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...
While addressing the Illinois General Assembly, President Obama did what the billionaires and special interests fear most. He took the...
Gerald Friedman, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, prepared an exclusive analysis to CNN Money on Bernie...
For decades, the Koch Brothers have funded a massive propaganda operation to disparage what democracy can do when a society...
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the amount of discontent apparently felt by other Americans these days… Read more…
The fight over solar net metering in Nevada just got personal last Friday, with a proposed new amendment tacked on...
The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that...
Bernie Sanders is making Big Business shudder by using his platform as a presidential candidate to expose the top 10...
Every time you think that our political discourse can’t get any worse, it does. The Republican primary fight has devolved...
There’s plenty of evidence to support the work ethic of poor people. —–Almost 63 percent of America’s work-eligible poor are...
Like many establishment Republicans, the conservative columnist for The New York Times sees the barbarians pouring through the gates and fears...
This week Hillary Clinton’s campaign launched a barrage of assaults on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer healthcare plan, claiming that the plan...
Imagine America without unions. This shouldn’t be hard. In much of America unions have already disappeared. In the rest of...
After his ground-breaking speech earlier this month announcing his plan for Wall Street reform, Bernie Sanders’ has seen enormous support...
How can there be 400 billionaires so self-absorbed in their fortunes and greed that they cannot see the sea of...
In January 2015, at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., the political network led by conservative billionaires Charles and...
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it’s a conclusion from...
Low-income workers rallied across the country to turn the minimum wage into a livable one in 2015. As servers and...
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ripped Donald Trump apart after the billionaire lied about the Sanders tax plan. At the...
In June, President Obama signed an executive order that directed the Labor Department to chance the rules for overtime pay....
The hedge fund magnates Daniel S. Loeb, Louis Moore Bacon and Steven A. Cohen have much in common. They have...
Sanders has proposed a detailed plan for addressing the country’s infrastructure needs, with an investment of $1 trillion. His plan...
In his wide-ranging interview with “Killer Mike,” Bernie Sanders drew on his knowledge of the civil rights era to show...
Dear Readers: In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washington...
In the America of haves and have-nots, fewer folks are “movin’ on up” like George Jefferson of the classic sitcom....
In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to...
About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw...
According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and...
After it had been revealed that Bernie Sanders has gotten 1/30th of the coverage that Donald Trump has received on...
Legal activists have long observed that there are two systems of law in America, one for the rich and one...
Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move...
Many wealthy white conservative males believe they deserve their good fortunes, and that the poor are taking handouts. But on...
The richest Americans increasingly are taking over the levers of power and shaping the political debate, despite opposing views held...
Apparently, there are Americans who hate the idea of contributing to the general welfare of the United States, what George...
The US and 18 other countries have pledged to double funds for clean energy research to a total of $20bn...
Drug giant Pfizer has merged with Irish company Allergan in order to benefit from tax evasion by relocating its headquarters...
Leading scientists have accused a Republican-led committee of subjecting climate researchers to politically motivated “harassment” amid an increasingly fractious investigation...
In the autumn of 2012, when Walmart first heard about the possibility of a strike on Black Friday, executives mobilized...
The red states are the backbone of the Republican Party, but growing evidence suggests that opposition to ObamaCare expansion is...
Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at Georgetown University on Thursday afternoon to address his political stance as a Democratic Socialist. His...
Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn’t even...
New state unemployment statistics revealed that the fastest way to sink an economy is to vote for Republican candidates. According...
The White House is not happy about language on corporate crime that the House Judiciary Committee approved on Wednesday as...
Millennials are often made out to be selfish and individualistic, but they appear to be taking a greater interest in...
Not one Wall Street executive was criminally charged following the 2008 global financial collapse, and if the Koch brothers and House...