Why Bernie Will, Should and Must Stay in the Race
Bernie has substantively — even profoundly — changed American politics for the better.
Embattled Kuwaiti defense contractor building foreign influence operation with firms tied to Mueller probe
A Kuwaiti defense contractor that plead guilty to stealing U.S. government funds is assembling a team of lobbyists and foreign influence operatives...
Biden proposes hiking taxes on richest Americans to fund universal pre-k, paid leave, and...
The president's tax plan—which omits an estate tax increase that he promised on the campaign trail—was devised to cover the cost of a significant expansion of the nation's tattered social safety net.
Why the GOP’s Fence Fantasy Is a Farce
Trump, Cruz, Rubio and the other “just build a wall” simpletons either don’t know what they’re talking about or are deliberately trying to dupe voters.
“We will never again be a colony”: Venezuela defies Trump as global protests erupt...
With Nicolás Maduro detained in Brooklyn and at least 40 reportedly killed, Venezuelan leaders project unity while protests spread worldwide and US lawmakers warn of an illegal war.
Celebrating the Flash Crash with a Wall Street Sales Tax
As we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Flash Crash, we can also celebrate a possible policy that will take mostly from the rich and raise a huge amount of money by raising the cost of financial transactions.
Over 100 Notre Dame students walk out of Mike Pence’s commencement speech
President Trump was going to be asked to give the speech, but thousands of students signed a petition demanding the university not invite him.
Trump’s trade Czar, the latest architect of imperial disaster
No matter how deeply flawed such geopolitical visions may ultimately prove to be, their brief moments as official policy have regularly shaped the destiny of nations and of empires in unpredictable, unplanned, and often dangerous ways.
Merger mania
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,”...
Taxpayers are subsidizing corporations that pay CEOs hundreds of times more than workers, study...
Author says the findings should fuel the movement to "use the power of the public purse to crack down on corporations that refuse to share the wealth."