Musk’s DOGE Goons Accused of Breaking Into Peace Agency Building
A tiny U.S. agency tasked with defusing violent conflicts abroad found itself on the losing end of a days-long standoff...
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DOGE is taking a wrecking ball to Social Security
DOGE is taking its wrecking ball to the Social Security Administration, the agency responsible for overseeing retirement and disability benefits for...
Tesla Sales Plummet in Germany Amid Musk’s Support for Neo-Nazi AfD Party
“Limiting yourself to AfD supporters as customers comes at a cost it seems,” said one Germany-based political scientist on Wednesday,...
Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties
Climate science deniers from a US-based thinktank have been working with rightwing politicians in Europe to campaign against environmental policies,...
Trump Reneges on Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices
Trump loves to talk about groceries. “The word grocery,” he said with a childlike sense of wonder during an event...
Paul Krugman: ‘Trump’s biggest con’ of all
Economist Paul Krugman argues in a Monday, October 28 New York Times column that Donald Trump’s “biggest, potentially most consequential...
New Poll: Overwhelming Support for US Clean Energy Incentives (Including Trump Voters)
Nearly 9 in 10 American voters support federal clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), according to...
Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study
The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes...
Trump failed to cap insulin costs. Now, he’s mad Biden got it done.
Trump’s time in the White House saw no changes to the staggering cost of insulin for patients, and it was...
To Defend Social Security and Medicare From Trump, Seniors Endorse Biden
Three leading groups representing the interests of senior citizens made clear Wednesday they believe that Democratic President Joe Biden is...
Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1 billion
Donald dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they...
President Biden cancels nearly $6 billion in student debt for public service workers
Nearly 80,000 public service workers — including teachers, nurses and firefighters — will have roughly $6 billion in student loans...
Trump just opened the door to Social Security cuts
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslim immigration to the United States, the targeted...
Economist Paul Krugman: ‘Millions of Americans’ will lose healthcare if Trump wins
The United States remains the only major developed country that lacks universal healthcare. But thanks to the Affordable Care Act...
‘Donald Trump Is a Scab’: UAW Endorses Joe Biden for President
After a monthslong delay partly related to electric vehicle policy, the United Auto Workers on Wednesday endorsed Democratic U.S. President...
Governor Newsom Stands Up To Big Oil
In a strong move to hold oil companies responsible for the economic and public health dangers of oil wells left...
Pharma lobby furious over wildly popular effort to curb drug prices
Predictably, the pharmaceutical lobby responded with outrage on Tuesday after the Biden administration took its first, modest step toward directly...
82% of Voters Oppose GOP Push to Cut Social Security for Americans Under 50
The vast majority of U.S. voters across the political spectrum don’t support Republican proposals to gut Social Security benefits for...
US Republicans oppose climate funding as millions suffer in extreme weather
Swaths of the US are baking under record-breaking heat, yet some lawmakers are still attempting to block any spending to...
Inflation Reduction Act Already Lowering US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
For those of us following the cleantech industry closely, we already know this: the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is...
Red state ‘welfare queen’ oligarchs accused of mooching off of blue states
America is rapidly bifurcating — becoming two nations — and one of the main drivers of the process is a...
Newly obtained documents shed light on a vast and corrupt right-wing influence network
Newly obtained documents show that the billion-dollar trust fund given to Leonard Leo — the right-wing attorney and longtime leader...
74 Percent of Voters Support Raising Federal Minimum Wage to $20 an Hour
New polling reveals that a majority of Americans recognize the growing crisis of low teacher pay and poor treatment despite...
Watch: Bernie Sanders blasts Starbucks CEO for ‘waging’ a ‘vicious and illegal union-busting campaign’
On Wednesday morning, March 29, the Senate HELP Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) held a hearing of Starbucks’ labor...
Kevin McCarthy Attempts To Blame Biden For Bank Failures McCarthy Helped Cause
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy plans to blame President Biden for the Silicon Valley Bank failure, even though he...
