Sinema targeted over ‘morally unforgivable’ tax loophole for the rich
A group of wealthy investors and business leaders who support progressive taxation launched a campaign Tuesday aimed at pushing Sen....
A group of wealthy investors and business leaders who support progressive taxation launched a campaign Tuesday aimed at pushing Sen....
Democrats are seeking to make roads and bridges a major campaign issue ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, highlighting local...
For months, Bernie Sanders has been making a case for the multitrillion-dollar reform bill he’s spearheaded in the Senate. Now,...
Joe Manchin is perseverating about spending $3.5 trillion over 10 years for Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. “We can’t...
The $3.5 trillion dollar Build Back Better Act of 2021, in its current form, faces opposition in Congress not only...
Sen. Joe Manchin, one of a handful of Democratic lawmakers threatening to tank President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, has received...
It is no coincidence that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is often mentioned in the same sentence as Sen. Joe...
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s proposal to lop $2 trillion off his own party’s social spending and climate agenda would support...
Right now, as I’ve highlighted briefly before, there’s a hot negotiation underway between almost every other Democrat in the House...
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and progressive healthcare campaigners from across the U.S. rallied at the headquarters of Big Pharma’s...
Corporations threatened by the prospect of paying a slightly higher tax rate and exercising a little less power over working people...
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that a new congressional watchdog report showing the Pentagon failing in efforts to combat department-wide...
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing spike in unemployment, poverty in the U.S. declined by roughly 2.6% from 2019 to...
The U.S. is the only liberal-democratic country in the world with a political system set up for two mainstream parties,...
Dana Bash proved surprisingly effective in making West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin sweat this morning, when throwing charges of being...
While the United States’ west coast was battling wildfires on September 1, the Northeastern Corridor suffered tornadoes, torrential rainfall and...
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer this week, 54 members of Congress called for...
In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen....
A new analysis by the government watchdog group Accountable.US finds that two-thirds of GOP senators—and more than 40% of House...
Back in March, when Democrats were still working to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan into law,...
Channel 4 in the U.K. published a startling expose on ExxonMobil’s lobbyists who revealed the top most important U.S. Senators...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday presided over a Senate Budget Committee hearing convened to examine waste and fraud at the...
President Joe Biden has been highly critical of the corporate tax cuts of the Trump era, complaining that the Tax...
Just 12 megadonors contributed roughly $1 in every 13 dollars spent on recent campaigns for federal office, as well as the...
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Thursday called on major businesses and organizations that oppose Georgia Republicans’ new sweeping restrictions on...
In public, Republicans have denounced Democrats’ ambitious electoral-reform bill, the For the People Act, as an unpopular partisan ploy. In...
Georgia activists are calling for a statewide boycott of Coca-Cola as part of an escalating effort to get major corporations to oppose...
The House of Representatives just passed their final version of the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion package aimed at ending the...
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...
An “unprecedented politicization” of science in America over the last five years has resulted in “tens of thousands” of needless...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to immediately vote on $2,000 stimulus checks....
The comparisons between Charles Dickens’ miserly, Christmas-hating curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet flow fast and...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday urged President-elect Joe Biden to use his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for...
Just weeks away from relinquishing power to incoming President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault...
GOP Sen. David Perdue has truly made a name for himself as the Senate’s ultimate pandemic profiteer. In yet another display...
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...
The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable...
I just watched most of the US vice presidential debate. There were several gigantic lies that Vice President Mike Pence...
Top Republicans on Thursday vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the November election,...
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
President Donald Trump has long promised to release a health care plan that could replace Obamacare, but with just two months to...
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...
President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently “terminate” the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare...
Ten years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to overturn it....