Warren Buffett Says Trumpcare Is A Big Giveaway To The Richest One Percent
For a guy who stands to keep over half-a-million dollars, Warren Buffett is not too pleased. In a Monday appearance...
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Catholics Petition The Senate To Stop Trump From Taking Health Care From Americans
The group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is calling on US Senators to stand up and stop...
Despite What The Corporate Media Professes, Survey Shows Young People Want Progressive Change
A new survey conducted by the Runawayinequality.org Educational Network shows that younger Americans (ages 18-40) overwhelmingly support bold proposals to...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Raise The Minimum Wage
Sen. Bernie Sanders along with House and Senate Democrats introduced a bill today that will give Democrats a powerful rallying...
Rupert Murdoch’s Corporate Legacy: Chronic Sexual Harassment and Rampant Lawbreaking
Bill O’Reilly may be gone at Fox News, but Rupert Murdoch’s festering Fox News mess isn’t going away anytime soon....
Reality Check: Today’s Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal
President Trump has promised to revive the coal industry and double down on fossil fuels, creating “so many energy jobs,”...
Donald Trump Resurrects Trickle Down Economics
Donald Trump loves the 1980s. After all, that was when his celebrity rose in New York, when Trump Tower was...
From Turkey to China, The Self-Serving Trumps Continue to Cash in on Presidency
As always with the Trumps, follow the money. Back in 2012, Ivanka Trump tweeted thanks to Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan…...
Nate Silver Reveals How The Corporate Media Cost Hillary Clinton The Election
The media doesn’t talk about how Hillary Clinton really lost, because it implicates their judgment. Nate Silver pointed out that...
Dow Chemical Gets White House To Ignore Science And Allow Dangerous Pesticide
Dow Chemical gave $1 million to help pay for Donald Trump’s inauguration, and now they’re hoping that the administration will...
9,000 Americans Who Rely On Meals On Wheels Will Go Hungry To Pay For Trump’s Lavish Florida Vacations
The money to cover the cost of President Trump’s vacations to his private resort in Florida has to come from...
Lives Of The Richest One Percent: Hobnobbing With The President For A $200,000 Fee
President Donald Trump spent the weekend with his favorite people: the dues-paying members of his Mar-a-Lago Golf Club, which costs...
Trump Just Cost Americans Saving For Their Retirement $3.7 Billion
Donald Trump talked a big game on the campaign trail about standing up to big corporations and putting the interests...
Trump and His Fossil Fuel Buddies Can’t Make The Clean Energy Economy Disappear
While President Trump’s executive order turning back many Obama-era climate change policies is great optics for his energy policy conservative...
Attempting to Boost His Dismal Poll Numbers, Donald Bombs Syria
In every type of government, nothing unites people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than war. Donald Trump now sees...
Fox News: A Haven for Sexual Predators
CHRIS HAYES (HOST): I want to ask you about something the president said today on the record in the Oval Ooffice about Bill O’Reilly,...
Congressional Candidate Wendy Carrillo Stands Up To Klan Terrorist David Duke
Wendy Carrillo is one of the two dozen candidates in California vying for the opportunity to represent the state’s 34th...
After Trumpcare Failure, Bernie Sanders & Progressives Push Medicare For All Plan
With the plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act dead for the moment, Senator Bernie Sanders is trying...
Senate Republicans Vote To Take Retirement Accounts Away From Low Income Workers
By a 50-49 vote, Senate Republicans have rolled back an Obama-era regulation that allowed states to create retirement accounts for...
GOP Governor Sam Brownback Denies Medicaid to Kansas Residents
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) rejected legislation on Thursday that would have used funding from the Affordable Care Act to...
Trump Enriches Fossil Fuel Polluters
At this juncture in Trump’s America, it might be a chore to find an American who isn’t aware that the...
Americans Rejoice as Trumpcare Con Collapses
Well, the health care vote was canceled. Again. Just two and a half weeks after it was introduced, the American...
The Trump Budget: Putting America’s Richest 1% First
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez ripped President Trump’s first federal budget outline Thursday, saying it favors the wealthy...
The Paul Ryan Approach: Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Losing Your Health Insurance
See what you make of this, and it comes in two parts: First, the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report...
Donald Trump Loses All Credibility Over Jobs Report
Press Secretary Sean Spicer quoted President Trump regarding the February jobs report, saying it “they may have been phony in...
