Tax-dodging billionaire dynasties could cost US $8.4 trillion
Over the next few decades, the richest American families could avoid paying about $8.4 trillion in taxes, or more than four times...
Surviving today’s toxic brew of doomsday moralism, criminality and derangement
You don’t have to be an English major to appreciate that style reveals as much as content when assessing persona, character and...
40 House Democrats demand Congress ‘swiftly’ cut drug prices
With the Build Back Better Act stalled in the Senate thanks to the GOP and a couple of right-wing Democrats, 40 party...
Why are we torching our best tool to end child poverty?
Ada Mae’s beautiful blonde curls are wild on this sunny, mild winter afternoon.
I’ve just picked her up from...
US to Russia: Do as we say, not as we do
Aiding and abetting a potentially catastrophic—and I do mean catastrophic—confrontation between the world’s two nuclear superpowers are lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Key battleground states considering using digital ballot images to boost voter trust
In Georgia, Florida, and Arizona, the GOP and Democrats are weighing a wider use of an essential election record to confirm the accuracy of controversial results.
Government contracting: The next big battleground for a more equal America?
Our tax dollars don’t have to be feeding executive-suite greed and grasping.
Wealthy progressives back primaries against Dems tanking party agenda
A group of wealthy progressives announced Thursday that it will support primary challenges against Rep. Henry Cuellar, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, and other...
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.