Big bucks ready to flow into Maine as Susan Collins aims to keep her...
The Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in 2020 will start with millions of dollars in the bank. And the picture of...
For-profit company makes $750 per day, per immigrant child yet maintains deplorable conditions
For $750 a day a child could stay in a suite at Trump's Washington hotel.
US poverty statistics ignore millions of struggling American
Who counts as poor in the U.S. today?
Measuring the share of the population that experiences poverty is important...
Taxing the rich starts with knowing who they are
When we talk about the wealthy, who are we really referring to? Is it the billionaires on private jets? The neighbors up...
NYT presents social security cuts as ‘solution’ to problem of social security cuts
It’s hard to improve on economist and FAIR contributor Dean Baker’s observation that corporate media’s calls for cuts to programs for the elderly under...
Jockpocalypse
From the ballpark to team Trump.
Supreme Court rules against government transparency in contracts with private businesses
Reversing decades of precedent, highest court allows private corporations to block release of government information.
Trump EPA claims new power plant rule would improve health of minority and low-income...
Media are missing the environmental justice story behind Trump's Affordable Clean Energy rule.
Progressive legislation would tax Wall Street to pay for free college and eliminate student...
"We bailed out Wall Street in 2008. It's time to tax Wall Street's greed to help the American people."
Bernie warns the ‘drums of war are beating in Washington again’
"The US is strong enough to deal with these issues diplomatically, working with allies around the world, and that is what we should be doing."