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What Do Conservatives Fear Most? There has been a reemergence of a deeply rooted conservative fear—something close to an ideology—that givi...

Sanders Launches 'Our Revolution,' Dedicated to a Progressive Agenda and Better Democratic Party Reminds supporters of all they acc...

Why Walmart Matters to 21st Century Working-Class Struggle What connects the recent movements that have shaken the foundations of US inequa...

Real Washington Corruption? Not Hillary's Latest Emails, but Bush-Cheney Ties to Iraq's Wartime Profiteers Right-wingers upset with...

Paul Krugman: The Water Next Time A disaster area is no place for political theater. The governor of flood-ravaged Louisiana asked Preside...

Humans have caused climate change for 180 years Australian National University An international research project has found human activity...

U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds By Scot J. Paltrow The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled ...

Paul Krugman: Obamacare Hits a Bump More than two and a half years have gone by since the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, went ful...

How ‘Think Tanks’ Generate Endless War U.S. “think tanks” rile up the American public against an ever-shifting roster of foreign “enemies” ...

Richard Eskow: Will The “Fix the Debt” Manipulators Ever Reform Themselves? I’ll say this for them: The Wall Street billionaires and corpo...

How Trump and Christie Colluded to Steal $25 Million From NJ Taxpayers An outraged Sarah Silverman says the money should go for education. ...

Police Can Use a Legal Gray Area to Rob Anyone of Their Belongings When officers categorize wallets or cellphones as evidence, getting them...

Everything Wrong With How Our Justice System Treats Poor People, In One Awful Case Ian Millhiser Maria Rivera’s young son spent over a ye...

Paul Krugman: Wisdom, Courage and the Economy It’s fantasy football time in political punditry, as commentators try to dismiss Hillary Cl...

David Sirota: Jobs Report: Donald Trump Joins Economic Experts Who Say The Official Unemployment Rate Is Inaccurate When Donald Trump on M...

Social Security and the 1 Percent by Nick Buffie In February of last year, the Center for American Progress (CAP) released a report title...

Federal Court Delivers a Blow to Municipal Broadband Candace Clement The digital divide is alive and well in 2016 and there are still mil...

Donald Trump Gives the Game Away GOP leaders will tolerate Trump so long as he promises huge tax cuts, and GOP voters will tolerate him so ...

Richard Eskow: The Incredible Shrinking Populist: Donald Trump’s Tiny Economic Vision On Monday, Donald Trump talked about the economy on...

Anti-Transparency Agenda Hailed Inside ALEC Submitted by PRWatch Editors --A Special Report from Rep. Chris Taylor I walked into my six...

The Right Wants Glass-Steagall for the Wrong Reasons By Mike Konczal It’s impossible to look at any single financial regulation without u...

Dirty War Files Show How Clinton Ally Kissinger Backed Regime of Terror Files released as Hillary Clinton reportedly courts Kissinger's...

Trump Trade Position Is Opposite Of What People Think It Is Dave Johnson One of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s stronger...

New Evidence Suggests Big Oil Didn’t Borrow Big Tobacco’s Playbook to Lie to the Public About Climate Change—They Actually Wrote It In a ma...

Lynn Parramore: Stark New Evidence on How Money Shapes America’s Elections Oversights of two generations of social scientists have weakene...

Joseph E. Stiglitz: Globalization and its New Discontents NEW YORK – Fifteen years ago, I wrote a little book, entitled Globalization and ...

Paul Krugman: Time to Borrow The campaign still has three ugly months to go, but the odds — 83 percent odds, according to the New York Ti...

Matt Taibbi: Thomas Friedman Goes to the Wall High priest of globalization lashes out against the enemies of progress Thomas Friedman, m...

Dean Baker: NYT Does Impassioned Pitch for TPP in Its News Section The NYT gave an analysis of changing attitudes towards trade agreement...

Worst recovery in postwar era largely explained by cuts in government spending by Robert E. Scott In a story in the Wall Street Journal l...

Jeremy Corbyn Launches Bold Progressive Vision to Transform UK 'Our country wasn’t run by Brussels, it’s run by boardrooms across the w...

The Federal Minimum Wage Has Been Eroded By Decades of Inaction Economic Policy Institute July 25, 2016--This week marks the seven-year a...

The Birds on Trump’s Brain Richard Eskow Donald Trump’s brain. It’s an unusual instrument, and a frightening one, even in the best of cir...

Medicaid Works: 10 Key Facts Edwin Park Medicaid provides health coverage to low-income families and individuals, including children, par...

How One GMO Nearly Took Down the Planet New law deals major blow to GMO labeling. By Thom Hartmann On July 29, President Obama signed bi...

Paul Krugman: No Right Turn All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look a...

For the Wealthy, a Taxing New Worry Sam Pizzigati Tax law professors don’t normally have much of a public profile. Victor Fleischer does....

More Coca-Cola Ties Seen Inside U.S. Centers For Disease Control by Carey Gillam In June, Dr. Barbara Bowman, a high-ranking official wit...

The college debt crisis is even worse than you think We tell students they need a bachelor’s degree to get ahead. But for too many, the num...

