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...
Category: Politics
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...
How Mitch McConnell and the do-nothing Republican senators serve the will of Trump and GOP fat cats: Robert Reich
Led by the self-proclaimed Grim Reaper, the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to take up nearly 400 bills passed by the...
Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency – that should set off alarms: Robert Reich
We haven’t seen his name on any of the ballots in the first four states, but that’s about to change....
Trump ‘described an imagined economic record and he pretended it was real’ during SOTU speech: fact checker
During his State of the Union address this Tuesday night, President Trump touted the strong economic winds currently blowing around...
Elizabeth Warren Slams Moderate Rivals, Defends Progressive Vision
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Elizabeth Warren lashed out Thursday at her moderate Democratic rivals seeking the White House, accusing them...
Poll Finds That Even Most Republicans Back Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax
New polling results released Friday find broad support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax, with Americans across most demographic...
Robert Reich: Republicans and even some Democrats are out to scare you about Medicare for All
The typical American family now spends $6,000 on health insurance premiums each year. Add in the co-payments and deductibles that...
Bernie Sanders says Bloomberg’s moves toward 2020 bid shows ‘billionaire class is scared’
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday night that America’s billionaire class is “scared,” and rightly so, after numerous outlets reported that...
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Holding Secret Meetings With Conservatives
According to a new report by Politico, and confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg himself, the Facebook CEO has been secretly meeting...
The Corporate Media Owes Al Gore an Apology
I remember when Gore stood before Congress and gaveled in the proceedings that certified his election loss. He was repeatedly...
Shell Oil Made Workers Attend Trump Event By Threatening Not To Pay Them
Shell officials in Beaver County, PA gave workers a choice, they could either attend Trump’s event or not be paid...
Former Republican consultant busts party as racists who want tax cuts for the rich
In a furious tweetstorm, a former adviser to the Ohio Republican Party expressed disgust at how far the GOP has...
NRA Gives Mitch McConnell $1.6 Million To Block Expanded Background Checks
If you’re wondering why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to advance a bipartisan bill to expand background checks...
House Republicans Prove Again They Don’t Want You To Have Health Care
Last week, House Republicans were given yet another opportunity to separate themselves from Donald Trump’s lawsuit to destroy the Affordable...
Trump’s Rust Belt Revival Fraud Is Killing Him In Wisconsin, Michigan, And Pennsylvania
Trump promised a manufacturing revival in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but after losing manufacturing jobs, voters in those states look...
Republicans Take $400K From Casino Mogul Accused Of Sexual Assault
The national Republican Party has accepted nearly $400,000 in donations from disgraced ex-casino mogul Steve Wynn — a move that...
Heath Insurance Industry Tries To Buy Off Democrats To Stop Medicare For All
According to a new analysis by Think Progress, healthcare groups are ramping up their spending and giving to Democrats on...
The Republican party is the political arm of the fossil fuel industry
For Republicans, the climate crisis is a joke. On Tuesday in the Senate, Mike Lee, a Republican senator for Utah,...
Billionaire Howard Schultz is no patriot: Robert Reich
America is the only place in the world where any citizen over the age of 35 can run for president....
AOC Exposes The Dark Side Of Politics In 5 Incredible Minutes
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) exposed some of the biggest flaws and loopholes in campaign finance laws this week ― and she...
Progressive Democrats Attempt to Resurrect FDR’s Second Bill Of Rights
Most Americans do not realize it but January 11th 2019 marks 75 years since President Rosevelt, proposed free college education,...
American democracy seems rigged because it is: Robert Reich
The most important thing we must do to save our democracy is get big money out of politics. It’s a...
The GOP Reboots Its Old Tax and Budget Scam
Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode...
Koch Brother’s Attempt to Upend Democracy & Make Americans Pay for the Damage
This is a story of how a small group of wealthy white men can hijack an entire nation, destroy its...
Boycott Urged After San Francisco Giants Owner Donates to Neo-Confederate Candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith
SAN FRANCISCO — A civil rights attorney is calling for a boycott of the San Francisco Giants after the baseball team’s...
Major Victory for a Million Workers: Minimum Wage Increases Pass in Arkansas and Missouri
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
Trump’s acting attorney general involved in outfit that scammed veterans out of life savings
Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their...
Three states just voted to expand Medicaid and give more than 300,000 people health care
Residents in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday, granting health coverage...
Gov. Scott Walker, who rose to prominence attacking teachers unions, unseated by a former teacher
Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin’s state superintendent of public education and a former teacher, won the governor’s race against incumbent Scott...
National TV News Stations Drop the Ball on GOP Georgia Voter Suppression
Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is blocking the voter registrations of tens of thousands of...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Proposal to Go After Washington DC’s Culture of Corruption
We are in the midst of a corruption crisis. In the past few weeks alone, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney,...
Vote Against Teacher Pay Comes Back to Bite Six More Oklahoma Republicans
Six more Oklahoma state House Republicans lost their primary run-offs on Tuesday after having voted against raising taxes to give teachers their...
New ‘Medicare for All’ House Caucus Formed to Promote Single Payer Healthcare
A large group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives established a new “Medicare for All” caucus on Thursday morning. This...
Senate Report Finds Russia Used the Corrupt NRA to Help Elect Trump
The Senate Judiciary Committee released hundreds of transcripts and details from its investigation into the infamous June 2016 meeting at...
Trump’s Erratic Behavior Rekindles Theories About Untreated Neurosyphilis
The cause of Donald Trump’s erratic behavior has been the subject of rampant speculation for years. Some have pointed to the hair-loss drug...
‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon and the White Supremacist Mercer Family Caught Rigging Elections Worldwide
For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the...
Biggest Koch Whore In Congress Is New US Secretary Of State
Of all the congressional representatives who have suckled themselves at the breast of the Koch brothers and their friends, Mike...
Now Republicans Are Threatening to Blow Up Children’s Health Care: Paul Krugman
Back in the depths of the Cold War, people used to talk about “doomsday machines,” devices that could destroy the...
Trump Sets A Shocking Record For Laziness By Taking 4 Times More Vacation Days Than Obama
As 2017 draws to a close, Donald Trump has blown the record for presidential first year vacation days out of...
Mentally Destroyed Trump Is Spending His Days Laying In Bed, Watching TV, and Tweeting
As president, Trump is a sloth who is spending 4-8 hours a day laying in bed, watching TV, or tweeting....
