Economy

As AT&T-Time Warner Close Deal, Floodgates 'Wide Open' for Corporate Mega-Mergers

How Can World's Richest Man Jeff Bezos Give Back? Staffers at the Washington Post Think Decent Wages and Benefits Would Be Good Start

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"All we are asking for is fairness for each and every employee who contributed to this company's success: fair wages; fair benefits for retirement, family leave and healthcare; and a fair amount of job security."

World's Millionaires and Billionaires Now Control Half the World's Personal Wealth, New Analysis Shows

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"The rich are getting a lot richer and doing so a lot faster."

Sounding Alarm Over Possible #GOPTaxScam 2.0, 130 Groups Warn Lawmakers Against 'Another Massive Tax Cut' for Wealthy

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A woman holds a sign at a protest of the "Trump tax scam" on Dec.4, 2017. (Photo: CDEL Family/flickr/cc)

New letter warns of conservatives seeing "an excuse for still deeper cuts" to...

'Media-Telecom Behemoth' Created as AT&T-Time Warner Merger Approved

In the US, Real Flying Cars Are a Thing But 'Very Serious People' Still Say Medicare for All 'Too Expensive'

Puerto Rican Day Parade Calls Attention to Plight of Hurricane Victims and Demands End to Deadly Austerity

Elizabeth Warren: Democrats Will Keep Losing Until the Entire Party Is 'Willing to Take on the Billionaire Class'

Fuming at Trudeau, Trump Trade Adviser Warns 'There's a Special Place in Hell' for Those Who Dare to Defy the President

'US Officially in Trade War With Canada' as Trump Doubles Down on Reckless Tariffs

Warren and Wyden Call for Insider Trading Probe After Trump's "Reckless" Jobs Report Tweet

'Catastrophe' for Poor and Vulnerable as Trumpian Doug Ford Wins in Ontario

To Keep 'Internet Free and Open for All,' Democrats Demand Paul Ryan Schedule Net Neutrality Vote Immediately

After Just a Few Months, Trump's Solar Tariffs Blamed for Billions in Shelved Clean Energy Projects

'Jaw-Dropping' Report Reveals Rampant Wage Theft Among Top US Corporations

Despite Rightwing Myths, Experts Say Now Is Time to Expand Social Security

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Trump's Version of Winning the War Is Evicting Older and Vulnerable Tenants To Make More Money

About that grotesque mural of Dear Leader at the kids' internment camp in Texas with the quote, “Sometimes losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.” Turns out the quote, from "Art of the Deal," references his failed 1981 move to evict tenants from their homes to build glitzy condos. Lawsuits charged him with super slimy tactics from "threats of imminent demolition” to cutting off services to attempted blackmail about tenants' sex lives. Once, they would have been hard to believe.