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If Inequality Continues to Grow at Current Rate, Richest Americans Will Own 100% of US Wealth in 33 Years: Analysis

Boris Johnson—Denounced as "Liar, Racist, and Donald Trump's Poodle"—Elected New UK Prime Minister

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Around 100,000 Tory Party members have inflicted on us a prime minister with a record of bigotry, racism, lying, and incompetence, Boris Johnson," declared Green Party MP Caroline Lucas. "This is not democracy."

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'Eye-Popping': Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion in Wealth Since 1989 While Bottom Half Lost $900 Billion

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"The top one percent owns nearly $30 trillion of assets while the bottom half...

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In Rebuke to Trumpian Division and Authoritarianism, Bernie Sanders Champions 'Unity' and 'Common Humanity' in Visionary Speech

Jon Queally, staff writer

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to protestors rallying against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill, October 4, 2018 in Washington, DC.

"Our job is to build on our common humanity and do everything that we can to...

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Amazon, led by the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, halted expansion plans in Seattle to make clear its opposition to a proposed local tax to address the city's homelessness crisis.

Last Year, Amazon Paid No Federal Income Taxes. Now, It's Trying to Kill a Local Tax That Aims to Help the Homeless

Watch: Sanders, Warren, Moore Headline National Town Hall on Inequality and Oligarchy

Sanders: Beyond Morally Right, Fighting Global Oligarchy a "Strategic Geopolitical Imperative"

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures on Nov. 15 at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington.

After Money Sheet Photo Goes Viral, Mnuchin Takes It as "Compliment That I Look Like a Villain"

Can You Say Oligarchy? 75% of Americans Think Wealthiest Have "Too Much" Power

Come Together and Fight the Oligarchy, Sanders Tells Young Graduates

As Mega-Donors Average $1,950,000... Average Sanders Donation Still Just $27

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Report: Republican Tax Bill Hands 15 Corporations $236 Billion Tax Break

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Brett Wilkins

Bernie Sanders: 10 Years Fighting Citizens United

Dr. Wanda Wyporska

Don’t Listen to Davos. We, the People, Have the Solutions to Inequality

Jeff Cohen

7 Pointed Questions for Corporate Media About Their Anti-Progressive Biases

Mona Fawaz

What Protests in Lebanon Can Tell Us About Inequality Worldwide

Norman Solomon

It's Corporate Media, 'Moderate' Democrats, and the Oligarchy vs. Bernie Sanders and a Movement

Robert Reich

America’s Next President: Warren Sanders

Chris Hedges

Hope Lies in the Streets

Joshua Cho

For Corporate Media, Voters Are Obstacle to Buttigieg’s Centrist Rise

Christopher D. Cook

Centrists Don’t Want "Party Unity"—They Want to Defend the Wealthy

Astra Taylor

British Voters Are Terrified of US Companies Privatizing the NHS. They Should Be.