As North Dakota faces world’s deadliest outbreak, native communities condemn states’ Covid response
“We have to travel to these territories where they’re not wearing masks, they’re not thinking about their neighbors who’ve been impacted.”
Wall Street Should Pay a Sales Tax, Too
When a high-rolling trader buys millions of dollars’ worth of stocks or derivatives, there’s no levy at all.
Trump’s big buyback bamboozle
We’re just going to have more buybacks and more inequality.
New budget deal preserves all 19 social spending programs Trump tried to eliminate
Economic relief agencies as well as support for arts and culture got nearly a five-month reprieve from the more radical cuts proposed in Trump’s budget.
Who’s anti-Bernie and why they’re wrong
An interview with Norman Solomon, author, activist and cofounder/national coordinator of RootsAction.org.
100+ groups urge Congress to back Sanders’ Yemen War Powers Resolution
"In an effort to renew this truce and further incentivize Saudi Arabia to stay at the negotiating table, we urge you to bring the War Powers Resolutions to end U.S. military participation in the Saudi-led coalition's war on Yemen."
Republican AGs, dark money groups scheme to sue over student debt relief
Conservatives are hoping right-wing courts will intervene to deny debt relief to tens of millions of borrowers.
What makes more sense, a minimum income tax or a maximum income?
The U.S. senator who chairs the GOP Senate campaign effort wants America’s poorest to pay up more at tax time.
Tell the FCC not to end net neutrality!
There’s still time. Please help stop this corporate power grab over what we can say and do online.
The trade deal crusaders: Can they never learn?
The TPP and other next generation trade deals are also about putting in place stronger and longer patent and copyright protections.