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...
Pope Francis has come out and said that we need to end tax exempt statuses of churches and church buildings that don't help the needy. He specifically mentioned religious institutions that are using loopholes to avoid...
In the 1930s, our 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, embarked on a bold initiative.
Lifting the nation from the Great Depression's doldrums required more than peace-meal policies that basically kept the system humming along as it...
There are concerns that President Donald Trump is about to pull funding from Tibetans in exile for 2018. The worrying reports come at the same time that talks of a possible meeting between the Dalai Lama and...
Donald Trump is moving.
No, not out of the White House.
Not yet. (It's coming.)
Like millions of septuagenarians, he's relocating to Florida because New York is just too damn expensive.
According to documents filed with the Palm Beach...
As he does with everything, we now know that Donald Trump lied about the deal he made with Carrier. He claimed he had helped save 1,100 jobs at the Indiana assembly plant, but it later...
Johann Rupert is the son of South African Tycoon Anton Rupert. His wealth, combined with his family's, is estimated at around $7.7 billion. He is ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the 5 richest...
If there’s one thing that has come through loud and clear so far in the GOP race for the 2016 nomination, it’s the absurd slogan of Donald Trump which he continually repeats and has plastered...
The latest in Chris Christie news.?What terrible timing for Chris Christie's op-ed to run in The Wall Street Journal.
Chris Christie is now looking hypocritical at best; the focus of his op-ed published in The Wall...
Republicans love to tout "smaller government" and "protecting small business owners."
Well, if the facade hasn't fallen away yet, perhaps the next installment of targeted genocide against the poor emanating from the Trump administration will deliver the message.
The Office of...
Thursday on Twitter, President Donald Trump shared a graph from a Bloomberg article which stated that U.S. Consumer Comfort just reached it's highest level in over ten years. Of course, Trump took credit for the rise...
For a third year, Walmart employees are planning to protest on Black Friday. Previous years proved to have little impact on the corporate giant; however, this year is primed to be the largest Black Friday...
For some time, the right's attempts to win over minority voters has focused mostly on social issues--the same playbook that has conned white evangelicals into voting for anything with an "R" next to it. Recently,...
Fox News is losing its sh*t now that the $15 minimum wage is law in California, New York, and a dozen major cities across the United States. They're trotting out senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano...
President Obama met with foreign leaders Sunday in what is likely to be his final foreign summit before leaving office in January.
At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru, Obama said that he may...
Do you remember when gas prices were around $4 per gallon? Do you remember watching the news with absolute terror as the cost of oil escalated seemingly every day? Well, Pepperidge Farm remembers, as do...
I’m not a violent person, but sometimes I wish I could paddle the Republican Party like a strict headmaster at an old-time English boarding school. Especially in this case, because endangering our already strained financial...
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...
For two weeks, the New York City Taxi Workers’ Alliance (NYTWA) members have been engaged in a hunger strike outside City Hall demanding Mayor Bill de Blasio grant debt relief for the taxi medallion price...
There is no shortage of critics of the Republican "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act;" i.e., the tax bill that hands $1.5 trillion in permanent tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy like President Trump and his ilk.
Even Sen. Marco...
