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$6.5 Billion: A Low-Ball Estimate of the Walton Family's Haul After 16 Years of Bush, Obama, and Trump Tax Giveaways

With Steve Bannon in the Shadows, Brazil's Right-Wing Forces Accused of Illegal WhatsApp Propaganda Campaign to Lift Bolsonaro

Julia Conley, staff writer

"What we are facing here is an attempt at electoral fraud."

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Less Than Year After GOP Tax Scam, Six Biggest Banks Already Raked in $9 Billion in Extra Profits

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Wall Street's latest earning report provides further evidence of "just how...

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After Leaked Video, Sanders and Warren Demand Bezos Answer for Amazon's "Potentially Illegal" Union Busting

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We write to express our alarm at recent reports that your company is...

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Telecom Lobby Firms Subpoenaed to Lift 'Fog of Fraud and Spam' Surrounding FCC's Net Neutrality Comments

UPDATED: In Latest Fit of Censorship, Facebook Deletes Video Detailing Brutal Legacy of Christopher Columbus

At the Heart of Global Woes, 157 of World's 200 Richest Entities Are Now Corporations, Not Governments

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SCOTUS Lead Paint Ruling Could Open Door to Corporate Liability for Climate, Gun Violence, and Opioid Crises

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Vice President Mike Pence, and former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) greet one another before a meeting in McConnell's office in the U.S. Capitol July 10, 2018.

Amid Growing Outrage Over Confirmation Process, Corporate Powers Spending Millions to Help GOP Ram Through Pro-Business Kavanaugh

'Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist': Sanders Introduces Bill to Break Up Nation's Largest Wall Street Banks

'Sad Day for Democracy': Bowing to Restaurant Industry, DC Democrats Vote to Overturn Tipped Wage Increase Approved by Voters

This Is What It Looks and Sounds Like When Thousands of Amazon Workers Learn They Just Won $15 an Hour

'We Listened to Our Critics': Caving to Massive Pressure From Workers and Bernie Sanders, Amazon Hikes Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour

With Nation Transfixed By Kavanaugh Monstrosity, House GOP Votes to Give Rich Another $3 Trillion in Tax Cuts

Millions of Unwitting Americans Paying $1 Billion More for Dirty Coal Energy Each Year When Cleaner, Cheaper Sources Available

NYT Latest to Sue for FCC Documents as Demands Pile Up for Ajit Pai to Come Clean on Net Neutrality Comments

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On Hillary, Lloyd, Us and Them

For those puzzled by the rancor and mistrust so many feel for Hillary Clinton, a lucid Matt Taibbi looks at Clinton's $675,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs to reveal they're about not just money but allegiance. Turns out Clinton declared that "banker-bashing (was) foolish," it takes a village to get out of a financial crisis (in fact caused by a few greedy oligarchs), and public anger is something "we" - oligarchs and Clintons - need to wait out.

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Public Citizen

Renegotiated NAFTA Deal: Improvements on Some Key Demands and More Work Needed

Food & Water Watch

Food & Water Watch Applauds Sen. Booker’s Groundbreaking Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium Bill

US PIRG

One Year After Discovering Its Breach of Your Data, Equifax Still Hasn’t Paid a Price

Public Citizen

Penalties for Corporate Violations Plummet by Double Digits Under Trump

Earthrights International

Court Dismisses Frivolous and “Dangerously Broad” Lawsuit Against NGO BankTrack for Opposing Dakota Access Pipeline

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Advocates for Commercial-Free Schools Cheer as Channel One Signs Of

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Chris Hedges

The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Either Tyranny or Revolution

Robert Weissman

'Tough on Crime' Jeff Sessions Touts Plummeting Corporate Crime Enforcement Like It's an Achievement

Jeff Bryant

How the Wealthy Destroy Public Schools, One Gift at a Time

Matt Taibbi

Trump Is Just One Player in a Much, Much Larger Tax Story

Robert Reich

Living in the New Guilded Age

Ralph Nader

Let’s Start a Kavanaugh Watch to Check All Five Corporate Judges

Mark Weisbrot

Presidential Election Is About a Fight for Democracy in Brazil

Jim Hightower

Poverty Is Over! So Why Are Republicans So Quiet About Their Chief Economic Accomplishment?

Sam Pizzigati

Share the Wealth? We Can Start Now – Here’s How

Isaiah J. Poole

Why We Have To Break Up Amazon

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