Friday, July 17, 2026

Trump’s first test on taxes

Making America great doesn’t mean giving booster rockets to multi-generational dynasties of wealth. We need one tax system that’s fair to everyone.

“We won’t stop fighting”: Groups file new lawsuit to fight Keystone XL

“The Trump administration has proven to be just as reckless with our Constitutional separation of powers as this dangerous Keystone XL pipeline is to the safety of our water and climate.”

Testing Republican values

Progress towards the individual security of Americans and towards coordinated global achievement must continue.

Congress just passed $858 billion military budget, but GOP is blocking $12 billion to...

"This isn't using our taxpayer dollars wisely," said one analyst. "It's robbing programs that we need."
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Tim Robbins: Bernie Sanders is the best shot we have to defeat Donald Trump

"I believe he is the only one of them that can defeat Trump.”

National (in)security and the Pentagon budget

A post-coronavirus economy can no longer afford to put the Pentagon first.

The next subprime loan crisis

Wall Street is siphoning billions of investment dollars into high-risk, subprime auto loans.

Sanders, Jayapal, Dingell more than 120 colleagues in House and Senate reintroduce Medicare for...

"The American people understand, as I do, that health care is a human right, not a privilege."

What’s the point of satire anymore?

How can anyone satirize a presidency that gleefully flaunts its own awfulness every day?

STUDY: How TV news ignores the prescription drug price problem

A Media Matters review of weekday evening news coverage reveals the evening programs largely ignored the problem of escalating prescription drug prices.