In a conversation with a friend some years ago, he told me he tries to not make food decisions based on cost. His meaning was that he's not going to get a 12-inch sandwich simply...
One of the funniest moments of the 2016 campaign came when Donald Trump flew to Scotland to celebrate the grand re-opening of the historic Turnberry golf resort, which he'd bought three years earlier.
The ceremony took...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has signed a bill designed to delay Elizabeth Warren's progressive agency from starting its goals.
The agency, entitled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, seeks to regulate payday lenders. Its...
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...
"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...
"Believe me."
That's what President Donald Trump told supporters at a September 27 event in Indiana, referring to how much he stood to lose under the Republican tax plan that ultimately passed the House of Representatives on Thursday...
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...
Tax cuts.
The very mention of them sends shivers down conservative and progressive spines.
Progressives take issue with their tax dollars helping to perpetuate a military industrial complex and subsidies to fossil fuel corporations, while conservatives and...
While Our Attention Was On James Comey, House Republicans Were Setting Us Up For Another Financial Crash (VIDEO)
Ted Millar
Thursday, while we were watching the shiny Comey testimony, the Republican-led House of Representatives was capitalizing on our distraction fomenting another 2008-style financial crash.
House Republicans voted Thursday to pass the “Financial CHOICE Act” that begins...
Severe allergies are nothing to mess around with. They can turn any moment into a life-threatening situation at the drop of a hat. You have to be prepared for the worst. The cost of being prepared,...
Donald Trump insists that he can't release his tax returns because he's being audited. That was exposed as a transparent lie almost as soon as he peddled that excuse; the IRS said in February 2016...
From Wikipedia:
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...
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...
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...