Under the guise of inflation, certain corporations excessively hiked prices far beyond what their costs necessitated, further driving inflation.
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Former president's "Big Lie" that he won the 2020 election has fueled the dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years. The very future of our nation depends on confronting that lie and voting.
One could get the idea that Dr. Oz might not actually qualify for the Senate since by hiring insurrectionists he has given "aid and comfort" to enemies of the United States.
The Workers' Party candidate, who completed a remarkable political comeback less than three years removed from a prison cell, tweeted one word following his win: "Democracy."
With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, experts say it's important for working-age Americans to know whether they are voting for officials who support Republican policies that increase the risk of early death.
This finding comes a month after Senate Republicans tanked a bill that would have required dark money groups to disclose their donors and funding sources.
The U.S. currently pays around $30 per dose for Pfizer's shot, which is estimated to cost $1.18 per dose to make. Yet the company plans to pump the price to $110–$130 per dose.
The Republican and Big Oil scheme includes price-gouging fossil fuel products while blaming the Democrats for high prices, raking in record profits, and then undermining efforts to shift to a renewable energy economy.
When you compare Trump's cons with the $50 trillion that the GOP has swindled out of the American working class and given to the top 1 percent since 1980, Trump looks like a piker.
The suit charges that oil companies including ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total have known since as far back as the early 1970s that burning fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases that cause global heating.
Trump's response to the Jan.6 Committee subpoena, "...is powerfully incriminating evidence that will be introduced against him when he's prosecuted. And those who helped him draft it are co-conspirators."
Spurred by Alex Jones' lies, his supporters subjected the parents of murdered children to menacing threats and merciless harassment, including accusing parents of faking their own children's deaths.
The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations.
Almost every private medicare insurance player has been accused of fraud by a whistleblower or the U.S. government. In addition, the vast majority are engaged in exaggerating patients' illnesses in order to reap more money from taxpayers.
Just when you thought you'd put a stake through its heart, fascism climbs out of its grave once more to suck the blood out of the body politic.
The Onion's amicus brief to the Supreme Court is a triple threat: masterfully written, draws attention to an important case that could easily skate by unnoticed, and nails the argument.