Sunday, April 19, 2026

Tag: economic inequality

Trump’s tariff chaos triggers global backlash, economic turmoil, and growing revolt...

Critics say president’s abrupt reversal on sweeping tariffs shows lack of coherent strategy and deepens damage to workers, consumers, and U.S. global standing.

GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax...

Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.

Is America’s $1 trillion defense budget defensible amid economic struggles?

Bernie Sanders challenges America’s staggering military budget, calling for reforms to address fraud, waste, and misplaced priorities.

Sanders backs potential VP pick Walz as champion for working families

Sanders endorses Minnesota governor Tim Walz as a potential vice-presidential pick, emphasizing his commitment to working families and progressive values.

Media that benefit from inequality prefer to talk about other things

As economic inequality surges in the US, major media outlets remain fixated on other economic issues, overshadowing a fundamental challenge to American society.

Billionaires don’t want you to know about this Supreme Court case

Judicial imbalance: unveiling the hidden conflict of interest in a pivotal Supreme Court case.

Tenants demand a national renters bill of rights amidst skyrocketing rents...

Rising up for housing justice: tenants unite to demand a national renters bill of rights.

Fearing government whitewash, scientists leak draft IPCC report urging bold emission...

"There is no point for us to just observe what a disaster is unfolding if nobody is doing anything about it."

Why the PRO Act is critical

The PRO Act alone won’t end economic inequality or return prosperity and opportunity to America’s working families. But passage of the PRO Act would help.

Linked dangers to civilization

Many of the serious dangers that we face today can be addressed by reforming our economic systems.

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3D-printed homes, an abandoned $590,000 deposit, the FBI: What really happened in this small...

Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished.

The axis of evil suffers a big loss

After Viktor Orban's landslide loss in Hungary, will Trump and even Putin be next in line for their political comeuppance?

The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...

How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.

The winner at the DNC’s latest meeting? Israel, ethnic cleansing and genocide

Why did pro-Israel groups voice so much pleasure and praise—not only for the sidelining of pro-human-rights resolutions but also for the process that sidelined them?

UN experts demand halt to arms transfers as Israel’s Lebanon strikes intensify and Senate...

Human rights investigators warn attacks undermine international law while U.S. lawmakers reject another attempt to curb expanding regional conflict.