Democracy or Oligarchy?
We are at a pivotal moment in American history. The major issue of our time is whether the United States...
We are at a pivotal moment in American history. The major issue of our time is whether the United States...
ALEC holds its 41st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas starting on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. At this largest of its...
Newly-obtained documents show that the billionaire Koch brothers’ political giving is much more expansive than has previously been known. In...
The 2014 elections are awash in dark money—and it’s only getting worse. The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity alone plans to...
Do you wonder which members of Congress routinely side with the richest 1 percent and Wall Street? Which lawmakers consistently...
How much are the mega rich hiding offshore? Independent analysts have been working to pin that figure down. The most...
Koch Industries is a multinational conglomerate involved in the industries of manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, and energy....
In the global discussion of human rights, impunity refers to de facto immunity from punishment enjoyed by dictators, oligarchs, and...
This is what happens when Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner and a gang of the world’s richest...
Poverty continues to be a pressing social problem– but it’s hardly mentioned on the network newscasts, according to a new...
(Reuters) – As tension over inequality simmers, persistent cash hoarding by multinationals and the super-rich may be one measure of...
A Republican state legislator in Kansas is being targeted by a new Koch-funded effort to oust those who want to...
The go-to intellectual guardians of our corporate order — those conservative analysts whose op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street...
The billionaire Koch brothers and their political network are planning to spend almost $300 million during the 2014 election cycle,...
Renewable energy took a major hit in Ohio last week. Republican Gov. John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 310,...
On Wednesday, June 11, Senate Republicans sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the...
The old adage about sticks and stones may finally apply more soundly to the rich than the poor. According to...
Four members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, have a combined wealth of close to $140 billion....
The “charitable” wing of David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has dropped nearly $900,000 on ads to boost Wisconsin Governor Scott...
On May 22, The Campaign for America’s Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was...
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense...
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
In a time of slack economic growth and high unemployment around the country, Kansas lawmakers thought they had the solution:...
WASHINGTON — Charles and David Koch are the unofficial standard-bearers of a new generation of billionaires, willing to spend immense...
The United States offers three kinds of subsidies to tycoons with private jets: accelerated tax write-offs, avoidance of personal taxes...
The Koch brothers’ main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air...
A new study that will appear in the fall 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics concludes that the United States...
Here’s a startling fact that illustrates how income inequality is changing the U.S.: The top 1 percent of Americans now...
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
In his most recent piece for the New York Times, celebrated economist Paul Krugman ponders the ways his chosen field...
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
You’ve probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you...
An oligarchy, Webster’s dictionary tells us, is “a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few...
Racist rancher and welfare cowboy Cliven Bundy got some help from an unexpected quarter over the weekend, as a far...
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
The claim that America is riven by class conflict may come as a surprise to people who like to think...
Since Ronald Reagan’s “supply-side” tax cuts for the rich – followed by other giveaways like eliminating the “death tax” so...
April 15, Washington – As hardworking Americans file their taxes today, it’s a good time to be reminded that ordinary...
At 79, Graef “Bud” Crystal is the grand old man of executive compensation critics. Once a top compensation consultant, he...
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is taking aim at the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to eliminate the limit on...
Extreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from reality — and simultaneously gives...
Charles and David Koch hit a milestone on Wednesday, as a $1.3 billion boost to their collective fortune sent their...