We know that more than half of the U. S. population is convinced that Donald Trump is a loose cannon on the deck of the ship of state. Now we know that some of our...
Pew Research Center just released a new study that shed light on how America's economic problem in the metropolitan area have opened the door for political polar opposites Donald Trump (R- NY) and Bernie Sanders (D-VT).
It's...
When President Obama announced he was dropping the hammer on Russia for launching cybertacks to influence the presidential election, Donald Trump harrumphed that we ought to just "get on with our lives." But in light...
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Today "unexpectedly" Japan slid back into recession. Some people say it is only the "first shoe" of many to come. The world economy seems to be falling apart again.
Both The Huffington Post and...
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...
Reagan's Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Were The Biggest Political Scam In The History of The United States
The Republican theory that tax cuts for the wealthy (better known as "Reaganomics") will trickle down to us...
815 million people around the world went hungry last year.
This, according to the latest data from the United Nations, is the first increase in global hunger in more than 15 years.
Sweeping initiatives from nations all...
Well, it happened.
Despite overwhelming opposition (including a bomb threat that temporarily evacuated the hearing room), and requests for delay from 18 state attorneys over concerns of a corrupted public comment process, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday repealed regulations protecting...
Since the inaugural days of the Trump Administration, it’s been clear that they’re not big fans of the arts. The only books Trump knows of, after all, are The Holy Bible and The Art of...
They're at it again.
As if the proposed Senate Republican tax plan did not put enough targets on average Americans' backs, according to multiple reports, the revised bill includes another insult: repeal the Affordable Care Act's, aka Obamacare, individual...
Well, they did it.
Thursday, congressional Republicans passed a non-binding budget resolution that threatens to cut $473 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid so the top one percent of the population can enjoy a $1.5 trillion...
We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays.
Hunger.
In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief...
Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives.
They hold a narrow majority in the Senate.
They have the White House.
So why are they bowing to republicans?
At a carpenters’ training center outside Pittsburgh, Pa. last month,...
As musician Bob Dylan sang in 1964, "The times they are a-changing."
In January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported union membership in the United States in 2021 at 10.3 percent while the number of unionized...
Amid the glaring problems with the Republicans' rewrite of our tax code, there is another issue that should concern us--time.
Is there enough of it to allow America to adjust to the changes since several provisions in...
The House will be voting on the American Healthcare Act, aka "Trumpcare" next week, and despite what we've been told, it's not a sure thing. As the day of the vote draws near, more and...
Republicans love to tout "local control," "states' rights," and "smaller government."
You've heard the talking points:
"Let the states decide their own gun control laws."
"The federal government is not in the education business."
"It's not the government's job...
By definition, criminal law is the legislation of a state or country dealing with criminal offenses and their punishments.?Over a dozen states have decriminalized marijuana with both Colorado and Washington state making it entirely legal.?There...
Earlier this week, as part of an interview he gave to Fox News, Donald Trump announced he had just learned that Ford Motor Company was about to "fire all their employees in the United States and...move...
It takes a village to raise a child, but the village better not be filled with Republican lawmakers. The State of Kansas has underfunded its schools for at least six years. There have been efforts to raise the...
