President Obama recently signed an Executive Order closing an old loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930 -- a loophole that allowed the U.S. to import goods made by the use of slave labor if...
Over the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump often vowed that if elected he would "drain the swamp" and eliminate the conflicts of interest between big money donors and Washington politicians. Here his...
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In the United States of America we have this wonderful document that we call The Bill of Rights. I'm sure you've heard of it. It guarantees all of us in this country certain freedoms. For example,...
Take a look and see how many of these interesting facts you were aware of! The iPhone     Since it was introduced in 2007, Apple has sold 516 million iPhones.That's more phones than the entire population of the...
It is unknown what post-COVID education will look like in America. Yet in a month colleges and universities are expected to begin their fall semesters. Harvard University has already decided to move all classes online. Yale is doing...
The Trump-Russian scandal may involve more than just our president. In fact, committing acts of treason seems to be a family affair involving all but one of his adult children. Ivanka President Donald Trump is known for his hotels....
May 18, 2016, was a big day for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He signed a deal with the Republican National Committee. This deal gave him access to a top notch fundraising operation that he...
Some of the most respected American economists have come together to oppose Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election. In an open letter, some 370 economists called the Republican presidential candidate “dangerous” and “destructive.” “He misinforms...
The Senate is expected very soon to vote on the Republican tax "reform" bill that passed the House of Representatives two weeks ago. Many fear it's going to pass. Those on the right are still trying to...
One of the ways Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, and ultimately the White House, was his opposition to other GOP contenders on Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, and the Iraq war. While the other Republicans--Jeb...
Protectionist trade policies aren't just good for American jobs. They're good for national security. As tensions heat up between the United States and China over Taiwanese independence, it's time re-evaluate who supplies us with the goods on...
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Last weekend, Martin "Pharma Bro" Shkreli had his dreams of a huge payday from gouging the price of two drugs derailed by the U. S. Attorney in Brooklyn. Shkreli was indicted on federal charges that...
The allure of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to many voters is that he's run a successful business. There's no denying that he is in fact incredibly wealthy, just not as much as he claims. Trump's...
President Obama has been trying to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership through Congress for a while now. Unfortunately for him, it seems to be going nowhere. Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are among those who...
We may not have been able to prevent Republican President-elect Donald Trump's election to the presidency, but we can still protest in a way that will surely get his attention: by hitting him in his...
Amid a number of CEOs exiting the groups since this past weekend, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday afternoon that he was ending his beleaguered manufacturing councils. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/897869174323728385 Trump explained that he didn't want to put...
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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,...
After forty long years, Reaganomics might finally be on its last leg. On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to raise taxes on Americans making more than $400,000 a year. Those familiar with Biden's moderate past understandably...
?I watched people who couldn't even afford to buy Tylenol for their sick child, and that broke my heart." -?Cyndi Murray, defacto Workers' Rights Educator, Walmart Cyndi Murray started working for Walmart 14 years ago...
Remember just before the new year when Donald Trump signed into law the Republican “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?” Basically, it was the tax bill that handed $1.5 trillion in permanent tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy like Trump and his...