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Buried in Comey Memo Report: Trump Asked FBI Chief to Jail Journalists
Press freedom advocates on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump over revelations that he had asked former FBI director James Comey to consider putting journalists in jail—a startling detail that was…
Turkish guards desecrate hallowed ground at Sheridan Circle
Missing from the May 18 news article “Turkish guards’ violence denounced,” about Turkish security guards’ attacks on D.C. protesters, was any mention of the significance of the location: Sheridan Circle.…
Moving Past the Recession: Black Millennials Face Steep Challenges in Job Market
The Class of 2017 is facing the strongest labor market in nearly 10 years. According to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Rockefeller Foundation, the unemployment rate…
How Trump has made America great again
Although it has become cliché, it is also true: Donald Trump has made America great again. We are great in our resistance, great in our inventive placard-making, great in our…
Are Utahns’ wages increasing to reflect low unemployment?
The growth of income equality has been one of the big economic stories of the last five years. “Income disparities have become so pronounced that America’s top 10 percent now…
Blackonomics…Know better, do better, or no better for us
The National Urban League’s 2017 “State of Black America” report was released on May 2, 2017; it is titled, “Protect our Progress,” and again contains the “Inequality Index. Since 1963…
The Politics Of Big Philanthropy
Billionaires are changing the world. And there are many more of them in the ranks today than there were even 10 years ago. Philanthropy’s not new, but as inequality deepens,…
Tunnel collapses at Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington state
Hundreds of workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear site in Washington state had to “take cover” Tuesday morning after the collapse of 20-foot-long portion of a tunnel used…
This is exactly how much more CEOs get paid than the average American worker
The average chief executive of an S&P 500 company made $13.1 million per year in 2016 — equivalent to 347 times more money than the average worker, according to new…
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The collapse of a tunnel used to store radioactive waste at one of the most contaminated U.S. nuclear sites has raised concerns among watchdog groups and others who study the…
Trump passes up chance to ‘rip up’ Iran nuclear deal
US President Donald Trump passed up a chance to derail the nuclear deal with Iran on Wednesday, a move analysts said reflected business interests at home and diplomatic relations abroad.…
The Proposed Laptop Ban on Planes, Explained
The Trump administration is reportedly turning its attention to the specter of potential laptop bombs that could theoretically be carried onto commercial airline flights. On May 10, a day after…
Is this $1 billion scratch-card game everything that’s wrong with America?
When it comes to lottery prizes, $1 billion could be the new $1 million. Scientific Games Corp. SGMS, +1.45% last week announced a new “billion-dollar challenge” Willy Wonka Golden Ticket. The…
Winning By A Bye
US President Donald Trump’s hands, notably small in size, have often hogged the limelight in his meetings with foreign dignitaries. First, there was the 19-second scrimmage with Shinzo Abe during…
Phyllis Bennis speaks at the Climate March
Phyllis Bennis speaks to marchers at the Climate March in Washington, DC on April 29th, 2017 relating war, militarism and racism to climate justice. Watch more at the Institute for…
‘1 Percent of Taxpayers Receive More Than the Bottom 80 Percent’
Janine Jackson: The group ProPublica has exposed how efforts to make paying your taxes easy and free with a pre-filled filing from the government, as is done in parts of…
Millionaires to Trump: Keep Estate Tax
More than 50 multi-millionaires have signed a letter urging President Donald Trump and Congress to abandon their attempts to abolish the federal estate tax, the only tax on inherited wealth…
Coal Jobs Prove Lucrative, but Not for Those in the Mines
Glenn Kellow, the coal executive who led Peabody Energy through bankruptcy, just collected an estimated $15 million stock bonus. John Eaves at Arch Coal, another recently bankrupt coal giant, got…
Reinventing Capitalism with Joel Solomon’s ‘Clean Money Revolution’
These times call for courageous new thinking. Money is perhaps our biggest blind spot. We look at it very myopically. We ignore noticing what it is doing on behalf of…
Why Surround the White House?
Why am I going to Washington, DC next Saturday? Why do I want to join with others in the People’s Climate March to surround the White House? Why do I want to tell…
The No. 1 reason why Trump’s wall won’t fix the drug problem
As President Trump demands federal funding for a border wall he promised Mexico would pay for, he has leaned heavily on the argument that the wall is the only way to stop illegal drugs…
‘Another round of whack-a-mole’: Decoding the White House’s tough talk on cartels
International drug cartels are only able to impose violent chaos on the Western hemisphere because Americans’ demand for narcotics is so high, DHS head John Kelly told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday.…
Get Real About Preventing War
During further escalation of tensions between the United States and North Korea, pundits and other experts are trying to figure out what was behind the false information on the U.S.…
Weed Might Be the Only Thing Climate Change Won’t Ruin
In my research for this column, I’ve learned that climate change is going to flood New York City, ruin sushi and coffee, worsen immigration-related problems, and increase the size and quantity of some bugs. But here’s some good…
“We’re Not Leaving”: US Weighs Helping Saudis Bomb Yemen Even More
The U.S. is looking to increase support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen, officials said Wednesday—a move that some see as another signal that President Donald Trump is itching to take the U.S.…
As the Rest of Us Pay Our Taxes, Demand That Wall Street Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share
This week, millions of Americans finished filing their taxes, doing their part to fund public education, health care, public transportation, and more. And as usual, while many of us are paying…
Black and LGBTQ students face increased school-to-prison pipeline under Betsy DeVos
We knew that putting Betsy DeVos in charge of the Department of Education was a disaster waiting to happen and it was only a matter of time before things went…
Wells Fargo Knew About Fake Account Problem For 15 Years
“But I can promise that we are going to learn from these mistakes that are right there in black and white in this very exhaustive and thorough board report, and…
Trump’s wall won’t stop heroin from coming into the US
President Donald Trump has advertised his idea for a “big, beautiful wall” at the US-Mexico border by arguing it will stop the flow of drugs into the US — a…
