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.

​The simple reality is that in every country that’s slid from democracy into strongman rule over the past half-century, the first step was capture of the media by friends of the regime.

Ahead of Luigi Mangione’s sentencing, the Last Week Tonight host looked into the corporate healthcare behemoth that is UnitedHealth Group

They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political power.

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

Trump and his minions are letting Wall Street run wild. What could possibly go wrong?

America’s defenses are being drained, Ukraine is being abandoned, and Russia and Iran are growing stronger. At what point does incompetence stop being an explanation?

In one of the most obscene segments ever aired on Fox “News,” our billionaire Treasury Secretary this week said the inflation Americans are suffering is Ukraine’s fault because, in response to Putin’s...

​Democratic leadership's refusal to pursue impeachment signals to Trump that he has two-plus unchallenged years to ravage the lives and livelihoods of millions of people here and abroad.

Rewarding the most dishonest

The tax gap: What it is and why it matters

Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin

No one should be confused: cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits to reduce the deficit is not a moderate position. It’s one that attacks hundreds of millions of ordinary workers to avoid taxin...

No one should be confused: cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits to reduce the deficit is not a moderate position. It’s one that attacks hundreds of millions of ordinary workers to avoid taxing the rich or reducing waste in our health care system.

Top AI executive faces backlash for calling Social Security "accounting fraud" that must be dismantled. Critics slam tone-deaf messaging.

The party of “fiscal responsibility” has exploded our national debt, but if Democrats take back Congress and the White House, Republicans will start shouting deficit calamity like clockwork

The only valid reason for such a meeting, said one critic, would be for the House Minority Leader to tell the president's son-in-law that he’ll be subpoenaed by "for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House."

My thoughts on why he's a bad choice and another fundraising ask

The international corporate tax system treats the subsidiaries of major corporations as independent businesses, allowing these companies to pay tax where they say and not where they actually play.

From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now-habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful.

The Democratic base is fed up with a system that gives inordinate power to the wealthy and to large corporations.

The fake think tank has churned out over 100 reports since it started publishing on August 6. So what are they really up to?

Why Trump is eviscerating the military

Right-wing think tank the Cato Institute calculates $40 trillion in savings from Medicare for All

What tax history teaches us about this dire moment

The centrist organization is spending millions of dollars of corporate money on a campaign to manufacture right-wing talking points to flood the media.

Power in the Age of Oligarchy. Third part of a 3-part series.

Medicare for all won't work. Throwing cash at health insurance can't give us healthcare.

And it's not even close. If anyone is wondering, I did not forget to put the Biden numbers on the graph. They are just too small to be visible next to the Trump graft numbers.

A health insurance industry group run by Republican consultants made its only disclosed 2024 donation to the centrist Third Way, according to a tax filing by the group.

And how to disempower the oligarchy

"He fired the real watchdogs, tried to gut their budgets, and now he's stuffing his own political operatives into the offices built to investigate his administration’s wrongdoing."

On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.