The End of Big Money in Elections? 6 Reasons to Think So
This year’s presidential election is projected to be the most expensive in U.S. history. As of this writing, more $127 million...
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Harry Reid Exposes The Koch Brother’s Obstructionism
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is not impressed with Republican senators right now. Reid, a staunch believer in old...
Bernie Sanders: Republicans Are One Conservative Supreme Court Justice Away From Gutting Organized Labor
Bernie Sanders used labor’s victory in a deadlocked Supreme Court case to stand with America’s workers and warn that Republicans...
Trump Supporter Giuliani Reveals Himself To Be A Mussolini-Type Fascist
STEVE DOOCY (HOST): In the wake of the Brussels attack, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump both agree that maybe there...
Sucking-up to the Billionaire Class Not Enough to Save Marco Rubio
In the final days of his presidential campaign, Marco Rubio took on a noble, elegiac tone, presenting himself as the...
Paul Krugman: Clash of Republican Con Artists
So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy...
A Handful of Billionaires Are Trying To Buy The White House
A small group of billionaires is trying very hard to buy the presidency. They want to buy the White House...
Warren: Republicans Do Their Best To Protect Corporate Criminals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren shamed Republicans on the Senate floor for perpetuating the already problematic rigged legal system that protects corporate...
Greed-head Billionaire Steve Wynn Now Supports Fellow Billionaire Donald Trump
It’s very odd, as a resident of Las Vegas, to see Steve Wynn making nice to Donald J. Trump of...
Right-Winger David Brooks Thinks Oligarchs Should Be Running The Country
Like many establishment Republicans, the conservative columnist for The New York Times sees the barbarians pouring through the gates and fears...
Bernie Sanders Calls Out “Pathological Liar” Trump For Lying About His Tax Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ripped Donald Trump apart after the billionaire lied about the Sanders tax plan. At the...
Investigation Reveals That A Few Wealthy Families Are Attempting To Buy American Democracy
According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and...
House Republicans Accused of Harassing Climate Scientists
Leading scientists have accused a Republican-led committee of subjecting climate researchers to politically motivated “harassment” amid an increasingly fractious investigation...
Bernie Sanders: “People Are Not Truly Free When they are Unable to Feed Their Family”
Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at Georgetown University on Thursday afternoon to address his political stance as a Democratic Socialist. His...
Legacy of Failure: 9 of 12 States With Highest Unemployment Are Run By Republican Governors
New state unemployment statistics revealed that the fastest way to sink an economy is to vote for Republican candidates. According...
President Obama Against Effort To Block White-Collar Crime Prosecutions
The White House is not happy about language on corporate crime that the House Judiciary Committee approved on Wednesday as...
Congressional Republicans want to make it harder to go after corporate criminals
Not one Wall Street executive was criminally charged following the 2008 global financial collapse, and if the Koch brothers and House...
Paul Krugman: Republican Candidates’ Espouse Wacko, Ayn Rand-Inspired Economic Doctrine
Crackpot economic theories are now the norm in the Republican party, as we saw in Tuesday’s debate. Huge tax cuts...
Republicans Determined to Deregulate Wall Street Again
On Tuesday night, one Republican presidential hopeful after another lined up to offer coded oaths of fealty to Wall Street...
Billion Dollar Baby Donald Trump Says Wages Are Too High
In case you thought it was a gaffe last night during the debate, asked this morning whether he would support...
Sanders: Republicans Are Un-American Cowards For Trying To Suppress The Vote
At the First in the South Presidential Candidates Forum with Rachel Maddow in South Carolina, Bernie Sanders blasted Republicans as...
How Marco Rubio became the plutocrats’ favorite candidate
The Sunday shows yesterday featured pretty much nothing but Republicans rehashing their debate and celebrating the ascension of Paul Ryan...
Republican Scott Walker Signs Bill to Prohibit Investigations Into Bribery and Political Corruption
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed a bill on Friday that’s designed to prohibit certain investigations into bribery and political...
Congressional Republicans Target Scientists For Harassment and Intimidation
Science is broadly defined as a systematic enterprise that gathers, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations...
Kochs Have Their Tentacles Firmly In Wisconsin Through Their Puppet Scott Walker
Starting today, three bills are being rammed through the Wisconsin legislature that will put the final nails in the coffin...
