Alan Ranta, a music writer from Vancouver, had a hard time in the country this week. He was driving to Washington State to visit a music festival. At the border between the U.S. and Canada, he...
Do you wonder how banks became "too big to fail"? It's a phrase that's kicked around a lot in conversation, but there's a stark reality behind it. From Mother Jones:
The nation's 10 largest financial institutions?hold?54...
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For those who missed it, last week former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was indicted on federal charges that he orchestrated a massive conspiracy to flout federal mine safety and health standards at...
Now that we all have made--and broken--our New Year's resolutions, it's time to get real about our finances. Although the US has been recovering from the 2008 recession under Obama, recent studies have shown that...
When the Panama Papers came out recently, we found out that a lot of filthy rich individuals are trying to weasel out of paying their taxes. Famous people, world leaders, friends of world leaders. We...
Spinning moderator Neil Cavuto for a curve during Thursday's Fox Business Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump denied having made a statement Cavuto quoted from the New York Times leading into one of his questions for...
It turns out that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not just a complicated choice based on his divisive nature and his radicalized views of the world. He also has serious conflicts of interest that...
Donald Trump’s border wall government shutdown has now surpassed the four-week mark.
Never before in our nation's history have we seen a shutdown so long--or so crippling.
25 days and counting are having devastating consequences on the American economy...
With apologies to Keith Olbermann, it's been amply established that Martin Shkreli is the Worst Person in the World. For those who don't know, just hours after buying the rights to the anti-parasite drug Daraphim,...
Michael Moore missed Sweden in his travelogue “Where To Invade Next.” Here are 8 additional Democratic Socialist incentives to claim and bring back home.
On Tuesday, New York State Supreme Court ruled that the $40 million Trump University lawsuit will proceed to trial, leaving many of us to shake our heads yet again in trying to comprehend why America...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump guards his financial information closely. But documents detailing his business bankruptcies during the 1990s are now available online.
The documents, uploaded by BuzzFeed on Wednesday, were previously available only in the...
President Barack Obama has called Donald Trump out for preying on the fears of the working class and claims that Trump is exploiting them in order to boost his campaign.
In an interview with National Public...
Several tech companies are responding to President Donald Trump's travel ban, with figureheads in Silicon Valley allegedly penning a letter to urge his administration to be aware of the ban's ramifications. In the draft, the...
The CEO of the world's largest fast food chain recently gave?his support for an increase in the federal minimum wage.
McDonald's CEO Don Thompson mentioned his support for "legislation that moves forward" on increasing the minimum...
There is no shortage of encouragement and benevolence all around us during this global pandemic.
People get it we are all in this together.
No one embodies this sentiment more than those on the front line, like...
Many future American physicians have been training in Cuba for free. This fact exposes some fundamental flaws not only in the medical schools, but in the U.S. education system itself.
Profit-Oriented Healthcare
Not since Michael Moore’s 2007...
We've seen an alarming spike in hate crimes and hate-motivated incidents since Donald Trump's upset victory. It's naturally made a lot of people wonder--are we returning to the days when hate and bigotry could occur...
The government has been shut down! Move along nothing to see here. Really, there is not much to see because everything is closed. Want to see Lady Liberty in all her glory? Sorry, access denied....
This is getting scary, guys! President Donald Trump made a somewhat veiled threat to start a war with North Korea. He said:
"China will either decide to help us with North Korea or they won't. If they...
