Trump’s profiteering is only the latest chapter in a decades-long transfer of American wealth and political power into the hands of billionaires…

The Lesson here?

Nonviolent rebellion has proven again and again to be the most effective way of ousting even a determined autocrat.

The golden statue, named The Orange Plague, is now at the European Parliament.

Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.

A worldwide backlash against oligarchy is gathering force, while America’s richest pour fortunes into keeping voters angry at everyone but them…

If there’s no other way

California leaders are furious after the president suggested that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay.”

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Corruption is a Trump family affair

Can we reverse the power shift that began four decades ago? This is the biggest question lurking behind the midterm campaigns.

As exposed in a recent Salon report on PEN America’s tracking data, censorship groups are no longer even pretending to target "inappropriate" material

On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...

On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...

The power of kitchen-table economics

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The surest way to escape oil shocks, dictatorial petrostates, and endless energy wars is brutally simple: stop consuming and subsidizing their oil….

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On Sunday, October 4th, movement leaders, artists, and issue experts will come together in New York City for a special Hands Off Our Vote live and nationally live-streamed event. It will inspire and m...

“I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes,” Trump said of invoking the Insurrection Act.

The nightmare

The deeper story isn't the $500. It’s what happens to democracy when politicians steeped in pay-to-play politics start treating ordinary citizens like one more constituency to be won over with money…

A record-high ocean temperature has been measured in a key El Niño region of the Pacific Ocean, and scientists say it likely hasn't reached its peak.

On Sunday, October 4th, movement leaders, artists, and issue experts will come together in New York City for a special Hands Off Our Vote live and nationally live-streamed event. It will inspire and m...

Friends,

Trump has figured out that he can force USPS into an all-purpose surveillance state by installing cameras.

The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system…

Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was correcting the president’s biggest lies.

From Harding’s trickle-down promises to Hoover’s prosperity pitch to Reagan’s tax cut hustle to Trump’s factory announcements, Republicans have a long history of pushing scams before Election Day…

Everything is terrible in Trump’s America, but it’s important not to forget that it is also very stupid. It turns out that when you let a mush-brained despot like President Donald Trump back into the…

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Because he fears he can’t prevail any other way

Not because they’ll help Republican candidates

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The White House now wants to embed itself in your phone with its official app.

Because he fears he can’t prevail any other way

Create the crisis, make working Americans suffer, reward the billionaires, blame Democrats for the wreckage, then campaign as the only people who can fix it.

Here comes the Supreme Court’s faithful conservatives, riding to President Donald Trump’s rescue. They’re eager to remind us all that democracy doesn’t matter, laws don’t matter, the balance of powers...

What separates Trump voters who consider themselves MAGA from Trump voters who do not?

The Founders failed to create a true Democracy. Let’s win, then demand one.

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Looking toward November 3

Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.

Trump is attacking freedom of the press from every angle – and we need your voice to stop it. I just signed a Common Cause petition to Restore Public Media Funding. I hope that you will, too.