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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Bank Closures In Britain Takes Its Toll On Vulnerable Consumers
More and more local branches of banks are closing their doors throughout the U.K., many in rural and less affluent communities, which is having a direct financial impact on residents nationwide.
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Cambridge Analytica Boasts of Dirty Tricks to Swing Elections
The company at the centre of the Facebook data breach boasted of using honey traps, fake news campaigns and operations with ex-spies to swing election campaigns around the world, a new investigation reveals.
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The War On the Post Office
The U.S. Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding to survive. Postal banking could fill that need.
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Make America Grate Again: Why The Trump Tax Cuts Are Bad for Democracy
What they really do is inflate the national debt while concentrating wealth and political power into fewer and fewer hands.
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'We Must Protect the Water': Indigenous Leaders and Allies Stage Sit-In to Protest Kinder Morgan Pipeline
The protest follows the massive march against the expansion of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline that brought 10,000 people to the streets of British Columbia last weekend.
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The Assault on Environmental Protest
More than 50 state bills that would criminalize protest, deter political participation, and curtail freedom of association have been introduced across the country in the past two years.
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Stansted 17 On Trial: U.K. Protesters Face Terrorism Charges For Helping Save Migrants
One year ago, 17 people locked themselves on to a deportation charter flight at London Stansted Airport, grounding a plan that would have sent 59 people back to face reprisal – and possibly death – in Ghana and Nigeria. Now, those activists could face life imprisonment.
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How the Anti-Democracy Movement Used Media to Command the Narrative
The deregulation of media in the 1990s illustrates the effectiveness of the Anti-Democracy Movement in convincing Republicans and Democrats alike that a narrow, market-driven, anti-government approach was imperative—even if it led to oligopoly.
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Koch Document Reveals Laundry List of Policy Victories Extracted from the Trump Administration
“This year, thanks in part to research and outreach efforts across institutions, we have seen progress on many regulatory priorities this Network has championed for years,” the Koch brothers' memo notes, detailing victory after victory.
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"Enough": U.S. Students Come Together In Spectacular Walkout To End Gun Violence
In a stunning visual riposte to the public inertia that has followed mass shootings in America, crowds of students at an estimated 3,000 schools across the country marched on to running tracks, through parking lots and around building perimeters.
