Anything About It Anyway
On 60 Minutes last Sunday, putative president Donald Trump backed away from his famous assertion that climate change was a hoax invented...
Salesforce CEO: Tech Billionaires ‘Hoard Their Money’ And Won’t Help Homeless
Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, has escalated his attacks on fellow San Francisco billionaires, saying they are “hoarding” money and don’t want...
The Trump Family’s Pump and Dump Scam
A massive new investigation by Pro Publica reveals President Donald Trump and his children engage in systematic deceit to lure investors to its...
National TV News Stations Drop the Ball on GOP Georgia Voter Suppression
Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is blocking the voter registrations of tens of thousands of...
Climate Change: Warm October Ocean Water Was Fuel for Hurricane Michael’s Devastation
Sometimes connecting climate change to a specific weather event is difficult. With Hurricane Michael, it’s not. The science is easy: Earth’s waters...
Senator Bernie Sanders: Trump ‘Lying About Medicare for All’
In reaction to President Donald Trump’s op-ed on Wednesday—titled, “Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan will demolish promises to seniors“—Sen. Bernie...
More Republicans Get Caught Lying On Climate Change
Climate change deniers aren’t crazy… they’re lying. John Iadarola takes on Senator Marco Rubio and other right-wingers on climate change… Read more…
NY Times Unmasks Donald Trump: Built Empire on Father’s Money, Tax Dodging and Fraud
President Donald Trump built his personal brand and presidential candidacy on the claim that he was a self-made billionaire whose...
Senator Bernie Sanders Congratulates Jeff Bezos For Taking His Advice
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) congratulated Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday for announcing he would raise wages to $15 per...
Corrupt Trump Sued For Illegally Taking Gifts From Foreign Governments
On Friday evening, just as he was dealing with a setback to his Supreme Court nomination, President Donald Trump got a fresh...
Why We Need to See Trump’s Tax Returns
Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went frombeing dubbed...
By Gutting Methane Restrictions Trump Continues His Assault on the Environment
Continuing its relentless “assault on clean air, public lands, our health, and our climate,” the Trump administration on Tuesday gutted a major Obama-era...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Proposal to Go After Washington DC’s Culture of Corruption
We are in the midst of a corruption crisis. In the past few weeks alone, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney,...
