Billionaire Koch Brothers Intend To Spend $42 Million To Keep Mitch McConnell In Power
The Koch brothers are no fans of Donald Trump, but there has been no bigger defender of their dark money...
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Corporate Fossil Fuel Lobbying Efforts Mirror Tobacco Industry
We hear a lot these days about how fossil fuel companies are spending large amounts of money to influence policy...
Uninsured Rate Cut to Single Digits Thanks to Obamacare
More than 7 million Americans who were previously uninsured received healthcare coverage in 2015, during the second full year of...
If You Have A Serious Illness, Paul Ryan Wants To Help You Die Sooner
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) dropped some hints about what the Republican alternative to Obamacare will look like,...
Petition Calls For Employers To Offer Fossil-Free Retirement Options
Many in the US are at least partly reliant upon employer-offered retirement planning for their post-employment financial well-being. With that...
Instead of Lobbying, Utilities Could Have Doubled US Solar Capacity
The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute just released a report analyzing the top 25 US investor-owned electric utilities, and one...
Reactionary Koch Brother Pawn Rick Scott Vetoes Bill That Helps the Poor
It takes hardly any time at all to find examples of Republicans in positions of power who seem to relish...
The End of Big Money in Elections? 6 Reasons to Think So
This year’s presidential election is projected to be the most expensive in U.S. history. As of this writing, more $127 million...
Judge Tosses Out Scott Walker’s Unconstitutional Anti-Union Law
After long last, unions got a big win today in Wisconsin as Judge C. William Foust tossed out Governor Scott...
Oil Companies Have Lied About Climate Change For Decades While Sitting On The Proof
A 48 year old report recently unearthed reveals that oil executives knew about the effects that the extraction and burning...
Bernie Sanders: Verizon is the poster child for corporate greed
Hours after he had joined the picket line alongside Verizon workers, Senator Sanders was speaking to thousands of supporters in...
Raising The Minimum Wage Popular With Americans
Americans are broadly supportive of proposals to raise the minimum wage, although they can’t agree on how high it should...
Harry Reid Exposes The Koch Brother’s Obstructionism
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is not impressed with Republican senators right now. Reid, a staunch believer in old...
Americans Favor Bernie Sanders’ Tax Plan
A new WalletHub/Survey Monkey poll of 2016 taxpayers found that Bernie Sanders has the most popular tax plan of all...
New York Joins California on the Path to a $15 Minimum Wage and Paid Family Leave
California’s legislature passed a $15 minimum wage on Thursday—and the same day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislators made a...
Sanders Says Walker’s “Right Wing” Ideology Kills People
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday night accused Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker of supporting an agenda that kills people. “Governor Walker...
Bernie Sanders: Republicans Are One Conservative Supreme Court Justice Away From Gutting Organized Labor
Bernie Sanders used labor’s victory in a deadlocked Supreme Court case to stand with America’s workers and warn that Republicans...
Trump’s and Cruz’s Tax Plans Redistribute Wealth To The Rich
The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and...
The Republican Plan To Destroy The Government And Let Corporations Rule
Republicans love telling us that the private industry can run things better than the government, and that’s why they work...
Mormon Republicans Continue Bundy’s War On Americans’ Public Lands
Nearly two years ago when a Mormon rancher who hates the federal government he had been stealing from for 20...
Trump Supporter Giuliani Reveals Himself To Be A Mussolini-Type Fascist
STEVE DOOCY (HOST): In the wake of the Brussels attack, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both agree that maybe there...
How Walmart Leeches Off Of U.S. Taxpayers
David Pakman gives an examination into how Walmart creates customers by underpaying employees, and leeches off of government welfare programs…...
Paul Krugman: Tax Cuts for Billionaires are GOP’s Number One Priority
Remember Paul Ryan? The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the...
The Chamber of Commerce Elite Continues Its Assault On The Working Class
The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to fight a Seattle ordinance that could extend union protections and benefits to...
The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
If you’re a hardcore libertarian, which program would you be most eager to privatize? The VA, of course, which is...
Sucking-up to the Billionaire Class Not Enough to Save Marco Rubio
In the final days of his presidential campaign, Marco Rubio took on a noble, elegiac tone, presenting himself as the...
Why the Critics of Bernienomics Are Wrong
Not day goes by, it seems, without the mainstream media bashing Bernie Sanders’s economic plan – quoting certain economists as...
Book Exposes Koch Brothers’ Guide to Infiltrating the Media
A new book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer lays out how the oil billionaire Koch brothers rose to the powerful position...
Donald Trump Wants to Give His Rich Cronies Huge Tax Breaks
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to...
Paul Krugman: Clash of Republican Con Artists
So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy...
A Handful of Billionaires Are Trying To Buy The White House
A small group of billionaires is trying very hard to buy the presidency. They want to buy the White House...
How America’s Superrich Are Cutting the Lifespan of the Poor
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
Warren: Republicans Do Their Best To Protect Corporate Criminals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren shamed Republicans on the Senate floor for perpetuating the already problematic rigged legal system that protects corporate...
Greed-head Billionaire Steve Wynn Now Supports Fellow Billionaire Donald Trump
It’s very odd, as a resident of Las Vegas, to see Steve Wynn making nice to Donald J. Trump of...
Koch Brothers Can’t Stop Trying To Kill People
How much damage can two individuals do? If those two people are the Koch Brothers (pronounced “coke”) the answer is,...
President Obama Stymies The Right-Wing Oligarchs By Taking The Citizens United Fight To The States
While addressing the Illinois General Assembly, President Obama did what the billionaires and special interests fear most. He took the...
Top Economist Says Bernie Sanders’ Plan Would Lead to a Big Increase in Median Income and Jobs
Gerald Friedman, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, prepared an exclusive analysis to CNN Money on Bernie...
Billionaire Koch’s Promote Hard Right Propaganda Narrative That ‘Greed Is Good’
For decades, the Koch Brothers have funded a massive propaganda operation to disparage what democracy can do when a society...
Wall Street Billionaire Puzzled by Bernie Sanders’ Popularity
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the amount of discontent apparently felt by other Americans these days… Read more…
Koch Brothers and Their Front Group ALEC Attempt to Destroy Nation’s Solar Industry
The fight over solar net metering in Nevada just got personal last Friday, with a proposed new amendment tacked on...
The Revolt of the Middle Class
The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Top 10 Corporate Tax Dodgers
Bernie Sanders is making Big Business shudder by using his platform as a presidential candidate to expose the top 10...
Paul Krugman: Plutocrats and Prejudice
Every time you think that our political discourse can’t get any worse, it does. The Republican primary fight has devolved...
The One Percent Often Shuns Those Less Fortunate
There’s plenty of evidence to support the work ethic of poor people. —–Almost 63 percent of America’s work-eligible poor are...
Right-Winger David Brooks Thinks Oligarchs Should Be Running The Country
Like many establishment Republicans, the conservative columnist for The New York Times sees the barbarians pouring through the gates and fears...
Bernie Sanders’ Single-Payer Healthcare Plan Will Save American Families $1200 a Year
This week Hillary Clinton’s campaign launched a barrage of assaults on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer healthcare plan, claiming that the plan...
