Nancy Pelosi proposes a tax rule that would shackle Democrats by requiring a supermajority to raise taxes on the bottom 80% of the population, thus effectively stymieing their ability to enact any major new spending programs.
Read more...Why is the media covering up that Deval Patrick became wealthy via asset-stripping at Bain Capital?
Read more...Young climate change activists and AOC push Pelosi for a Green New Deal, despite expected hostility in the Senate.
Read more...The IMF is back again, flexing its muscle in Argentina and Mexico, pushing the neoliberal Washington Consensus, says Vijay Prashad in this Real News Network interview.
Read more...Some emerging-market economies look wobbly. How likely are we to see more crises?
Read more...Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...Yet another embarrassment at CalPERS.
Read more...What role did the state of the economy likely play in the midterm results?
Read more...Boeing looks culpable for the Lion Air crash that killed 189 people.
Read more...CalPERS board members and staff have violated state conflict of interest rules to a degree that appears to be criminal.
Read more...The continuing rise in wealth of the super rich bodes ill for financial and social stability.
Read more...In typical Trump fashion, Trump managed to get himself in more trouble while trying to poke a stick in the eye of his opponents.
Read more...Even with health care polling as the top issue with voters, Trump is one of the loudest, but far from the only, politician out to demonize single payer.
Read more...More proof that the scandal involving CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations are not going away any time soon.
Read more...This important post discusses the link between climate change and increased plastics production via the creation of a Plastics Belt in the former Rust Belt, using natural gas derived from fracking.
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