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...
Category: Politics
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...
Democrats Demand Funds for Underfunded Labor Board
As labor uprisings heat up and spread across the country, a group of House Democrats is calling for an increase...
Billionaire Peltz draws GOP megadonors to $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for “Democrat” Sen. Joe Manchin
Wall Street veteran Nelson Peltz hosted a $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for Sen. Joe Manchin at the billionaire’s sprawling Florida estate last...
Despite Big Oil Roadblocks, Poll Shows Majority in US Support Climate Action
A survey published Monday shows that most adults in the U.S. support six proposals to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that lead...
In Jab at Manchin, Sanders Demands ‘Strategic Pause’ in Corporate Welfare
Repurposing a phrase right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin recently used to obstruct social spending and climate legislation, Sen. Bernie Sanders...
Biden Administration Proposes Obamacare Tweak That Could Help 1.2 Million
The Biden administration is proposing a major policy change that it believes will help 200,000 uninsured Americans get comprehensive health plans while making coverage...
It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation...
Joe Manchin Coal Conflict Of Interest Is Dangerous For The Planet
He has been a one-person barrier against climate action, serving as a US Democrat while manipulating climate legislation alongside most...
Katie Porter Takes Her Whiteboard To House Medicare For All Hearing
Progressive U.S. lawmakers, public health advocates, and universal healthcare campaigners testified Tuesday at the first congressional hearing on Medicare for All legislation...
Biden’s 2023 Budget Includes a 20 Percent Billionaire Minimum Income Tax
On Monday, the White House unveiled President Joe Biden’s 2023 budget proposal, which includes a minimum tax on the nation’s...
How Joe Manchin got rich using his ‘political influence’ to benefit the coal industry: report
Donald Trump drew a great deal of criticism from environmentalists and Democrats when he displayed his “Trump digs coal” signs...
Fonda Launches Climate PAC to Break Big Oil’s ‘Stranglehold’ on US Politicians
Vowing to “do whatever it takes to defeat the political allies of the fossil fuel industry, no matter which side of...
Democrats Introduce Windfall Tax on Big Oil
Congressional Democrats on Thursday introduced the bicameral Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax to target price gouging by profit-gorging fossil fuel companies...
