Money Over People

How we went from the Founder's vision to the billionaire takeover of Democracy.

Taken together, many of Trump’s proposed policies may fuel another “inflation nightmare.”

America is the only developed country in the world that’s allowed an unaccountable, unelected Supreme Court to hand its political system over to its richest citizens.

While we struggle, they scheme—how a Trump crash could line the pockets of America’s elite.

With every investment home billionaires and investment firms snatch, the dream of owning a house slips further away from you and every other person who wants to own a home.

Republicans worship cheap labor—and having a steady and reliable supply of cheap labor requires widespread poverty.

These seven corporations are among the most egregious underminers of democracy around the world, but they are hardly alone.

So far, more than 42,000 public service employees have lost union representation because of the anti-union law DeSantis signed in 2023.

Insurance coverage for abortion care in the U.S. is a hodgepodge. Patients often don’t know when or if a procedure or abortion pills are covered, and the proliferation of abortion bans has exacerbated the confusion.

Full-time teachers are having to take additional part-time jobs to make ends meet. So is there any question of why we have a shortage teachers?

Vincent Wasney had three epileptic seizures near the end of a Royal Caribbean cruise to the Bahamas. While being evacuated, he received a bill for medical expenses incurred during the cruise.

Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.

Some people have all the luck ... and an outrageously large share of the wealth the rest of us have created.

A dollar by dollar look at how our taxes enrich military contractors—at the expense of things that actually make us secure.

The 2017 Republican tax law slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent and failed to close loopholes that whittle down IRS bills even further. Many corporations ended up paying no federal taxes at all.

An investigation into for-profit nursing homes revealed an industry that places a premium on cost cutting and big profits, with low staffing and poor quality, often to the detriment of patient well-being.