It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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50 Cities Urge Obama to Act Against Climate Chaos
Newton, Mass., became the 50th city urging the president and the EPA to make full use of the Clean Air Act to reduce carbon in the atmosphere.
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Revealed: The Lyndon Johnson Tapes and the Costs of War
Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls allow us to hear his private conversations as the Democratic Party tore itself apart over the question of Vietnam.
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The Shame of America’s Gulag
Until we slay the beast of corporate capitalism, our prison industry and the horror it perpetuates will only expand.
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North Carolina Report: Fossil Fuel Tyrants Rewrite Law to Kill Clean Energy
The "Electricity Freedom Act," pushed by ALEC, would fully repeal the state's renewable portfolio standard that requires utilities to generate power from cleaner sources.
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Getting Cooperative in the New Economy
While Wall Street banks are on a trend of corporate mergers and acquisitions, Main Street businesses are generating community wealth while undergoing a transition of their own.
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The Latest Victims of Justice Department Overreach
Andrew ‘weev’ Auernheimer was sentenced Monday to 3.5 years in prison for revealing to the media that AT&T had configured its servers to allow access to iPad owners’ unsecured email addresses.
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1 Decade of War = 330,000 Killed, $4 Trillion in Costs
There is no turning the page on the wars of the last decade. The human costs of these conflicts will reverberate for years to come.
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Detroit Citizens Prepare to Fight Their Corporate Master
With his appointment of a new emergency financial manager, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is transforming Detroit into an occupied colony within the State.
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The Great European Fire Sale
An economic crisis that many proclaimed as the "death of neoliberalism" has instead been used to entrench neoliberalism.
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Ten Years Ago and Today: A Warfare State of Mind
A decade after the invasion of Iraq, don’t expect the vast numbers of media hotshots and U.S. officials who propelled that catastrophe to utter a word of regret.