Republicans Appear Terrified of Union Power
Republicans love to try out new attacks on new groups of American citizens, but when push comes to shove, they’ll...
Right-Winger Paul Ryan Demands Family Time For Himself, But Opposes Family Leave For American Workers
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is demanding family leave for himself every single weekend, but he has refused to support virtually...
Republican Leaders Afraid of Allowing Certain Citizens to Vote
In a press briefing today, Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged that “the amount of time and energy that Republicans have...
Robert Reich: 3 Good Reasons You Should Dismiss Right-wing Economists
Congress is heading into another big brawl over the federal budget deficit, the national debt, and the debt ceiling. Republicans...
Bernie Sanders rejects meeting and donation from greed-head drug CEO Martin Shkreli
The most hated man in America — at least a couple weeks ago — just got the back of Bernie...
Koch-Backed Republicans Want To Eliminate America’s National Parks
It is hardly a secret that Republicans wholly-support and agree with their masters, the Koch brothers, that every sector of...
Delusional Jeb Bush Advocates Causing A Recession So ‘We Can Have Economic Prosperity’
It might be easy enough to believe Jeb Bush was simply coloring outside the lines of a “shrink government” philosophy...
Bernie Sanders: ‘Congress Doesn’t Regulate Wall Street. Wall Street Regulates Congress.’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) criticized Hillary Clinton for not going after Wall Street enough at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. Clinton...
Just 158 families have provided half of the money to try to capture the White House
They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women,...
Unions Celebrate as the Koch Brother’s Pawn Scott Walker Exits Presidential Race
Unions are celebrating the rapid demise of union busting national disgrace, Scott Walker. Larry Hanley, international president of the Amalgamated...
Republicans Want to Spend $130 Million Taxpayer Dollars to Defund Planned Parenthood
Senate Republicans are set to vote to defund Planned Parenthood Thursday afternoon, which is going to increase government spending by...
The Koch Brothers Believe that Spending a Billion Dollars Will Buy Them a Lot of Politicians
Republicans understand the fundamentals of electoral politics in a way that should absolutely terrify the Democratic Party. It goes like...
Ohio Governor Kasich’s Corrupt Corporate Charter School Failure
It surprises no-one, not even the racist and religious Republican base that the GOP exists first and foremost to advance...
Bush Made Millions Giving His Friends At Lehman Billions Of Florida Pension Funds To Lose
For many Americans the idea of entrusting their life-savings, or retirement savings, to a trustworthy entity is a very serious...
Scott Walker’s Plan To Take Away Heath Insurance Would Kill 9,800 Americans A Year
Scott Walker has unveiled his plan to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a system that would kill an estimated...
Why Down to Earth Republicans Support Bernie
Ann Coulter knows who she wants to be the Democratic nominee for president, and who that person is, well, it...
Paul Krugman: GOP candidates promise government by the One Percent, for the One Percent
In his Monday column, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman argued that desire by almost the entire Republican field of...
Jeb Bush Super PAC Donors Are Also Out To Buy Washington
A number of donors giving eye-popping sums to a super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign are...
Bernie Sanders: Republican Obstruction Is Costing America 1.4 Million Jobs
Sen. Bernie Sanders is making Republicans squirm by pointing out that if the sequester is continued it will cost the...
Robert Reich: The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
“He can’t possibly win the nomination,” is the phrase heard most often when Washington insiders mention either Donald Trump or...
Hillary Clinton Wants to Help Students by Limiting Tax Deductions for the Rich
Hillary Clinton promises to reduce the growth and burden of student debt if she is elected president by taxing high...
Bernie Sanders Vows to Stop the Koch Brothers “Legalized Bribery” of Republicans
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be unveiling new legislation on the Senate floor today that will put an end to the...
Journalists Only Allowed At Exclusive Koch Brothers Gathering If They Agree Not To Name Conservative Donors
Several news organizations gained rare access Saturday into a private gathering of influential Republican donors hosted by Freedom Partners Chamber...
Ted Cruz Auditions to be the Koch’s Hustler on Capitol Hill
Need to be a hero, but don’t have any really scary enemies? Invent an enemy – in this case the...
