Mormon Republicans Continue Bundy’s War On Americans’ Public Lands
Nearly two years ago when a Mormon rancher who hates the federal government he had been stealing from for 20...
ONE PERCENT TAKERS -- THE SITE THAT EXPOSES THE GREED AND TAKING BY AMERICA'S RICHEST ONE PERCENT AND REVEALS HOW ORDINARY AMERICANS ARE FIGHTING BACK
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...
How Walmart Leeches Off Of U.S. Taxpayers
David Pakman gives an examination into how Walmart creates customers by underpaying employees, and leeches off of government welfare programs…...
Paul Krugman: Tax Cuts for Billionaires are GOP’s Number One Priority
Remember Paul Ryan? The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the...
The Chamber of Commerce Elite Continues Its Assault On The Working Class
The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to fight a Seattle ordinance that could extend union protections and benefits to...
The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
If you’re a hardcore libertarian, which program would you be most eager to privatize? The VA, of course, which is...
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...
Why the Critics of Bernienomics Are Wrong
Not day goes by, it seems, without the mainstream media bashing Bernie Sanders’s economic plan – quoting certain economists as...
Book Exposes Koch Brothers’ Guide to Infiltrating the Media
A new book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer lays out how the oil billionaire Koch brothers rose to the powerful position...
Donald Trump Wants to Give His Rich Cronies Huge Tax Breaks
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to...
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...
How America’s Superrich Are Cutting the Lifespan of the Poor
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
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...
Koch Brothers Can’t Stop Trying To Kill People
How much damage can two individuals do? If those two people are the Koch Brothers (pronounced “coke”) the answer is,...
President Obama Stymies The Right-Wing Oligarchs By Taking The Citizens United Fight To The States
While addressing the Illinois General Assembly, President Obama did what the billionaires and special interests fear most. He took the...
Top Economist Says Bernie Sanders’ Plan Would Lead to a Big Increase in Median Income and Jobs
Gerald Friedman, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, prepared an exclusive analysis to CNN Money on Bernie...
Billionaire Koch’s Promote Hard Right Propaganda Narrative That ‘Greed Is Good’
For decades, the Koch Brothers have funded a massive propaganda operation to disparage what democracy can do when a society...
Wall Street Billionaire Puzzled by Bernie Sanders’ Popularity
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the amount of discontent apparently felt by other Americans these days… Read more…
Koch Brothers and Their Front Group ALEC Attempt to Destroy Nation’s Solar Industry
The fight over solar net metering in Nevada just got personal last Friday, with a proposed new amendment tacked on...
The Revolt of the Middle Class
The great American middle class has become an anxious class – and it’s in revolt. Before I explain how that...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Top 10 Corporate Tax Dodgers
Bernie Sanders is making Big Business shudder by using his platform as a presidential candidate to expose the top 10...
Paul Krugman: Plutocrats and Prejudice
Every time you think that our political discourse can’t get any worse, it does. The Republican primary fight has devolved...
The One Percent Often Shuns Those Less Fortunate
There’s plenty of evidence to support the work ethic of poor people. —–Almost 63 percent of America’s work-eligible poor are...
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’ Single-Payer Healthcare Plan Will Save American Families $1200 a Year
This week Hillary Clinton’s campaign launched a barrage of assaults on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer healthcare plan, claiming that the plan...
Why Organized Labor is More Important Than Ever
Imagine America without unions. This shouldn’t be hard. In much of America unions have already disappeared. In the rest of...
170 Economists and Analysts Support Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Break Up the Big Banks
After his ground-breaking speech earlier this month announcing his plan for Wall Street reform, Bernie Sanders’ has seen enormous support...
Twenty Billionaires Own More Than the Bottom Half of Americans
How can there be 400 billionaires so self-absorbed in their fortunes and greed that they cannot see the sea of...
NPR: The ‘Hidden History’ Of The Koch Brothers
In January 2015, at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., the political network led by conservative billionaires Charles and...
Paul Krugman: Privilege, Pathology and Power
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it’s a conclusion from...
Evidence Shows That Raising Restaurant Workers’ Wages Doesn’t Cause Job Loss
Low-income workers rallied across the country to turn the minimum wage into a livable one in 2015. As servers and...
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...
Obama’s Executive Action Insures That 5 Million Workers Will Get A Raise In 2016
In June, President Obama signed an executive order that directed the Labor Department to chance the rules for overtime pay....
The One Percent Has Devised A Tax System That Saves Them Billions
The hedge fund magnates Daniel S. Loeb, Louis Moore Bacon and Steven A. Cohen have much in common. They have...
Bernie Sander’s Plan to Prevent Corporate Tax Dodging
Sanders has proposed a detailed plan for addressing the country’s infrastructure needs, with an investment of $1 trillion. His plan...
Bernie Sanders Explains the Divide and Conquer Strategy of the ‘Ruling Class’
In his wide-ranging interview with “Killer Mike,” Bernie Sanders drew on his knowledge of the civil rights era to show...
Bill Moyers: The One Percent Must Not Be Allowed To Win
Dear Readers: In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washington...
How the United States Transformed Into a ‘Dual Economy’ and What Can Be Done
In the America of haves and have-nots, fewer folks are “movin’ on up” like George Jefferson of the classic sitcom....
Paul Krugman: The One Percent Attempts to Rewrite History of Financial Crisis
In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to...
Tyson Foods: Carving Up Workers’ Comp
About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw...
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...
Bernie Sanders Calls Out The Corporate Media For Blocking His Message
After it had been revealed that Bernie Sanders has gotten 1/30th of the coverage that Donald Trump has received on...
How Rich Corporations Get Away With Murder
Legal activists have long observed that there are two systems of law in America, one for the rich and one...
