As Job Gains Slow, the Fed and Congress Apply the Wrong Medicine
The economy is in imminent danger of slowing.
Selling Out Democracy for Political Influence
One year after January 6, corporations are once again filling the campaign coffers of politicians who tried to overthrow the last election.
Elizabeth Warren Supports Push to Expand Supreme Court
Sen. Warren and other supporters of the expansion plan would like to add four SCOTUS justices to the lineup.
‘End the Filibuster and Pass Gun Reform,’ Progressives Say on Sandy Hook Anniversary
Nine years after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, progressives call for gun reform.
What Our Forever Wars Really Cost You
Why is it so hard for so many in Washington to imagine spending the sort of money on our needs that they wouldn’t think twice about forking over to the…
Stop Calling the Military Budget a ‘Defense’ Budget
The ubiquitous use of phrases like “defense budget” and “defense spending” reinforces the false notion that equates the USA’s humongous military operations with defense.
Big Pharma Greed Is ‘Killing Americans,’ Sanders Says Outside Drug Lobby HQ
"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" asked Sen.…
Why Lindsey Graham Is Trying to Rescue Rahm Emanuel
Disgraced Democrat seeks support from GOP to outflank progressive opposition
Ralph Nader on the Beacon Rising From Capitol Hill
A new progressive association is making waves in Congress.
Nina Turner’s Loss Is Oligarchy’s Gain
The victory of a corporate Democrat over a progressive firebrand in northeast Ohio did nothing to resolve the wide and deep disparity of visions at the Democratic Party’s base nationwide.
Ralph Nader: Our Leaders Are Doing Nothing to Quash Corporate Crime
Neither Democrats or Republicans have raised the banner of tough “law and order” to counter rampaging corporate crime.
How Unemployment Insurance Fraud Exploded During the Pandemic
Bots filing bogus applications in bulk, teams of fraudsters in foreign countries making phony claims, online forums peddling how-to advice on identity theft: Inside the infrastructure of perhaps the largest…
Who’s Afraid of Nina Turner?
Nina Turner is very scary -- to power brokers who’ve been spending big money and political capital to keep her out of Congress.
Forever Wars Are a Cancer on Our Democracy
Who authorized America's forever wars? And why do they never end?
Nancy and Paul Pelosi Making Millions in Stock Trades in Companies She Actively Regulates
The Speaker, already one of the richest members in Congress, has become far richer through investment maneuvers in Big Tech, as she privately chats with their CEOs.