23 Numbers to Know About Election 2016
New facts, figures and curiosities that help explain a wild campaign.
‘Time for Citizens United to go’: US oligarchs poured $1.2 billion into 2020 elections
"Billionaires shouldn't get to use their enormous wealth to pick and choose who they want in office."
Five Reasons Why Presidential Candidates Should Not Speak at AIPAC
For presidential candidates to accept AIPAC’s invitation to speak at their policy conference is for them to take a stand even further to the extreme right.
The big lie that is behind the Trump/GOP tax bill
Absent union pressure, the bosses will never raise wages.
Misty Snow Makes History as first Transgender Senate Nominee
The 30-year-old resident of Salt Lake City used a progressive platform to run, inspired by Senator Bernie Sanders.
The Goldman Sachs effect
How a bank conquered Washington
Why were the Saudi streets so quiet?
While Mexicans pour out on the streets to protest Trump’s anti-immigrant policies, there was nary a Saudi protester chanting “Trump: Go home.”
President Trump, this way to the egress
Less than six months into his presidency, it's clear that our chief executive is unfit for office.
A House Divided (On Gun Control) Cannot Vacation
This historic protest was demanding what can only be called a meager measure, delaying suspected terrorists from buying guns. What about restoring the assault-weapons ban?
Who’s really looting America?
By pitting us against each other – blaming immigrants, blaming liberals, and especially blaming people of color, and Black people in particular – they’ve divided us, and gotten away with it.