Oliver Willis
Oliver Willis is a Research Fellow at Media Matters for America. He has been with the organization since 2004 and has been a political blogger since 2000. He attended Florida Atlantic University.
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Trump’s contempt for working-class expressed in new expanded public charge rule
It is unimaginable that Congress would classify so many working-class and middle-class Americans as undesirable public charges.
Red states cut worker pay by $1.5 billion
If you’re a minimum wage worker in a conservative state, your state lawmakers may have cut your paycheck by over $4,000.
Fighting back: Six states sue the EPA over its approval of pesticide linked to...
“The EPA is egregiously sacrificing our children’s health by refusing to make a determination on this dangerous pesticide.”
Pennsylvania is discharging radioactive fracking waste into rivers as landfill leachate, impacting the Chesapeake...
Edited by Melissa Troutman
Originally published by Joshua B. Pribanic and Talia Wiener for Public Herald edited by Melissa Troutman
Blackwater mercenary sentenced to life in prison
Responsible for firing the first bullet in the Nisour Square massacre in 2007, former Blackwater security contractor Nicholas Slatten was sentenced Wednesday to life in federal prison. Last year, Slatten was convicted of first-degree murder...