CDC Director resigns amid controversy over tobacco stocks
“You don’t buy tobacco stocks when you are the head of the CDC. It’s ridiculous; it gives a terrible appearance.”
What does it take to destroy a world order?
Climate change, if not brought under some kind of control, threatens to create a new and eternally cataclysmic planet on which the very word “order” may lose its traditional meaning.
Harvard newspaper to Biden: Cancel more than $10k in student debt and don’t use...
“It’s not our student debt—but we still want Biden to forgive it.”
Republicans responsible for voter suppression in 2016
With a Republican majority currently held in all three branches, there will most likely be a lot more barriers and restrictions in the times ahead.
In New York, Republicans and Democrats Join Forces to Overturn Citizens United
Seventeen states have called for a constitutional amendment to reduce the influence of money in politics. So who’s next?
Corporations are spending their tax cut – on themselves
Instead of creating jobs, big businesses are using their tax cut bonanza to hike stock value and CEO pay.
Trump accused of ‘criminal extortion’ after asking Georgia officials to ‘find’ 11,000 votes for...
"Everyone who has a tape of Trump abusing his power should release it now."
Libya’s incoming strongman Haftar will send the oil out to Europe – and keep its...
The West and the Gulf Arabs have condemned Libya to the strongman.
Capitalism and the profit-motive didn’t create the James Webb space telescope
Maybe what it will take for brainwashed U.S. citizens to wake up to the fact that we’re all being lied to about the marvels of capitalism will be for the “socialist” Webb telescope to discover an advanced socialist-type society thriving on some distant planet.
Republican tax reform: Principles of ethics and morals be damned
Republicans are trying to peddle the old worn out “trickle down” economic theory that they insist will greatly stimulate growth and create millions of jobs.