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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"New Gilded Age" Reaches New Heights With World's Billionaires Owning Staggering $6 Trillion
In a new study, the Swiss financial firm UBS found that the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 17 percent in 2016, bringing their combined fortune to more than double the GDP of the United Kingdom.
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Too Poor to Vote: How Alabama's "New Poll Tax" Bars Thousands of People From Voting
In Alabama and eight other states from Nevada to Tennessee, anyone who has lost the right to vote cannot regain it until they pay off any outstanding court fines, legal fees and victim restitution.
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America’s Secretive Private Prison Industry Is About to Become Much Less Secret
Dilley, a remote Texas town of 4,000 people, has enjoyed a booming local economy thanks to its most controversial feature: its private prison.
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Global Atmospheric CO2 Levels Hit Record High
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased at record speed last year to hit a level not seen for more than three million years, the UN has warned.
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The Fight to Keep Arctic Oil In the Ground Heats Up In Norway, Part III
Earlier this summer, Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise ship entered the exclusion zone around the Statoil rig Songa Enabler, as activists from across the world took to inflatables and kayaks in protest against Norway's plans to pump oil to Hammerfest.
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An Independent Thinker’s Guide to the Tax Debate
For 40 years, tax cutters in Congress have told us, “we have a tax cut for you.” In exchange, we’ve gotten staggering inequality, collapsing public infrastructure, a fraying safety net, and exploding deficits – as the richest tenth of 1% get richer.
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Dependent on Denial – How the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial
A recent report reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill for more than $20 billion in fossil fuel subsidies each year.
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Why A Brexit "No Deal" Will Hit Poorest U.K. Households the Hardest
Leaving the E.U. without any trade deal would result in a sharp rise in the price of food, clothing and other basic goods, dealing a particular blow to those financially struggling families whom the prime minister said are "just about managing."
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The F.B.I.’s Black Phantom Menace
In a report that was never supposed to be made public, but was on Oct. 6 by foreignpolicy.org, the F.B.I.’s Counterterrorism Division has concluded that there is a real threat from the “black identity extremist” movement.
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British Banks Can’t Be Trusted – Let’s Nationalize Them
Our finance system is rigged in favor of a crisis-ridden City to reap profits for individuals. It’s time these institutions worked for the good of communities.
