Trump leads the religious right to the promised land
Evangelicals’ alignment with Trump shows their affinity for power over morality.
2021 update: Half of America in or near poverty
The facts and numbers from numerous sources reflect the reality of deprivation in America, and help to confirm what has been called the "sharpest rise in the U.S. poverty rate since the 1960s."
Clarence Thomas’s undisclosed gifts from billionaire spark renewed calls for Supreme Court ethics reform
New revelations about undisclosed luxury travel raise fresh concerns over Justice Clarence Thomas’s ethics and call for urgent judicial reforms.
Global consumer boycott of US goods expands as Trump’s trade war escalates
International consumers reject U.S. goods in response to Trump’s trade policies, escalating tariffs, and growing dissatisfaction with American corporate and political influence.
How to fight off a bad case of “CHS” Flu
Far from alienating the electorate, these proposals are generating majority support precisely because they are bold and clearly would benefit… well, the majority.
Prince of darkness: Blackwater’s founder promotes a dangerous solution to America’s longest war
“I grew up around the auto industry. Customers would say to my dad, ‘We have this need.’ He would then use his own money to create prototypes to fulfill those needs. He took the ‘If you build it they will come’ approach.” —Erik Prince
Sanders Calls on RFK Jr. to resign after CDC shake-up and attacks on vaccine...
Amid a leadership purge at the CDC, Bernie Sanders says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “endangering the health of the American people” and urges a bipartisan investigation.
Trust Congress? Consider what Smedley Butler said
Congress can be bought today as it was bought then.
US democracy faces gravest danger
Unless the Republicans and Democrats put the nation above their party and personal interests, our democracy will face the gravest danger in...
“Billionaires and big corporations sharpening their knives”: Progressive tax groups sound alarm over Trump’s...
With a Congress poised to push for sweeping tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, progressive organizations brace for a fierce battle to prevent policies that would deepen inequality and burden working Americans.