Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Spain, Brazil and South Africa create alliance to tax super-rich at UN conference

Oxfam said the alliance created at the UN conference shows the political will for taxation of the super-rich that countries must follow their lead and join forces.

Ugliest of ugly Americans, desperate for face-saving charades, exports chaotic, boorish pestilence abroad

Stuntery, like putz-ery, is readily undone and when it flops, it turns against itself.

Heinrich-backed ORPHAN Cures Act returns in GOP reconciliation bill, critics say it gifts Big...

Senate parliamentarian reverses an earlier ruling, letting a provision that shields multi-use orphan drugs from Medicare price talks ride on Republicans’ budget package as patient advocates warn of higher costs for taxpayers and seniors.

GOP budget standoff deepens as internal revolt stalls Trump’s $3.3 trillion megabill

Senate hold-outs cite draconian Medicaid and SNAP cuts while a new CBO score warns the measure will add $3.3 trillion to the debt even as Republican leaders race to meet Trump’s July 4 deadline.

A ‘striking’ trend: After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled to death during...

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

The rage of billionaires and the frenzy to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming New...

That strategy is now striking fear into the hard hearts of insatiably greedy billionaires.

Trump knows he’s failing—and he’s hoping a new war will bail him out

Trump’s Iran offensive seeks to divert attention from mounting crises at home.

Is Trump co-governing with the billionaire class?

While politicians regularly partner with business, when should they collaborate with grassroots movements?

NATO’s 5% pledge: An obscene betrayal of global needs

It represents a major step backwards—away from addressing the urgent needs of people and the planet, and toward an arms race that will impoverish societies while enriching weapons contractors.

How Trump betrayed workers by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act

Community leaders united behind the initiative. And then Donald Trump stabbed them all in the back.