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...
On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued a speech attempting to characterize his legislative goals and tax cut bill as "populist." Despite significant contradictory analysis, the president claimed his efforts negativity affect wealthy individuals and aids...
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Planned obsolescence or built-in obsolescence in industrial design is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete, that is, unfashionable or no longer...
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...
We woke up this morning to the first government shutdown in four years.
The past few days, there has been little talk about anything else in the media, leaving many wondering what the effects of a...
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,...
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...
Well, it happened.
Early Saturday morning, Senate Republicans narrowly passed the most sweeping tax reform bill in three decades.
President Donald Trump is now steps away from his first legislative victory.
In the 51-49 vote requiring frenetic last-minute revision, Republicans...
Former Democratic presidential candidate--now New York City mayoral candidate--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among last year's other presidential contenders.
He wanted to give every American $1,000 from what he called the "Freedom Dividend."
Last year Yang partnered...
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight–two qualities the Trump administration did not believe were necessary.
Days before being sworn in, Biden outlined...
"I'm so tired of racism, bro."
According to Chicago police dashcam footage, this is what Tyler Lumar said outside the clinic he had just left in a fury after a doctor accused Lumar of reselling his...
Whenever there is a security breach compromising sensitive information, corporations affected typically offer free credit monitoring services for a specified period of time.
On Thursday, credit agency Equifax experienced a data breach that impacted at least 143 million...
$600.
Unless things change, that's all some of us will be getting from the 5,593-page $900 billion relief package Congress passed Monday night.
It is half what the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act delivered in April,...
If money talks, the Trump kids' lack of donations to their father’s presidential campaign speaks volumes. Despite the fact that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s children are frequent surrogates for their father, they have not dug...
When speaking to reporters last week about the historic and deadly Camp and Woolsey fires that have destroyed more than 100,000 acres and taken at least 44 lives, California Gov. Jerry Brown stated Californians--and the rest of the world--are facing a...
Even though it took him nearly a year, Donald Trump finally managed to get a bill through Congress this week. The infamous tax scam bill which will drastically cut tax rates for the ultra-rich and...
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...
President Obama was a great president for the poor. As The Atlantic notes, there were three main moves he made to reduce income inequality:
The Affordable Care Act reduced the rate of uninsured Americans from...
We here in real America should be growing accustomed to wearing masks in public, avoiding crowds, social distancing, and rubbing our hands raw with prodigious amounts of hand sanitizer.
We here in real America have to...
