Trump’s top tax official built career helping billionaires dodge taxes
Ken Kies, a longtime lobbyist for major corporations and the ultra-wealthy, now leads the Treasury’s tax policy office under Trump—just as Republicans push for new tax cuts benefiting the richest Americans.
Sanders threatens to demand stronger conditions on $500 billion ‘corporate welfare fund’ if GOP...
“It would be an outrage to prevent working-class Americans to receive the emergency unemployment assistance included in this legislation.”
5 ways William Barr is turning America into a dictatorship
For the sake of our democracy, he must resign immediately.
Trump is history. It’s Joe Biden who’s changing America
The stars are now better aligned for fundamental reform than they’ve been since Reagan.
‘This is political retribution:’ Trump admin attacks California’s environmental record
"This an obvious attempt at political intimidation."
Former Public Schools Chief Indicted for Accepting Bribes and Kickbacks
Pleading guilty, former Chicago Public Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett was indicted for accepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for lucrative government contracts. Corrupt politicians continue to line their pockets with taxpayer money.
Harris can’t embrace billionaires if she wants to win
Billionaires are busy pressuring political candidates to keep their taxes unjustly low. Their opinions shouldn’t—and don’t—matter.
It’s not Trump’s country — even in ‘Trump country’
Progressive ballot initiatives passed handily across the country, even in so-called red states.
Judge rejects NRA’s bankruptcy bid, allowing New York’s lawsuit against the gun group to...
The bankruptcy case exposed weaknesses within the NRA’s internal management structure as well as its strategy to avoid legal exposure.
'How the FBI Created a Terrorist:' Agency Accused of Entrapping Mentally Ill Man in...
One journalist investigates the FBI’s use of informants in sting operations in an exposé called "How the FBI Created a Terrorist." Join Democracy Now discusses an elaborately orchestrated FBI sting that took place in 2012.