On Tuesday a divided nation will watch President Trump’s first State of the Union speech. With a booming economy and a decisive victory over Democrats in a government shut down face-off, President Donald Trump is ...
The three day government shutdown is on the verge of ending after enough Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to pass a three week extension of funding. In exchange the Republican party gave assurances that Congress ...
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” These are words allegedly uttered by Donald Trump, president of the United States and arguably the world’s most powerful man. And the world ...
“Are you comfortable with having Jared Kushner be the beneficiary of huge amounts of Israeli financing at the same time he’s overseeing U.S. foreign policy on Israel?” (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson, staff writer) President Donald Trump’s ...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday shut down a White House Commission that he had charged to investigate voter fraud. He then tasked the Department of Homeland Security with determining the next moves. The White House ...
2017 was a year to remember! Check out our 2017 timeline below for a refresher on everything that happened in an often chaotic and busy year. Our top 6 stories in 2017: I’m A Rape ...
“We hope today’s verdict begins the important work of teaching police and prosecutors to respect the line between lawbreaking and constitutionally protected protest.” (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) In a decision civil liberties groups applauded ...
If Democrats want to revive their party, they must reconsider the way they treat elections in the South. Jones’ election proved the South is not a lost cause and Democrats can’t afford to treat it ...
Black and youth voters turn out to vote for a Doug Jones win in Alabama. In a stunning upset, the Democrat Doug Jones has beaten his Donald Trump backed Republican rival Roy Moore in the ...
The president and the Republican Senate candidate he supports have so far avoided consequences of their alleged sexual misconduct, while Democratic leaders have stepped down. (Common Dreams, by Julia Conley) Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Thursday that ...
Maintaining Momentum Against the Tax Bill (Inequality.org, by Negin Owliaei) How do you pass a tax bill that hurts the bulk of your constituents while lining the pockets of the wealthy? Members of Congress have been ...
We must save the internet on December 14th! Our friends at vpnmentor.com created the below infographic to explain net neutrality and why it is so important. Please read, share and spread the infographic! Check out ...
Study found that candidate Trump’s plan would result in nearly 30,000 added deaths per year from all causes, while a plan put forth by Bernie Sanders would actually save 31,302 lives annually. (Common Dreams) A ...
Jessica Rosenworcel says it’s time to “roar” and “make a ruckus” to save the internet as we know it. (Common Dreams by Andrea Germanos) After one commissioner called the FCC’s newly-released plan to roll back net neutrality “worse than one could ...
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap alleges the group’s leadership is violating transparency laws and has excluded him from deliberations. Update, Nov. 9, 2017: Responses from Kris Kobach and Andrew Kossack, co-chair and executive director, respectively, ...
GOP Tax Cuts: In new letter, wealthy group denounces the GOP proposal, which “would disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals and corporations with provisions including repealing the estate tax, repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax, and slashing the ...
“The elite ranks of our billionaire class continue to pull apart from the rest of us,” a new Institute for Policy study analysis finds. (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) In the United States, the 400 richest individuals ...
Complaints by two former CIA employees against Christopher Sharpley are pending, but he testified he was “unaware” of them. (ProPublica,by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries) Two former CIA employees say the Trump administration’s nominee to be CIA inspector general ...
Rosamaria Hernandez is recovering in federal custody after her ambulance was stopped by border patrol agents in Texas. (Common Dreams, by Jessica Corbett) “Morally bankrupt & unspeakably cruel.” “Ruthless & relentless.” “Disgusting.” “Trump’s deportation force in ...
Tax cuts for the rich again… So-called “tax reform” would have the same result as health care repeal: millions lose their care, while millionaires get a tax break. (Other Words, by LeeAnn Hall) When Republican leaders ...
Democracy for America says Californians “deserve two senators who will be relentless allies in their battle to stand up to the White House and take bold action on social, racial, and economic justice.” California Senate ...
Donald Trump’s putdown of suffering Puerto Ricans reflects a mindset that has long afflicted the awesomely affluent. (by Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org) Only days after the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Donald Trump unleashed ...
Trump wants to repeal the estate tax and he’s using farmers to drum up support. (Inequality.org, Chuck Collins) Kip Tom, the Leesburg Indiana farmer who will stand today with President Trump complaining about the federal ...
