Record corporate profits, record stock buybacks, and the plan to tax them
As corporations blow record sums repurchasing their stock to inflate CEO pay, Congress is advancing a tax aimed at curbing this harmful practice.
Forty-five blows against democracy
How U.S. military bases back dictators, autocrats, and military regimes.
Trump’s drug pricing scam
The plan he announced Friday does little but add another battering ram to his ongoing economic war against America’s allies.
Bankruptcy is us
However it happens, he really does need to be trumped before he Trumps us all off this planet and global bankruptcy becomes us.
Ending Latin America’s sewage decade
The victory of Xiomara Castro in Honduras is a sign that region is ready to exit its lost decade.
Corporate media are the real ‘Sanders attack machine’
The real Sanders attack machine isn’t the mythical machine run by Sanders to take down his opponents; it’s run by the establishment Democrats and their media counterparts to take down Sanders.
Biden administration announces new funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the nation
The administration will dedicate $8.2 billion in new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021 to deliver world-class high-speed rail and launch new passenger rail corridors.
How Mitch McConnell’s callous indifference puts ordinary Americans’ welfare at risk
As the COVID-19 death toll mounts, McConnell refuses to advocate for ordinary Americans.
Iran wags impeachment dog
Trump is blustering at Iran and to the world that we might just need to crush that pipsqueak terror country.
The case for obstruction of justice
There’s already more than enough evidence of probable cause to begin that impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump.