Sunday, May 19, 2024

How payday lenders spent $1 million at a Trump resort – and cashed in

At the Trump Doral outside Miami, payday lenders celebrated the potential death of a rule intended to protect their customers. They couldn’t have done it without President Donald Trump and his latest deregulator, Kathleen Kraninger.

American workers seek trade enforcement, not protection

A good first step would be imposing Trade Expansion Act penalties that are as strong as American defense must be.

While pushing for corporate legal immunity, McConnell vows to block extension of boosted unemployment...

“Cutting back federal assistance at the height of the crisis would mean self-inflicted disaster, devastation, and additional deaths. That must not happen.”

How Americans Hate: 8-fold Increase in Islamophobic Crime Since 2000

We should never forget that hate is not just an emotion displayed by an ugly set of the mouth at a rally; it turns into broken noses and broken ribs and burned-down buildings.

What if Trump peaks in March, then staggers when a myriad of wheels fall...

What if the loser who scorns “losers” turns out to be the greatest loser in U.S. history?
video

How to beat Republicans at their own game

There’s nothing unfair about making our democracy fairer.

3 Reasons Flint’s Water Is Poisoned

Is Flint simply the story of a callous, politically motivated and irresponsible group of state and federal officials looking the other way? Is this story a one-off?

If ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’’ Means Too-Big-To-Jail’ It Should Mean ‘Too-Big-to-Be’

If the government really believes that banks like JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank and Wells Fargo are “too big to fail” because prosecuting their chief executives could lead to a new financial crisis, then those institutions are simply too big to allow to exist.

How Warren Buffett privately traded in stocks that Berkshire Hathaway was buying and selling

Confidential records show that, on at least three occasions, he sold millions of dollars of shares in stocks that Berkshire was trading.

Winning Georgia Senate seat, Sen. Raphael Warnock overcomes GOP push

More than 48 percent of Georgians voted for Herschel Walker, showing Republican loyalty in a battleground state.