Cut corporate taxes? This is how the biggest companies cheated on taxes in 2016
Ten companies mentioned in this report collectively withheld nearly $15 billion in tax money in 2016.
Overseas travel cements Trump’s ugly ‘Ugly Americanism’
The good, if grim news about Trump and Gianforte is how readily exposed are their moral, legal and leadership defects – already instant late-night laughing stocks for having acted scandalously without penalty (so far).
The people’s Memorial Day
On this Memorial Day let us contemplate the moral injury we do to our nation every day in the never ending wars of the 21st Century.
5 things we need from any new health care law
Including protecting people with preexisting conditions, funding Planned Parenthood, and other ways to ensure care.
Capitalism, American style; a failing system, no longer a model for the world
As more and more money is acquired by those at the top, the more consumer purchasing power suffers and, with it, the economy.
Making America meaner
A president contributes to setting the norms of our society. Trump is setting them at a new low.
Embracing Islamic terrorism
Ever wonder why we never go to war against or impose sanctions on these sponsors of terrorism? Heck, we don’t even condemn them!
“A government for the many, not the few”
Jeremy Corbyn and the resurgence of the British left.
If they’re wrong, the planet dies
The Obama administration could have done more to stop climate change. The Trump administration couldn't have done less.
Why Trumpcare is giving Senate Republicans heartburn
Senate Republicans won’t get near a single payer. So they’ll have to strengthen the Affordable Care Act.