If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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Web For All: Winning Internet Freedom Is A Central Battle for Real Democracy
The FCC is threatening to kill the Internet's innovative, information-democratizing potential because doing so serves the interests of the biggest corporations whose wealth dominates government.
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Why is Washington Still Protecting the Secret Political Power of Corporations?
Regulators at the SEC could illuminate the future of campaign donations – but they aren't interested in disclosing the truth, even though voters are.
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Letter from a Zillionaire: The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats
Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear and we will be back to late 18th-century France – before the revolution.
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In Breakthrough Decision, New York Court Rules That Towns Can Ban Fracking
The precedent-setting ruling Monday enables the towns of Dryden and Middlefield to use local zoning laws to outlaw oil and gas drilling within municipal borders.
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Supreme Court to American Public: Corporations Are Your New Gods
Corporations are our new gods. “Some animals are more equal than others.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm
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Disabled Activists In London Launch Tented Occupation to Oppose Threatened Cuts
They had little choice but direct action.
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No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
The government isn't allowed to wiretap American citizens without a warrant from a judge.
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New York Real Estate is the New Swiss Bank Account
Foreigners are flooding the market to stash, hide and launder their money.
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The Origins of Inequality: Ancient Roots of the 1%
Inequality has deep archaeological roots, but if existing traditional societies are any guide, our hunter-gatherer ancestors were mostly egalitarian – so how and when did so few begin to amass such wealth?
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Time for Rebellion: All Issues Lead to the Corrupting Influence of Money In Politics
Less than 1% of Americans contribute 80% of campaign funds – and the amount of political payback on a national level hovers around 40,000 times the original dollar amount given to a campaign.
