Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Project 2025: How the far-right’s tax plan would hike middle-class taxes while slashing taxes...

Project 2025, a far-right agenda, proposes radical tax reforms that would disproportionately burden middle-income Americans while granting significant tax breaks to the wealthiest households and large corporations.

Trump DOJ sues states to shield fossil fuel companies from climate lawsuits in unprecedented...

In a sweeping defense of oil and gas corporations, the Trump administration has filed federal lawsuits against four states to block efforts aimed at holding fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change damages—an aggressive action legal experts warn undermines state authority and sets a dangerous precedent.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 10, 2018

Trump rule would give $2.5 billion tax cut to big bank fat cats, Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting asylum seekers, Argentina Senate votes against legalizing abortion, and more.

Nineteen states to raise minimum wage on Jan. 1

While some states will reach a $15 minimum wage for the first time, other states will have a minimum wage of $15 or higher as of January 1, 2026.

Senators probe Equifax over plans to profit from Medicaid and SNAP work requirements

Warren, Wyden, and Sanders are demanding disclosures from Equifax as new federal work requirements threaten to strip healthcare and food assistance from millions while expanding the company’s already dominant income verification business.

The myth of “moderate rebels” in Syria

They aren't moderate, they aren't Syrian, and they aren't rebels.

Yes, half of Americans are in or near poverty: Here’s more evidence

Too many Americans have been cheated out of opportunities to share in our nation's prosperity.

Trump orders US nuclear weapons testing to resume for the first time in 33...

The president’s directive to restart nuclear weapons testing, announced just before his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, has sparked alarm among arms control experts and lawmakers who warn it could trigger global escalation and radioactive fallout.

Neocon nightmare: Americans flee Iraq as US embassy is hit and oil ports are...

Now that the US is again involved in a major war in the region, Iraq tilts to Washington’s enemy, Iran.

New evidence that poor Americans pay the highest taxes and get little of the...

Today the taking of our national wealth can be tax-deferred indefinitely.