We need more action on legislation that would ban Congressional stock trading. And fewer members of Congress in violation of the rules already on the books.
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Military contractors and arms manufacturers and other weapons industry players cash in as Congress adds billions to the Pentagon budget each year.
Facebook and Meta are actively helping mobilize an online army in Brazil that's peddling conspiracy theories about the integrity of the election and threatening a violent coup.
Modern conservatism extols rugged individualism while fashioning a mob of abject conformists who stick like iron filings to the mutterings of their icons.
Trump's continued endorsement and support of January 6th insurrectionists is hopefully being duly noted by the FBI and the staff of the House investigation. Aside from the obvious play at corruption, it is further evidence of his involvement.
If the world halted planet-heating pollution today, the Greenland ice sheet would still lose more than 3% of its mass in the coming decades. To prevent even worse outcomes, immediate climate action is needed.
Environmentalists hailed the proposal as a major improvement over the status quo, under which the EPA has been accused of "doing the bare minimum" to monitor and combat PFAS contamination.
Right-wing zealots are intent on hiding our history with a state-sponsored, Orwellian purging of knowledge. Last year, 1,586 books were banned in 86 school districts, affecting over two million students largely in the South.
Forgiving student loan debt is not a slap at anybody. It's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies.
The authors of a new study are calling on major banks including JPMorgan Chase and HSBC to end their funding of projects by oil and gas companies across Russia.
"It’s time we crack down on the big, price gouging corporations that are making record profits while jacking up prices for all of us," said John Fetterman, Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate.
New Jersey's Dr. Oz, running for the Senate in Pennsylvania is making classic desperation mistakes, unknowingly promoting his opponent's very popular positions in their completely inept attack ads.
The conservative narrative cycling around is that Governors Abbott and Ducey have "stuck it to the Dems" by "bringing the border crisis" to their front doors. In reality, groups have safely welcomed thousands of asylum seekers with dignity.
Media consolidation and the pouring of billions of dollars by conservative billionaires into a fake news infrastructure—like FOX News—has produced a crisis that threatens our country.
Presidential candidates spoke out in defense of Brazil's electronic voting system, which has been the target of baseless allegations of fraud by Bolsonaro and his allies. Sound familiar?
Reports of people facing severe health crises after being rejected for basic healthcare services and medications due to GOP abortion bans are "a harbinger of the threats faced by millions of women..."