Monday, May 25, 2026

Prices, plutocrats, and corporate concentration

Would less corporate concentration – and a weaker corporate capacity to raise prices – mean less inequality?

Tens of millions in PPP loans went to corporate polluters after companies were fined...

Tens of millions of dollars went to companies with environmental mishaps.

The Trump administration’s latest attempt to undermine science – and how to stop it

A bill that is gaining bipartisan momentum in the House would protect the science that protects the public.

Glyphosate found in more than 80% of U.S. urine samples

Glyphosate was listed as a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015. 

Chicago becomes largest US city to power all municipal buildings with renewable energy

Chicago powers 411 city buildings with 100 percent renewable energy, setting a major climate milestone.

Scoring Trump’s tax cuts so far: $280k for rich lawmakers, pennies for working people

Very few businesses have raised wages thanks to corporate tax cuts, but executives and lawmakers are buying new yachts.
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$1 an hour to fight largest fire in CA history: Are prison firefighting programs...

According to some estimates, California avoids spending about $80-$100 million a year by using prison labor to fight its biggest environmental problem.

Before COB on the first workday of 2023, CEOs will make more than the...

In less than seven hours on the first workday of the New Year, a typical CEO will have made as much as the average U.S. worker will make all year.

‘It can’t be Warren and it can’t be Sanders:’ Wall Street executives make 2020...

"The best indication of who you should vote for in the Democratic primary if you actually want progressive policy is who Wall Street doesn't like, which essentially means Bernie or Warren."

The Agriculture Attitude

This Thanksgiving, let's support, celebrate and share the amazing bounty that dedicated farmers like Lee Jones produce — for us, for the land and for the future.