Embodied by Sanders and Corbyn, Resistance to Neoliberalism Won't Melt Away Neither movement is just about one man. They’re a reflectio...

How ‘Competitiveness’ Became One of the Great Unquestioned Virtues of Contemporary Culture How did mounting inequality succeed in proving ...

A Georgia town is sending police to black residents’ homes to challenge their voting rights Brad Reed Jim Crow laws have been off the boo...

Dean Baker: Don't believe Wall Street's scare stories about a financial transactions tax Thanks in large part to Sen. Bernie Sande...

Paul Krugman: Worthy of Our Contempt Donald Trump said some more disgusting things over the weekend. If this surprises you, you haven’t b...

The Fallacy of ‘Regime Change’ Strategies “Regime change” or destabilizing sanctions are Official Washington’s policy options of choice in ...

One Democratic Convention Speech Nailed The Progressive Vision Isaiah J. Poole When Rev. William Barber, best known in progressive circle...

'Disappointed' in Obama, Sanders Calls on Top Dems to Drop Lame Duck TPP Push TPP "will cost American jobs, harm the environme...

Paul Krugman: Who Loves America? It has been quite a week in politics. On one side, the Democratic National Convention was very much a ...

Greenwald Explains What Out-of-Touch Media Doesn't Get About Trump, Russia, and US Electorate 'People have been so fucked by the pr...

FLASHBACK: When Millions of Lost Bush White House Emails (From Private Accounts) Triggered a Media Shrug Millions of missing White House em...

Koch's Latest Propaganda Disaster: Another Academic Sell-Out Sets Off Controversy With Remarks Charles Koch's incestuous academic n...

Corporate Democrats Have Always Hated the Left — Now They're Shocked to Learn That We Hate Them Back by Jake Johnson Since the 1970...

ALEC 2016 Agenda Boosts Charters, Coal and Other Corporate Funders By Jessica Mason and Lisa Graves, PR Watch | News Analysis The America...

Want to Stop Gentrification? Start a Union. Like labor unions, neighborhood unions could help residents bargain collectively for affordable...

Turbo-Capitalism Will Wreck Us, Unless Hillary Moves Faster Breaking the glass ceiling won't fix the walls and foundation. By Jim Slee...

How climate change is rapidly taking the planet apart Writing up articles on climate change is difficult these days. Last week alone, 46 n...

We Must Reject Economic Cannibalism By John Perkins "What can I do to fix a broken global economy?" It's a question I'v...

Chomsky: America Is on the Decline: Guess Who's to Blame? Noam Chomsky wants to make America great again, but you’ll never believe who ...

Paul Krugman: Delusions of Chaos Last year there were 352 murders in New York City. This was a bit higher than the number in 2014, but fa...

The far-right’s 50-year project to transform American values with a clandestine ‘counterrevolution’ History News Network The current U.S....

Oil Lobby Paid Washington Post and Atlantic to Host Climate-Change Deniers at RNC Alex Emmons At the award-winning seafood restaurant in ...

How Individualist Economics Are Causing Planetary Eco-Collapse By Richard Smith While capitalism has brought unprecedented development, t...

Elizabeth Warren Opens Broad Attack Against Rent-Seeking Oligopolists Like Amazon, Apple, Google, Walmart, Comcast Posted on July 1, 2016 b...

How Billionaires Are Successfully Fooling Us Into Destroying Public Education—and Why Privatization Is a Terrible Idea The billionaire-back...

The Republicans' Platform Eviscerates Workers’ Rights A government for the people? name The Republican Party's official 2016 pla...

What’s Taking Little Rock Back To Its Segregated Past? Jeff Bryant Stories about historic efforts to address racial segregation in Americ...

Regulating Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Could Improve the Health of the Next Generation By Christina Rudén and Laura Vandenberg, Environm...

John Dewey Was Right: American Politics Is Merely the Shadow Cast by Big Business by Jake Johnson Writing in the midst of the Great Depre...

Paul Krugman: Money: The Brave New Uncertainty of Mervyn King The Bank of England, founded in 1694, isn’t the oldest central bank in the ...

Dean Baker: Paul Ryan's Calls for Eliminating Almost the Entire Federal Government No, that is not some new concession that the Speak...

Proposed Bill Would Prevent Your Employer From Accessing Your Birth Control Schedule Employers are using third-party companies to mine data...

Why Google DeepMind wants your medical records Google's DeepMind has moved on from playing Go to more serious matters - attempting to s...

Paul Krugman: The GOP’s Original Sin Norm Ornstein has a piece in Vox laying out, once again, his (and Mann’s) thesis that the GOP went o...

Here's Why Viking Economics Are Superior The Nordic model assumes a rested worker is a productive worker. By George Lakey A few year...

Five Conspirators in the Eradication of the Middle Class PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Their unspoken goal is a two-class natio...

Paul Krugman: Bull Market Blues Like most economists, I don’t usually have much to say about stocks. Stocks are even more susceptible tha...

What Really Happened in Syria Exclusive: The U.S. government blames the Syrian civil war almost entirely on Bashar al-Assad – and some prog...

Citigroup Has More Derivatives than 4,701 U.S. