Of Rotten Apples and Rotten Systems
Shkreli may be a rotten apple, but hedge funds and the pharmaceutical industry are two rotten systems that are costing Americans a bundle.
US billionaires are now $2.1 trillion richer than before the pandemic
Not only did the wealth of U.S. billionaires grow, but so did their numbers: in March of last year, there were 614 Americans with 10-figure bank accounts. Today there are 745.
Saudi Arabia’s newest enemy is… Canada?
The Canadian government has become embroiled in a war of words with one of the most despicable regimes in the world, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
It can’t happen here (but it just did)
Now we all stand on the precipice — of aggressive nationalism, of ugly prejudice, of climate change, of despair.
Tillerson present as Exxon signed major deal with Saudi Arabia during Trump visit
“The President's Saudi trip was a bizarre Art of the Deal-esque foreign policy disaster."
‘Net Neutrality is here to stay:’ California Senate passes SB 822
"We’re trying to adopt the protections that the FCC abandoned.”
On the rehabilitation of George W. Bush
Say it again: The enemy of our enemy is still a war criminal.
Monopoly mayhem: Corporations win, workers lose
Big corporations have become so dominant that workers and consumers have fewer options and have to accept the wages and prices these giant corporations offer.
10 years ago, Connecticut got big money out of its elections. Now Democrats are...
The landmark public financing system is under threat.
Establishment Democrats lack the will to fight the GOP tax plan. It’s time for...
To fend off the Republicans’ one-sided class war, we must break the corporate hold on the Democratic Party.