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.
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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..."
Military contracting "obscures where and how taxpayer money flows," and "makes it difficult to know how many people are employed, injured, and killed.
Stephen Ubl, CEO of Big Pharma's leading trade group, complained about the modest price-negotiation requirements in the new Inflation Reduction Act, claiming that the legislation represents a "tragic loss for patients."
After Kansas voters defeated an anti-abortion amendment in a landslide, analysts are now sifting through that happy, massive Republican miscalculation to consider an unexpected new political reality for abortion and women's rights.
Ronald Reagan is gone, but his attacks on working class people roll on. Now they’re being carried on by Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, and all the rest of the multimillionaire GOP senators.
Republicans in Pennsylvania attacked a law, that they themselves had previously supported, in an attempt to undermine mail-in voting in the state. That attack has now failed.
The drug industry—which has repeatedly fought off price regulation attempts in recent decades—has lashed out furiously against Democrats' plan with deceptive and outright false ads in selected states.
Higher prices are not being driven by wage increases. They were not driven by federal assistance to people during the pandemic. And Democrats aren't to blame.