One of America’s richest families made huge profits from the nation’s opioid crisis
A court ruling Monday in Massachusetts will expose details about one of America’s richest families and their connection to the...
A court ruling Monday in Massachusetts will expose details about one of America’s richest families and their connection to the...
I suppose this Morning Joe mini-discussion is the closest thing we’re going to get in terms of a discussion of...
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the fastest growing occupation in the US is solar PV installer, with a projected...
While Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is getting much-deserved for her handling of the shutdown President Donald Trump instigated...
Most Americans do not realize it but January 11th 2019 marks 75 years since President Rosevelt, proposed free college education,...
The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own...
A new study has found that areas of America hit hardest by the opioids epidemic were the top regions where...
Donald Trump tells us the US economy is “absolutely booming”, the “strongest we’ve ever had” and “the greatest in the...
In a blow to conservatives everywhere a new Hill-HarrisX survey supported Ocasio-Cortez’ beliefs and found that most Americans by a...
When members of Congress introduced legislation this week raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it was in...
Electric vehicles are getting close to a major tipping point, and it isn’t just fans who are taking notice. The...
The most important thing we must do to save our democracy is get big money out of politics. It’s a...
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced a plan to provide health care for New Yorkers who cannot qualify...
A new analysis shows US greenhouse gas levels are increasing as the Trump administration unravels efforts to slow climate change. Carbon...
I have no idea how well Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will perform as a member of Congress. But her election is already...
A program has been created by HBI and IREC to help at-risk youth get jobs in the solar power industry. Solar...
Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode...
This month, when diplomats met in Poland to negotiate the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the United States took on...
What do you call someone who places your life in imminent danger? If it’s intentional, it’s called attempted murder. If...
As House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivered his farewell address on Wednesday after 20 years of relentlessly working to gut social programs for the...
Rachel Gold, an earth sciences student at Brown University, has been too busy with her research into signs of abrupt climate...
The special counsel’s spending on the Russia probe has now exceeded $25 million, according to the Department of Justice, but...
Writing in The Guardian this week, Bill McKibben, the tireless climate activist and founder of 350.org, reports this bit of good news...
Daytime visits to golf clubs since inauguration, with evidence of playing golf on at least 70 visits. The last recorded...
When the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers,...
This is a story of how a small group of wealthy white men can hijack an entire nation, destroy its...
U.S. prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have charged four people with taking part in a decades-long scheme to evade U.S....
An interesting thing about politics is how you can distill so many nuanced policies down to a few core ideological...
The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower soars over Panama City bay, a 70-storey skyscraper shaped like a sail. Donald...
The combination of Fox & Friends and corrupt former Environmental Protection Administration head Scott Pruitt wouldn’t lead you to expect anything good,...
SAN FRANCISCO — A civil rights attorney is calling for a boycott of the San Francisco Giants after the baseball team’s...
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday criticized Fox News for not dedicating enough time to the gloomy new climate change report the Trump...
Over the course of 2018, I have started emphasizing how the extraction and sale of fossil fuels is like a...
There is a very short window of time to get out of pure-play oil & gas company investments without substantial...
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Politico’s Bryan Bender about a story he broke earlier this week on troubling results...
In radio shows and talks from London to Boston to Richmond, Ind., people keep asking me how the Trump family got...
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
As it turns out, the impact of human activity on the planet and the environment can work both ways. This...
Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their...
Residents in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday, granting health coverage...
Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin’s state superintendent of public education and a former teacher, won the governor’s race against incumbent Scott...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is now reporting that an international human rights organization has requested that prosecutors in The Netherlands open...
There’s a wildly incorrect claim that Republicans are more “pro-job” or “pro-economy” than Democrats. That’s absolutely not true… Read more…
In 2014, a financially struggling hospice caregiver in California decided to invest in a video phone marketing company by the...
A wealthy CEO might actually be heading to prison – a rare occurrence in America today. Mashiyat Rashid, the CEO of...
Tobacco companies are pouring millions of dollars into the midterms this year, trying to fight off tax increases on their deadly products...
Republicans would love to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. But they can’t, because Social Security and Medicare are...
On 60 Minutes last Sunday, putative president Donald Trump backed away from his famous assertion that climate change was a hoax invented...
Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, has escalated his attacks on fellow San Francisco billionaires, saying they are “hoarding” money and don’t want...
A massive new investigation by Pro Publica reveals President Donald Trump and his children engage in systematic deceit to lure investors to its...