‘Incredible’: Covid Stimulus Funds Reduced Overall US Poverty in 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing spike in unemployment, poverty in the U.S. declined by roughly 2.6% from 2019 to...
Category: Politics
So-Called Democratic “Moderates” Are Actually Right-Wingers Who Have Always Thrown Up Roadblocks to Social Progress
The U.S. is the only liberal-democratic country in the world with a political system set up for two mainstream parties,...
Manchin Pretends Exxon Does Not Lead Him Around By The Nose
Dana Bash proved surprisingly effective in making West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin sweat this morning, when throwing charges of being...
Economist Paul Krugman: Corporations refusing to pay taxes for climate change programs is ‘unforgivable’
While the United States’ west coast was battling wildfires on September 1, the Northeastern Corridor suffered tornadoes, torrential rainfall and...
54 Members of Congress (All Democrats) Push for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer this week, 54 members of Congress called for...
Secret IRS files reveal how much the ultrawealthy gained by shaping Trump’s ‘big, beautiful tax cut’
In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen....
Republican Millionaires’ Caucus Wants To Keep Their Trump Tax Cuts
A new analysis by the government watchdog group Accountable.US finds that two-thirds of GOP senators—and more than 40% of House...
Democrats’ child tax credit payments will hit bank accounts soon
Back in March, when Democrats were still working to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan into law,...
Top oil lobbyist caught on tape revealing 11 senators ‘crucial’ to ExxonMobil
Channel 4 in the U.K. published a startling expose on ExxonMobil’s lobbyists who revealed the top most important U.S. Senators...
Senate Hearing: At Long Last, Audit The Pentagon
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday presided over a Senate Budget Committee hearing convened to examine waste and fraud at the...
Joe Biden’s plans would target the ultra-wealthy for more tax dollars — and they’re getting nervous
President Joe Biden has been highly critical of the corporate tax cuts of the Trump era, complaining that the Tax...
Here’s how rich mega-doners hacked US politics
Just 12 megadonors contributed roughly $1 in every 13 dollars spent on recent campaigns for federal office, as well as the...
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...
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...
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...
Right Wing Attacks On COVID-19 Relief Flop
The House of Representatives just passed their final version of the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion package aimed at ending the...
AOC raised $1 million for the people of Texas while Ted Cruz was jetting-off to Cancun
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...
U.S. ‘Anti-Science’ Movement Sacrificed ‘Tens Of Thousands’ Of Lives To COVID: Medical Expert
An “unprecedented politicization” of science in America over the last five years has resulted in “tens of thousands” of needless...
Mitch McConnell Blocks Immediate Vote On $2,000 Stimulus Checks
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately vote on $2,000 stimulus checks....
Wilbur Ross is the Ebenezer Scrooge of the Trump administration
The comparisons between Charles Dickens’ miserly, Christmas-hating curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet flow fast and...
After Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion in Wealth, Says Sanders, It Is Not ‘Radical’ to Demand More $1,200 Stimulus Checks
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
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...
Trump Launches Last-Minute Attack on Social Security With Rule Aiming to Restrict Disability Benefits
Just weeks away from relinquishing power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault...
Georgia Republican Senator David Perdue profiting off of the pandemic
GOP Sen. David Perdue has truly made a name for himself as the Senate’s ultimate pandemic profiteer. In yet another display...
As Trump’s Election Lies Continue, So Does His “Extremely Misleading” Fundraising Grift
As President Donald Trump tries to delegitimize the results of a presidential contest in which he “got his ass kicked” by making unsubstantiated claims of...
Studies Show 8 Million Forced Into Poverty Since McConnell Let Relief Expire
The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable...
Mike Pence Lied BIG LEAGUE About Trump’s Environmental Record
I just watched most of the US vice presidential debate. There were several gigantic lies that Vice President Mike Pence...
GOP Leaders on Trump Post-Election Threats: Trust Us!
Top Republicans on Thursday vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the November election,...
Dirty Louisiana Politicians Get Paid To Push Pipeline Through Black & Indigenous Communities
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
Notorious liar Trump promised a health care plan before the end of August. It never came.
President Donald Trump has long promised to release a health care plan that could replace Obamacare, but with just two months to...
Anger grows at GOP over economic pain: ‘I blame Mitch McConnell the most’
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...
Trump admitted on television he will ‘terminate’ Social Security and Medicare if he wins reelection
President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently “terminate” the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare...
Trump still trying to destroy Obamacare — a crucial lifeline during the pandemic
Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it....
Anger With GOP Growing as $600 Unemployment Benefit Lapses
Americans angry with inaction from Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump on extending $600 a week unemployment benefits are accusing the...
A Majority Of People In The US Say The Federal Gov’t Should Do More About Climate
The US federal government should be doing a whole lot more to reduce the impacts of climate change. Those are the findings...
Trump’s new coronavirus vaccine czar owns $10 million in stock options in company developing vaccine
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million...
‘Criminal negligence’: Trump officials ignored company’s offer to make 7 million N95 masks per month
Progressives on Saturday denounced an “infuriating” report which detailed the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to take an American company...
Facebook’s Double Standard on Political Ads
The Lincoln Project, a super PAC run by Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, contacted Facebook to push the social...
Coal Industry Seeks Cuts to Payments for Miners With Black Lung Amid Pandemic
Some of the largest coal companies in the United States are using the coronavirus crisis to pressure Congress to slash...
How the Republicans are stealing everything for the 1 percent
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
Right-Wing Austerity Set New Orleans Up to Be a Coronavirus Disaster
New Orleans — Back in 1997, when Steve Scalise was a Louisiana state representative, he joined other right-wing lawmakers in...
Under Cover of Pandemic, Trump’s NLRB Moves to Make Unionizing ‘Nearly Impossible for Workers’
The National Labor Relations Board finalized a rule this week that critics warn could make unionizing “nearly impossible for workers” at a moment when...
Republican’s sabotaged Florida’s unemployment system putting Trump’s re-election bid in jeopardy
Republicans are furious that Florida’s broken unemployment system was working exactly as former Gov. Rick Scott intended — and it...
It’s morally repulsive how corporations are exploiting this crisis. Workers will suffer: Robert Reich
Societies gripped by cataclysmic wars, depressions, or pandemics can become acutely sensitive to power and privilege. Weeks before the coronavirus...
How the coronavirus crisis revealed the danger of the decades-long conservative movement
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell smelled an evil liberal conspiracy on Thursday, one designed to steal away his decades of...
