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...
In public, Republicans have denounced Democrats’ ambitious electoral-reform bill, the For the People Act, as an unpopular partisan ploy. In...
The top 1% of the highest-earning American households are hiding 21% of their income from the Internal Revenue Service, costing...
Georgia activists are calling for a statewide boycott of Coca-Cola as part of an escalating effort to get major corporations to oppose...
A head of a subcommittee hearing on the “soaring” cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont),...
According to a new Brookings Institute study as reported by Reuters: The United States squandered both money and lives in its...
“Zoom saw its profits increase 4,000% last year,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich noted. “But, wait for it, paid no...
Images of emaciated polar bears and warnings about the dangers of a warming planet are all well and good but...
Workers at Solvay’s Pasadena, Texas, plant voted overwhelmingly to join the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2017 and looked forward to...
Bernie Sanders: I say to the Walton family of Walmart: the American people are sick and tired of subsidizing your...
President Biden cut child poverty in half with the American Rescue Plan, and he is following it up by making...
BESSEMER, Ala. ― The union election taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama is exceptional in many ways. With...
America’s billionaires have made so much money they could fund two-thirds of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) with just...
The House of Representatives just passed their final version of the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion package aimed at ending the...
There’s a lot of denial and wishful thinking in the oil and auto fields these days, but on the other...
With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part...
In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether...
Royal Dutch Shell vowed last September to reach net-zero carbon pollution in its business by 2050. The goal was vague...
The idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 from its current $7.25 is broadly popular, a Reuters/Ipsos...
Donald Trump’s taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.’s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court...
In the latest worker-led national day of action, low-wage fast food, restaurant, and grocery store workers held day-long strikes across...
Congressman Ro Khanna on Thursday unveiled legislation to help the Internal Revenue Service “put an end to runaway tax evasion...
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...
Record cold temperatures combined with widespread power outages have brought considerable misery to millions of Texas residents. But one person...
The Biden administration says it has begun reaching out to elected officials, Native American tribes and other stakeholders as part...
Now that a Democratic president, Joe Biden, is in the White House, Republicans have suddenly rediscovered fiscal conservatism and concern...
Time and again over the past few years, as he fought to protect his coworkers at Bobcat’s North Dakota plant,...
If Donald Trump’s presidency was good for one thing, it was waking Americans up to the threat of disinformation. We...
Nearly one year after suspending a presidential campaign that she built on the idea of a national wealth tax, Sen....
An “unprecedented politicization” of science in America over the last five years has resulted in “tens of thousands” of needless...
Despite a turbulent start to the 2020s, an important and positive message for rural America is emerging in the decade...
President Joe Biden said on Monday that internal combustion cars and trucks in the federal government’s existing vehicle fleet will...
The Biden-Harris plan for COVID-19 relief contains a lot of good stuff tucked into it, like this: a child tax...
Social justice organizations and Democratic lawmakers on Friday welcomed President Joe Biden’s expected executive actions boosting federal food aid as...
With more than a third of households struggling to afford basic needs such as food and rent, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately vote on $2,000 stimulus checks....
The comparisons between Charles Dickens’ miserly, Christmas-hating curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet flow fast and...
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul behind Fox News, received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, even as hosts on his network...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday urged President-elect Joe Biden to use his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for...
New York state announced plans on Wednesday to eject oil and gas stocks from its $226 billion financial portfolio, becoming...
Lawmakers in Argentina on Friday approved a new one-time levy on the country’s richest citizens to raise money to address...
Just weeks away from relinquishing power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault...
A compelling majority of Americans favor raising taxes on people who make more than $400,000 per year, according to a...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for pushing a coronavirus relief measure that contains a...