Saturday, March 7, 2026

The Employees’ Side of the Wells Fargo Scandal

Banks like Wells Fargo use poverty-level wages and job insecurity to force employees to do unethical things they couldn’t otherwise get them to do.

Former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt used private email for government work

“The fact that his personal emails weren’t provided to us until after he left could mean that he was actively trying to hide something or that he was just as cavalier about records policy as he was about all the other rules on government accountability and ethics. Both are bad.”

How Congress stopped working

Today’s legislative branch, far from the model envisioned by the founders, is dominated by party leaders and functions as a junior partner to the executive, according to an analysis by The Washington Post and ProPublica.

Trump University and Laureate International Universities

Trump has Trump University as an Achilles' heel, but the Clintons have LIU.

The decline and fall of presidential America

Have a we entered a deeply bump-stocked defeat culture?

President Obama Finally Gets It Right on Expanding Social Security

A lot of U.S. citizens do not have a retirement savings and depend on social security when it is time to leave the workforce.

The GOP’s Love Affair With Its ‘Earthquake in a Box’

Breaking up is hard to do and Republicans just can't seem to quit their presumptive presidential candidate.
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Donald Trump’s behavior may encourage attacks, Islamic State spokesman says

Trump is said to be seeking ways to accelerate the campaign against Daesh.

Prison without walls: Understanding the crisis in Kashmir

Besides the wildfires currently raging through the Amazon, which provides the oxygen for every fifth breath you take, the most dangerous place...
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Dark money & Barrett nomination: The link between big polluters & the war on...

“My experience around politics is that when you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows.”