Rep. Katie Porter eviscerates pharma CEO with a math lesson about his $13 million salary
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Instead of adhering to congressional intent by building up the nation’s inadequate supply of N95 masks and other equipment to combat the...
Top Republicans on Thursday vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the November election,...
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
Millions of children across the United States are already going hungry amid the economic recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Analysis released Thursday of the world’s top 10 biggest plastic polluters in 15 countries reveals how major corporations hide behind...
Joining the trend of city, county, and state governments trying to make polluters pay for their significant contributions to the...
After Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to pass the so-called “skinny” coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health,...
President Trump is a threat not just to America, but to the planet. I’m not talking about his radicalization of...
LAKESIDE, Calif. — This is America: a family crammed in a minivan driving mile after mile across San Diego County,...
President Donald Trump has long promised to release a health care plan that could replace Obamacare, but with just two months to...
With jobless Americans growing increasingly desperate and furious at congressional Republicans for skipping town for summer recess without approving Covid-19 relief, House Speaker Nancy...
A lobby group representing oil and chemical companies, including Shell, Exxon, Total, DuPont and Dow, has been pushing the Trump...
Days after the payroll processor for the federal government—one of the nation’s largest employers—announced it would implement President Donald Trump’s plan...
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 stock index hit a record high. The next day, Apple became the first U.S. company...
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America...
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors...
When he isn’t writing his New York Times column, Paul Krugman often addresses economic matters on Twitter. The liberal economist,...
During the coronavirus crisis, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has stressed that he has no interest in “bailing out” blue...
Cruz Santos thought her life was finally turning around in early March when she found a job at a shoe...
President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently “terminate” the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare...
When Congress passed the CARES Act earlier this year, lawmakers gave some low-wage Americans who lost their jobs an income...
Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it....
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Americans angry with inaction from Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump on extending $600 a week unemployment benefits are accusing the...
The US federal government should be doing a whole lot more to reduce the impacts of climate change. Those are the findings...
A report released Wednesday by a new nonprofit—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the resulting economic disaster, and calls...
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reported a COVID-19 death count of more than 148,000 for the United States, which has...
Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday introduced a bill to eliminate fossil fuel...
Donald Trump and his cohort of propagandists at Fox News would have us believe the major cities of the United States have...
Shortly after publicly ditching one attack on Social Security — the payroll tax cut — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed Thursday...
While President Trump faces bruising poll numbers amid the coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis, his family business continues making money off his...
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
Green groups celebrated a “resounding victory for taxpayers, public health, and the environment” late Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from...
In a new book, Mary Trump — the president’s niece — describes Donald Trump as a “sociopath” who grew up...
With Covid-19 pandemic surging in regions across the United States, progressive activists plan to spotlight the president’s “reckless and deadly”...
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon...
With the Senate preparing to vote on an annual defense policy bill calling for $740.5 billion in military spending for...
It’s understandable that women, many of whom are overtaxed in this crisis with jobs, full-time child care and vulnerable elderly...
A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions of dollars in funding from major US corporations such as CitiGroup and...
In 2011, a ground-breaking report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on oil pollution in Ogoniland highlighted the devastating impact of the...
Outdoor clothing company The North Face became the highest-profile brand to join the #StopHateforProfit movement, which encourages large advertisers to...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cariol Horne, who was fired from the Buffalo Police Department in 2008 after stopping a fellow officer...
Ready for a dollop of good news in an otherwise bleak world? A movement begun by high school students in...