Saturday, November 7, 2026

Historic CEO pay tax passes in Portland

The Oregon city has just adopted the first tax penalty on corporations with extreme gaps between their CEO and worker pay.

The corporate takeover of housing

Corporate ownership remains a relatively small percentage of American housing. But a growing number of financial firms, tech platforms, and institutional landlords, alongside a national housing shortage, is making homeownership even less affordable.

The lawsuit that could save the planet

With Donald Trump proposing to undo nearly all of President Obama's climate legacy, hope for a safe climate future may rest in the hands of the courts.
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The next crash

That imbalance is back. Watch your wallets.

Vance cockups sabotage Trump’s core pitch: that his smarts guarantee hiring only the “best...

Vance has pushed beyond tone-dead and as a campaigner into brain-dead territory.

‘Out of control’: Sanders calls for urgent Supreme Court reform following controversial rulings

Bernie Sanders calls for immediate reforms to the Supreme Court, citing recent rulings that grant presidential immunity and criminalize homelessness as threats to democracy and justice.
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Who is worse: Donald Trump or Mitch McConnell?

The two of them have degraded and corrupted American democracy. We need them both out.

Bernie Sanders and colleagues call on Trump to end offshoring

Sanders is urging the president to issue an executive order preventing federal contractors from sending jobs overseas for cheaper labor.

Dems want to ditch leaders and move left; they’re right

On the left, at least, the voters are once again way ahead of the politicians.

Trump team, ALEC, Koch Industries debate gerrymandering the US Senate in Denver

Right-wing extremists want to roll back the clock to enable Republican state houses and Republican governors to hijack at least 10 U.S. Senate Seats held by Democrats.