Biden targets big tech in executive order aimed at anti-competitive practices
Joe Biden has signed an executive order targeting anti-competitive practices across the economy that could have major ramifications for America’s...
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Elizabeth Warren grills JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon over overdraft fees
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., grilled J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday, calling claims that...
Katie Porter Confronts Big Pharma CEO And Destroys The Lie Behind High Drug Costs
Rep. Porter broke down how much money Big Pharma companies spend to make money and said, “So, Mr. Gonzales, you’re...
Sanders, Omar Unveil Bill to End ‘Absurd Corporate Handouts’ to Fossil Fuel Industry
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced legislation Thursday that would eliminate dozens of tax loopholes, subsidies, and other...
Ossoff Urges Businesses To Stop Donating To GA GOP Over Voting Restrictions
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Thursday called on major businesses and organizations that oppose Georgia Republicans’ new sweeping restrictions on...
Biden Administration Takes Out The Trump Trash By Getting Rid Of 40 Trump EPA Appointees
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan has dismissed more than 40 key science advisers appointed by former President Donald Trump, a move...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Progressives Demand McConnell ‘Get Serious’ About Coronavirus Relief
After Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s attempt to pass the so-called “skinny” coronavirus relief plan—prioritizing corporations over the health,...
‘For a Greener Future’: Omar, Sanders Lead Bill to End Destructive Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels
Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday introduced a bill to eliminate fossil fuel...
‘Trump Death Clock’ Headed to DC
With Covid-19 pandemic surging in regions across the United States, progressive activists plan to spotlight the president’s “reckless and deadly”...
Minnesota Sues Exxon, Koch, American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon...
Sanders Unveils Amendment to Slash Bloated Pentagon Budget
With the Senate preparing to vote on an annual defense policy bill calling for $740.5 billion in military spending for...
The North Face Joins Civil Rights Boycott Urging Brands To Pull Facebook Ads
Outdoor clothing company The North Face became the highest-profile brand to join the #StopHateforProfit movement, which encourages large advertisers to...
Former Buffalo Officer Says ‘Cariol’s Law’ Could Stem Police Brutality
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cariol Horne, who was fired from the Buffalo Police Department in 2008 after stopping a fellow officer...
Groups Challenge Financial Sector to ‘End Support for Fossil Fuels and Climate Chaos’
Ahead of oil and gas giant ExxonMobil’s virtual annual shareholders meeting Wednesday morning, scores of international climate, human rights, faith, and Indigenous...
Hundreds Of McDonald’s Workers Strike Over Company’s Response To Coronavirus
McDonald’s workers in 20 cities nationwide went on strike Wednesday, protesting against the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and...
Essential Sanitary Workers Strike for Hazard Pay and PPE in New Orleans
The severe outbreak of COVID-19 in southern Louisiana was the last straw for a group of sanitation workers who pick...
Nobel laureates condemn harassment of environmental lawyer
Twenty-nine Nobel laureates have condemned alleged “judicial harassment” by Chevron and urged the release of a US environmental lawyer who...
Elizabeth Warren Slams Moderate Rivals, Defends Progressive Vision
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Elizabeth Warren lashed out Thursday at her moderate Democratic rivals seeking the White House, accusing them...
Robert Reich: Billionaires fear Warren and Sanders – but they should fear us all
Billionaires are wailing that wealth tax proposals by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are attacks on free-market capitalism. Warren “vilifies...
Democrats Take Aim at ‘Trust Fund Babies’ With Estate Tax Designed to Combat Wealth Inequality
California Congressman Jimmy Gomez on Friday introduced legislation in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House that aims to address “our country’s rapidly...
Warren Unveils “Most Sweeping Set of Anti-Corruption Reforms Since Watergate”
Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with...
David Cay Johnston: Here’s how the super rich avoid paying taxes — and what we can do about it
Our investigative series The Koch Papers illustrates many deep problems in America’s creaky, century-old income tax system, especially how our...
Stopping The Koch Brothers’ Agenda In Arizona
You may recall that a few weeks ago, a Koch brothers’ spokeswoman announced that their network is now willing to...
New York City sues Big Oil
New York’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced that the city is suing five fossil fuel companies for damages over...
New York Teachers Fight for Divestment From Prison Industry
Teachers in Rochester, New York, recently discovered, to their horror, that their pensions are invested in the private prison and...
Bernie Sanders Went To Walmart’s Shareholder Meeting To Demand A $15 Minimum Wage
Walmart’s shareholder meeting drew some star power on Wednesday, just not the kind the retailer was hoping for. Sen. Bernie...
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez returns to bartending to promote fair wages
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took lunch orders, served pizza and rocked the cocktail shaker on Friday...
Bernie Sanders Demands That Walmart Raise Poverty Wages
Bernie Sanders, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, is preparing to gatecrash Walmart’s annual meeting to demand the world’s biggest retailer...
Ocasio-Cortez backs CEO into a corner over why he charges Americans $2000 for drug that costs $8 in Australia
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday cornered the CEO of biotech firm Gilead Sciences about why his company charges nearly...
Ocasio-Cortez calls out GOP for attacking Green New Deal as ‘socialism’ while bankrolling Big Oil with billions in subsidies
During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Republicans for attacking the Green New Deal...
Warren Unveils Bill to Punish Criminal CEOs
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation Wednesday that would make it easier to imprison corporate executives whose companies commit crimes...
Airport workers ‘shut down the shutdown’ — and that should scare Trump: Robert Reich
While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is getting much-deserved for her handling of the shutdown President Donald Trump instigated...
How workers are winning $15 an hour: by acting like a union
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
Scientists stand behind youth climate activists in support of Green New Deal
Rachel Gold, an earth sciences student at Brown University, has been too busy with her research into signs of abrupt climate...
Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Exceeds $8 Trillion
Writing in The Guardian this week, Bill McKibben, the tireless climate activist and founder of 350.org, reports this bit of good news...
Boycott Urged After San Francisco Giants Owner Donates to Neo-Confederate Candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith
SAN FRANCISCO — A civil rights attorney is calling for a boycott of the San Francisco Giants after the baseball team’s...
Gov. Scott Walker, who rose to prominence attacking teachers unions, unseated by a former teacher
Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin’s state superintendent of public education and a former teacher, won the governor’s race against incumbent Scott...
Human Rights Group Calls For Investigation Of Giuliani, Trump Money-Laundering
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is now reporting that an international human rights organization has requested that prosecutors in The Netherlands open...
Senator Bernie Sanders: Trump ‘Lying About Medicare for All’
In reaction to President Donald Trump’s op-ed on Wednesday—titled, “Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan will demolish promises to seniors“—Sen. Bernie...
Why We Need to See Trump’s Tax Returns
Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went frombeing dubbed...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Proposal to Go After Washington DC’s Culture of Corruption
We are in the midst of a corruption crisis. In the past few weeks alone, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney,...
Pope Francis, Bill McKibben, & Poor People’s Campaign Address Climate Change
Writing in The Guardian this week, climate activist Bill McKibben suggests the world may miss its last realistic opportunity to...
Young People Are Leading a Growing Movement Against Low Pay
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