An increasingly organized Antifa movement is on the rise. (Reveal News, By Will Carless) The Signal messages appear in staccato bursts: “We all in blac bloc bout to join.” “We in the streets.” Looking up ...
U.S. Customs has chosen 4 contractors to build 30-foot concrete prototypes of the Mexico border wall. (Reveal News, by Patrick Michels and Andrew Becker) President Donald Trump’s border wall came a little bit closer to reality on Thursday, as ...
Our media consolidation problem. (The Conversation, by Rodney Benson, New York University and Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania) On July 28, Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs bought a majority stake in The Atlantic. It’s the ...
ICE agents seek greater data mining ability with help from private sector. (Reveal News, By Patrick Michels / August 25, 2017) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for help from the private sector to gather ...
Politicians have stolen our right to vote before. They’ll do it again if they get the chance. (Other Words, Diallo Brooks) One October morning in Richmond, Virginia, 32-year old Joseph Cox watched his friends and neighbors go to the ...
“You do have to wonder when working-class Trump supporters will start to notice such things.” (CommonDreams.org, by Jake Johnson) Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has chosen ex-Goldman Sachs bankers to fill several key positions within ...
Shouldn’t the returns from at least part of our national wealth go to all citizens and not just the already rich? (Inequality.org, by Stewart Lansley) Many attempts to tackle inequality fall short because they fail to target ...
Think the CEOs of the largest phone, cable and internet companies should call all the shots when it comes to Net Neutrality? The Net Neutrality Debate. (FreePress.net, by Candace Clement) Think the CEOs of the ...
The real estate firm partially owned by the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been accused of promoting its connection to Trump to gain investors. (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) As questions about the Trump administration’s conflicts of ...
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student (Jared Kushner), he covered is now poised to become one of the ...
If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, it helps to study what happened in Kansas. (Chelsie Bright, Mills College) Six years before Trump was tweeting about stolen elections and unsubstantiated claims of millions ...
Documenting Hate’s catalogue of incidents captures the seeming ordinariness of many of them. (ProPublica, Joe Sexton) Last Wednesday, July 19, was something of a busy news day. There was word North Korea was making preparations ...
Trump Collusion: The billionaires who backed Trump are making out a lot better than Putin. by (Peter Certo, Otherwords.org) I’ve always been a little skeptical that there’d be a smoking gun about the Trump campaign’s ...
While Republicans are proposing severe cuts to low-income housing assistance, they are continuing to subsidize Blackstone and other private equity housing profiteers. (by Aditi Katti, Inequality.org) It was a brutally hot and humid day in the nation’s ...
Proposed federal wage chief, sued for not paying house cleaners. By Will Evans Reveal. This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco ...
People power wins in Atlantic City: “A ringing endorsement of the work done by community members to save their water system from a corporate takeover.” (Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Atlantic City, New Jersey’s city council ...
Tomorrow join 70,000 in fighting for net neutrality. (FreePress.Net) The Trump FCC — like the rest of this administration — is doing everything in its power to serve corporations and harm the rest of us. ...
Donald Trump sold two condos to Eric in April 2016 at a steep discount. But he doesn’t appear to be on the hook for gift taxes. (By ProPublica and The Real Deal). In April 2016, ...
On February 26, 1993 a truck bomb exploded in the underground parking garage below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City killing 6 Americans and injuring over a thousand more. To this ...
(Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Cezary Podkul, May 15, 2017) In the early 2000s, banks successfully sued to stop Iowa from limiting their ability to charge ATM fees to non-customers. They also fought off ...
(Reposted with permission from ANTIMEDIA) In a deal that will allow one broadcasting company to reach 72 percent of U.S. households through ownership of local news stations, it was reported this week that Sinclair Broadcast Group ...
Ibragim Todashev was a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers; aka the Boston Marathon bombers. Todashev was interviewed by the FBI several times. During his last interview with the FBI he was shot and killed by FBI agents who claim ...
Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Marcelo Rochabrun and Jessica Huseman. Update, May 1, 2017: The Department of Homeland Security updated its website on Monday, May 1, 2017 to include the name of Julie Kirchner ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The two American investigators felt a sense of foreboding that Sunday as they headed to an emergency meeting with their boss on the Iraqi air base. But they didn’t expect to be ...
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark gives a talk on the “American plutocracy” and the one ruling party, “the war party”, that governs the U.S.