Can Congress Really Use Insider Information to Trade Stock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HXpLyg-iVg
Members of Congress use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed...
Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement. After serving for 27 years, Breyer, 83, will step down from his lifetime position at the end of the term in June.
Sanders demands end to Medicare premium hike from Alzheimer’s drug
Building on his recent letter to U.S. President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday wrote to a key government analyst to...
Want to understand Manchin and Sinema?
If you want the whole answer, you need to look at the single biggest factor affecting almost all national politicians I’ve dealt with: Big egos.
Why the voting rights struggle is a tipping point for American democracy
E.J. Jenkins vividly recalls the day his mom worked a voter registration drive at a grocery store in Gary, Indiana, and followed...
Two sides, same coin: Suppressing votes, cutting rich people’s taxes
America’s national media typically pay little attention to the moves the nation’s state lawmakers make. Not this year. State legislative battles have...
Biden considering deploying thousands of troops to eastern Europe
U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly weighing a Pentagon proposal to deploy thousands of American troops to the Baltics and Eastern Europe...
Want true, wrenching, life-altering ‘grievances?’ Don’t look to right-wing base complaints
What social, ethnic, class or work group doesn’t have far more cause to feel disrespected, mistreated or exploited than Trump whiners?
‘Time for Citizens United to go’: US oligarchs poured $1.2 billion into 2020 elections
"Billionaires shouldn't get to use their enormous wealth to pick and choose who they want in office."
Johnson does Downing Street: Booze, lies and playacting
Johnson is part of a privileged cozy class (Eton to Oxbridge to Whitehall) that feels themselves exempt from moral duties, social obligations and legal restrictions.