Thursday, November 12, 2026

Ballot measure added in San Francisco to increase taxes on corporations with large CEO-worker...

“We believe that big corporations that can afford to pay their executives million-dollar salaries every year can afford to pay their fair share in taxes to help us recover.”
PDVSA's El Palito refinery in Carabobo, Venezuela. Photo: Marive Casimiro / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The US has struck a deal to control Venezuela’s oil reserves. It probably won’t...

As more details emerge about this controversial deal, big questions remain about what it could mean – both for oil markets and Venezuela’s national sovereignty.

Canadian prime minister bans assault weapons 7 days after series of shootings

"There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada."

Yesterday’s People’s Climate March was a huge success

The People’s Climate March creates awareness of the importance of acknowledging climate change and criticizes the Trump administration for their efforts to ignore it.

How to ‘follow the money’ in a political campaign

The donors who help shape this country deserve as much scrutiny and publicity as the politicians they support. After all, this country belongs to us.

How the rich and their right-wing cronies plot to break working people

They’re plotting to hijack democracy and put working people under the feet of CEOs, the ultra-wealthy, and other Republican fanatics.
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Sens. Sanders and Warren tout progressive vision for 2020 as 2nd democratic debate kicks...

Ten candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage in Detroit last night in the first of a two-night CNN-hosted...

“We are still here”: Native Americans win a voice in government

In light of important midterm election wins, two Native journalists revisit the influence of Indigenous peoples on democracy through the ages.

Joe Biden’s relapse into hallucinations about GOP leaders

In his recurrent search for cooperation, Biden seems eager for his Republican foes to like him. It’s a ridiculous and dangerous quest.

Sanders calls on ‘do-nothing’ Senate to approve $2,000 monthly checks, cancel rent, and expand...

“This I know: nothing will happen unless the American people stand up, fight back, and demand, in overwhelming numbers, that the Senate act.”