Last week was a good one for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. On Tuesday, agents at Pharr International Bridge in McAllen, TX, stopped a truck carrying a shipment of frozen strawberries. Upon further inspection, they discovered the trailer contained 906 pounds of...
President Donald Trump reiterated calls for a physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, linking immigration with crime and repeating much of the same divisive rhetoric and misinformation that prompted the 35-day...
The number of murders in Mexico rose by 33 percent in 2018, the second consecutive year in which the country has broken the record for its homicide rate as it continues its grim battle with cartel-related violence. … Read the full article at Think...
Bloodthirsty smugglers are using Lamborghini/tank hybrids to ferry drugs and misery into the United States. The brave men and women of U.S. law enforcement are totally outgunned. Only a wall will stop the smugglers and the destruction they bring. … Read the full...
The odds are good that environmental groups will stop receiving threatening letters from congressional leaders starting next month — letters demanding information about their alleged ties to foreign governments — when the Democrats take control of the House of...
Two leaders of the House Natural Resources Committee are continuing their crusade against environmental groups. This time they are targeting the World Resources Institute (WRI), a well-respected international environmental and climate research group, over its...
Congressional Republicans and President Trump continue to push their sole legislative accomplishment, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, as a game-changer for average working Americans — but the benefits of that bill appear to be going mostly to the people at the top....
A top congressional Republican is ratcheting up his campaign against prominent U.S. environmental organizations, an effort critics are likening to a return of McCarthyism. So far, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) has singled out two...
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized thousands of Americans in an anti-poverty effort popularly known as the Poor People’s Campaign, a group of progressives want to revive the effort on the heels of a...
You’ve read the stories. An eighth grader was locked up for throwing skittles on a schoolbus. A 6-year-old girl was handcuffed for taking candy from a teacher’s desk. An officer slammed and dragged a high school girl, because she wouldn’t put her phone down. A Texas...
Black Lives Matter (BLM) just launched a database of black businesses to support, with the goal of “[building] long-term economic power for Black communities.” On Monday, the organization unveiled backingblackbusiness.com, an interactive map and directory of online...
The pay gap between what CEOs make and what they pay their workers is pretty well known. A new report released on Wednesday illuminates a different gap: that between what CEOs have stashed away for retirement and what their workers have been able to amass. The report...
Out of the spots on an annual list of the highest-paid CEOs, nearly four in ten have gone to individuals who were eventually “Bailed Out, Booted, Busted,” according to the 2013 edition of the Institute for Policy Studies’ (IPS) review of CEO pay and...
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies and Campaign for America’s Future finds that 90 member firms took in somewhere between $953 million and $1.6 billion through the ability to deduct performance pay from corporate taxes between 2009 and 2011. The...
“These CEOs have little cause for concern if government retirement assistance is cut, as they have millions of dollars squirreled away in their personal retirement accounts.”
