The gulf between workers and employers was ever widening 150 years ago—and astronomical now. Today's resurgence of labor and unions is the counter-balance to this—which we just celebrated.
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DeSantis' racism has deep roots, from his racist 2018 gubernatorial campaign against (black) Democrat Andrew Gillum to his non-history book “Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," to his dismissal of slavery as a "personal flaw" of the Founders.
"You know it's good policy when Big Pharma is terrified of it." The price-negotiation process was set in motion by last year's passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which PhRMA spent tens of millions to defeat.
For decades, politicians promised to give Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices. President Biden is finally making it happen. This is the biggest defeat Big Pharma has ever suffered—and it won’t be the last.
Many of Augusto Pinochet's officers were involved in systematic and widespread human rights abuses after overthrowing the Chilean government. Some of these were contacts or agents of the CIA or U.S. military.
Noticeably escaping unscathed from the GOP debate debacle was Joe Biden, who happily embraced his no-malarkey alter-ego Dark Brandon.
While Saudi authorities are spending billions on PR, out of public view, Saudi border guards have killed Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers, including women and children, who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border.
How many migrants need to literally die on Greg Abbott's watch for us to treat what's happening at the Texas border as the national scandal that it should be?
In Trump's latest charges of obstruction of justice he has ignored a key Nixon lesson: It's not the crime, it's the coverup. He also seems to have missed the memo about conspiracies...
A Maui resident reported simply, "Lahaina is bad. We lost historic buildings. Front Street is gone."
Produced by Adam McKay, the director of "Don't Look Up," the ad assures viewers Chevron has "billions and billions of dollars to pay for this commercial time, this cheesy footage, and this bullshit music."
The Republican push for Issue 1 drew national attention given the implications for both the democratic process and reproductive rights in Ohio, where abortion is currently legal through 22 weeks of pregnancy.
The January 6 indictment is solid as granite, but leaves out the sole criminal prohibition that would disqualify former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot.
Aldean, it turns out, may be crazy about small towns, but he's not from one, nor does he live in one. He grew up in Macon, where he attended private school, and he lives in Nashville.
Trump's efforts to stop the Fulton County, Georgia DA have been tossed by the courts, again. Meanwhile Fanny Willis is apparently ready to go and security barriers have been erected around the court house.
Greg Abbott's edicts in Texas are causing migrants to get cut up by razor wire, children to drown, workers to die of heat stroke and women to endure failing pregnancies.