Democrats Dismiss Solvency Fearmongering While Offering Social Security Fix
Following a dramatic State of the Union moment in which President Joe Biden called out Republican proposals to slash Social...
While Ron DeSantis Is Fighting Culture Wars, Millions Of Floridians Are Losing Their Health Care
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis keeps making news with his self-described campaign to fight “woke” ideology. The latest headlines came about...
Chuck Schumer And Hakeem Jeffries Rip GOP’s National Sales Tax Plan Disaster
Majority Leader Schumer said, “It’s very important, first, to make sure this plan dies, as I said. The right wing...
Manchin-Romney attack on Social Security is ‘last thing we need’: Sanders
Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday slammed right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s widely panned proposal to explore slashing Social Security...
Advocacy groups, lawmakers call out Big Oils’ clean energy lies
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform released findings from an investigation into Big Oil companies showing that giants like...
Senator Raphael Warnock’s re-election is a victory for Social Security
Social Security was on the ballot in Georgia’s December 6 run-off election. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock’s re-election is a win...
Watch Katie Porter Explain What’s Really Driving Inflation
During a House hearing this week, Katie Porter interviewed Mike Konczal, a director at the Roosevelt Institute, the progressive economic...
Republicans want working-class voters — without actually supporting workers
After years of struggle, America’s labor unions enjoy greater public approval than at any time in more than 50 years....
Why is trickle-down economics still with us?
Within weeks of taking office, Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, and her chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, proposed...
California’s newest law is historic progress for fast food workers
On Labor Day morning, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 257, regulating fast food workers’ rights. The bill, otherwise known...
Democrats Target Big Oil for Stifling Free Speech to Block Climate Action
Civil libertarians applauded Wednesday as a U.S. congressional committee held a hearing to “examine how the fossil fuel industry is...
Many politicians are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators
As students return to the classroom, school districts across the country are facing a historic number of teacher vacancies – an estimated 300,000,...
Republican senators blasted by constituents for opposing $35 insulin cap
On Sunday, August 7, the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a $750 billion package addressing energy, climate...
Since 2021, Big Oil has spent over $200 million to sabotage climate action
The oil and gas industry, one of the most powerful corporate forces in American politics, has spent more than $200...
‘This Will Save Lives’: California Answers Insulin Crisis With Plan to Make Its Own
Healthcare advocates on Thursday cheered an announcement that California will take on Big Pharma greed and the insulin affordability crisis...
GOP Led States Attempting to Use Covid Relief Funds to Provide Tax Cuts for the Rich
Republican leaders in nearly two dozen U.S. states are attempting—potentially in violation of federal law—to use coronavirus relief funds approved...
GOP-appointed justices make combating climate crisis much harder
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, a variety of observers took note of the lengthy and methodical...
Senator Sanders pushes for windfall profits tax on Big Oil
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday slammed oil companies for raking in huge profits on the backs of U.S. consumers and...
Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills
In a private meeting last month with big-money donors, the head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit...
Sanders Says Stop Busting People for Marijuana and Start ‘Prosecuting Crooks on Wall Street’
Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested Friday that instead of bringing the weight of the criminal justice system down on marijuana users,...
Progressives Slam ‘Phony’ Manchin for Pushing Lower Drug Prices After Killing BBB
Progressives within and beyond Congress took aim at Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday after the West Virginia Democrat infamous for...
Robert Reich: America’s billionaire class is funding anti-democratic forces
Decades ago, America’s monied interests bankrolled a Republican establishment that believed in fiscal conservatism, anti-communism and constitutional democracy. Today’s billionaire...
Republicans Vote Against Gas Price Gouging Bill
In a fairly close House vote on Thursday, a Democratic bill cracking down on price gouging by the energy industry...
Sanders blasts Senate’s ‘strange priorities’ as it advances corporate welfare
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blasted the warped priorities of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the Democratic-controlled chamber moved to...
