Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century
In public, Republicans have denounced Democrats’ ambitious electoral-reform bill, the For the People Act, as an unpopular partisan ploy. In...
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America’s Richest 1% Dodge Taxes On More Than A Fifth Of Their Income, Study Finds
The top 1% of the highest-earning American households are hiding 21% of their income from the Internal Revenue Service, costing...
Georgia activists call for Coca-Cola boycott over ‘deafening silence’ on voting rights
Georgia activists are calling for a statewide boycott of Coca-Cola as part of an escalating effort to get major corporations to oppose...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bills to Lower Prescription Drug Costs
A head of a subcommittee hearing on the “soaring” cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont),...
Study Finds Trump And GOP Killed Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans With Botched Pandemic Response
According to a new Brookings Institute study as reported by Reuters: The United States squandered both money and lives in its...
Robert Reich: Zoom paying no taxes while getting rich is proof ‘the system is rigged’
“Zoom saw its profits increase 4,000% last year,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich noted. “But, wait for it, paid no...
Big Oil’s Lies About Pollution Health Risks Contributed To Millions Of Deaths
Images of emaciated polar bears and warnings about the dangers of a warming planet are all well and good but...
How employers punish workers for forming unions
Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to...
Faces of Greed: The Walton Family of Walmart
Bernie Sanders: I say to the Walton family of Walmart: the American people are sick and tired of subsidizing your...
Biden To Raise Taxes On The Rich After Cutting Child Poverty In Half
President Biden cut child poverty in half with the American Rescue Plan, and he is following it up by making...
The Amazon Union Election Is Unusual. Amazon’s Robust Anti-Union Campaign Isn’t.
BESSEMER, Ala. ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways. With...
Wealth Gained by Billionaires Amid COVID Could Pay for Two-Thirds of Relief Bill
America’s billionaires have made so much money they could fund two-thirds of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) with just...
Right Wing Attacks On COVID-19 Relief Flop
The House of Representatives just passed their final version of the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion package aimed at ending the...
Morgan Stanley: The Oil Industry Is About To Become Worthless
There’s a lot of denial and wishful thinking in the oil and auto fields these days, but on the other...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Says Taxpayers Should No Longer Subsidize Walmart’s Starvation Wages
With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part...
President Joe Biden offers support to Amazon workers in a pro-union video
In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether...
Despite Its Pledges, Shell Funded Anti-Climate Lobbying Last Year
Royal Dutch Shell vowed last September to reach net-zero carbon pollution in its business by 2050. The goal was vague...
Nearly 60% of Americans Support A $15/Hour Minimum Living Wage
The idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos...
Manhattan DA Cy Vance Has Trump’s Taxes
Donald Trump’s taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.’s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court...
Workers find power in Fight for $15 movement
In the latest worker-led national day of action, low-wage fast food, restaurant, and grocery store workers held day-long strikes across...
Legislative Proposal to End ‘Runaway Tax Evasion’ by US Millionaires and Billionaires
Congressman Ro Khanna on Thursday unveiled legislation to help the Internal Revenue Service “put an end to runaway tax evasion...
AOC raised $1 million for the people of Texas while Ted Cruz was jetting-off to Cancun
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and right wing extremists Erick Erickson, Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, and Donald Trump, Jr., all thought there was nothing...
Dallas billionaire natural gas producer watches profits soar as Texans freeze
Record cold temperatures combined with widespread power outages have brought considerable misery to millions of Texas residents. But one person...
Biden Administration Reviews Trump’s Assaults on America’s Natural Treasures
The Biden administration says it has begun reaching out to elected officials, Native American tribes and other stakeholders as part...
Trump’s Sec. of State Mike Pompeo spent over $10,000 in taxpayer funds on engraved pens
Now that a Democratic president, Joe Biden, is in the White House, Republicans have suddenly rediscovered fiscal conservatism and concern...
Biden moves swiftly to protect workers’ rights
Time and again over the past few years, as he fought to protect his coworkers at Bobcat’s North Dakota plant,...
Big Oil runs disinformation ads about climate change on Twitter
If Donald Trump’s presidency was good for one thing, it was waking Americans up to the threat of disinformation. We...
Warren To Immediately Introduce Wealth Tax Bill
Nearly one year after suspending a presidential campaign that she built on the idea of a national wealth tax, Sen....
U.S. ‘Anti-Science’ Movement Sacrificed ‘Tens Of Thousands’ Of Lives To COVID: Medical Expert
An “unprecedented politicization” of science in America over the last five years has resulted in “tens of thousands” of needless...
How Rural America Is Reaping Economic Development Benefits from the Growth of Renewables
Despite a turbulent start to the 2020s, an important and positive message for rural America is emerging in the decade...
Biden Aims to Replace Federal Auto Fleet With Electric Vehicles
President Joe Biden said on Monday that internal combustion cars and trucks in the federal government’s existing vehicle fleet will...
Child tax credit in Biden-Harris COVID-19 relief plan would boost millions of kids out of poverty
The Biden-Harris plan for COVID-19 relief contains a lot of good stuff tucked into it, like this: a child tax...
Biden Orders on Food Aid Heralded as ‘Most Significant Anti-Hunger Actions in Modern Times’
Social justice organizations and Democratic lawmakers on Friday welcomed President Joe Biden’s expected executive actions boosting federal food aid as...
Biden Calls for $15 Federal Minimum Wage With Pandemic Relief Package
With more than a third of households struggling to afford basic needs such as food and rent, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a...
Mitch McConnell Blocks Immediate Vote On $2,000 Stimulus Checks
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately vote on $2,000 stimulus checks....
Wilbur Ross is the Ebenezer Scrooge of the Trump administration
The comparisons between Charles Dickens’ miserly, Christmas-hating curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet flow fast and...
Trump Back At Mar-A-Lago, Raising Taxpayer Golf Tab To $151.5 Million
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
After Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion in Wealth, Says Sanders, It Is Not ‘Radical’ to Demand More $1,200 Stimulus Checks
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
Fascist Rupert Murdoch Gets COVID-19 Shot While Profiting Off Vaccine Misinformation
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul behind Fox News, received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, even as hosts on his network...
Warren Urges Raise in Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour for Federal Contract Workers
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday urged President-elect Joe Biden to use his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for...
New York Becomes The First State To Divest From Oil And Gas
New York state announced plans on Wednesday to eject oil and gas stocks from its $226 billion financial portfolio, becoming...
Argentina Approves Tax on Millionaires to Fund COVID-19 Recovery
Lawmakers in Argentina on Friday approved a new one-time levy on the country’s richest citizens to raise money to address...
Trump Launches Last-Minute Attack on Social Security With Rule Aiming to Restrict Disability Benefits
Just weeks away from relinquishing power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault...
Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Favor Raising Taxes on Incomes Over $400K
A compelling majority of Americans favor raising taxes on people who make more than $400,000 per year, according to a...
McConnell Pushes for ‘3-Martini Lunch’ Deduction and Zero Relief for 26 Million Hungry Americans
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for pushing a coronavirus relief measure that contains a...
