The GOP’s voter suppression laws are a coordinated effort to turn back the clock on civil rights. The problem is that these laws are working. They need to be stopped before more states adopt them.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Celina, an old logging town about two hours northeast of Nashville, was primed for the drug trade. Four pharmacies sat within 1,000 feet of each other, at the crossing of two highways, dispensing millions of opioid pills.
If the House Oversight Committee is serious about getting to the bottom of the fossil fuel industry's longtime campaign to stymie climate policy, it should subpoena Charles Koch to testify before it.
Another new analysis details how Big Oil executives are suppressing production and boosting prices to maximize shareholder returns.
Republicans who voted against protecting diabetics from inflated insulin prices are clearly in the camp of corporate profits over human lives. This dramatically points to the dire necessity of finally instituting universal healthcare.
Traditionally nonpartisan school board campaigns have become polarized battlegrounds. Voters in next week’s Wisconsin races may set the tone for how contentious races across the country will become this year.
Putin’s Russia fits the bill of a fully fascist state. The political system is unquestionably authoritarian — some might say totalitarian.
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Meet the real cause of inflation. CEOs can't stop bragging on corporate earnings calls about jacking up prices on consumers to keep their profits soaring.
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina leads the pack of Members of Congress taking substantial donations from Big Pharma.
Wall Street financial institutions are directly complicit in undermining a climate-stable future by deciding to continue profiting from fossil fuel investments.
From the "not much of a surprise" department, Trump has a 7.5-hour gap in his phone logs from January 6th.
A group of people working from a plantation in South Carolina spread misinformation about the November 2020 election. These falsehoods have since become articles of faith for many Republicans.
Documents show that the Republican hearing witness opposing the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court headed a dark money group that promoted the January 6th insurrection.
The message from Charles Koch is clear. Fascism and authoritarian government are part of the Koch business model.
Big Oil might deny accountability for the consequences of their stake in Russia and the payments made to Putin's war chest, but they have always been more than happy to profit from their involvement.