Tucker Carlson Just Now Realizing Republicans Hate Poor People
Paul Ryan seems kind of surprised Tucker didn’t get the memo… Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it...
Solar Spring Break 2017 Offers Hands-On Training While Installing In Under-Served Communities
Spring break is coming! Spring break is coming! But instead of going to the beach, or the mountains, or wherever...
Trumpcare to Take Away Healthcare from Millions
The White House doesn’t want the American people to call the Republican Obamacare replacement that is going to take health...
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds St. Louis’ $11 Minimum Wage
The Missouri Supreme Court gave low-wage workers in St. Louis a raise on Tuesday. The five-judge panel issued a ruling...
Trump to Gut the EPA in Order to Give More Money to a Wasteful Pentagon
In order to fund an unnecessary $54 billion increase in U.S. defense spending, Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to...
Draft-Dodger Trump Does Photo-Op On Aircraft Carrier
He has been attempting to sound more presidential. Now he wants to look like a commander-in-chief, too. Donald Trump donned...
New Exxon CEO Echoes Rex Tillerson’s Self-Serving Disinformation On Climate Science
Darren Woods, the new chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp., mirrored his predecessor’s skeptical view on climate change in his...
Ivanka Trump Is Pushing Congress To Pass A $500 Billion Gift To Rich People With Nannies
The Trump family is showing that they have no understanding of the lives of regular people, as President Trump’s daughter...
EPA’s Mission Subverted By Trump Choice Scott Pruitt
The US Environmental Protection Agency has almost immediately been castrated and had any legitimacy it once had undermined after Scott...
Donald Trump Ordered To Pay $5.77 Million To Golf Club Members He Stiffed
A Florida golf course owned by President Donald Trump has been ordered to immediately pay $5.77 million to former members...
Trump’s Florida Vacations Have Cost Taxpayers Almost As Much In A Month As Obama Spent In A Year
President Trump’s weekend vacations to his private club in Florida have cost taxpayers almost as much in a month ($11.3...
Big Oil Gets Its Man As EPA Chief
The Senate narrowly confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency chief on Friday, despite Democrats’ calls to delay the...
Olbermann: Trump’s reckless handling of intelligence would have gotten Hillary ‘impeached before sunrise’
Reaching back to the not-so-distant past, when conservatives had a meltdown over Hillary Clinton’s private email servers, commentator Keith Olbermann...
Trump Shows His Contempt for the Working Class by Nominating Puzder
If Donald Trump truly cared about working Americans, as he claimed during his campaign, he never would have nominated a...
Sen. Chris Murphy Seeks Trump Tax Returns to Explain ‘Bizarre Positioning’ on Russia
Looking for an “alternative explanation” for Trump’s “bizarre positioning” on Russia, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said this morning on MSNBC...
Seattle Refuses To Do Business With Wells Fargo In Dakota Access Protest
On February 7th, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to stop doing business with Wells Fargo Bank because it has...
Klan Sympathizer Jeff Sessions’ Record On Voting Rights Back In Spotlight After Senate Rules Scuffle
A procedural scuffle between Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) brought back to the forefront accusations...
Bernie Sanders Exposes Trump As A Fraud Who Lied To Voters
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump a fraud, and he pointed out the ways that Trump has lied to the...
Trump’s Executive Order Gift to His Wall Street Cronies
WASHINGTON ― One of the Donald Trump administration’s first orders of business on the economy will scuttle a rule protecting...
Solar & Wind Jobs Growing 12x Faster Than US Economy But Crazy Donald Wants To Kill Them
Would you rather be a coal miner or a solar power technician? Bad news if you answered (correctly) that life...
Trump Proposes an Energy Plan That Puts Americans Last
The new boss waited about 1.2 nanoseconds before announcing his America First Energy Plan. Environmental groups weighed in a heartbeat...
Repealing Obamacare Could Kill 43,000 People Per Year
Republicans seem hellbent on repealing The Affordable Care Act, and a new study shows that doing so without a comparable...
Trump’s First Presidential Act Is To Raise Mortgage Rates On Struggling Homeowners
One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president was to hurt struggling homeowners by signing an executive order that reversed...
Progressive Bernie Sanders Feels Honored by How Much the Billionaire Class Hates Him
Senator Bernie Sanders has more than a few things to be proud of: he led a massive, populist political movement...
Savage Republicans Vote To Strip Healthcare From 6 Vulnerable Groups
It is amazing that in America, the richest nation in mankind’s history, there are laws against cruelty to animals but...
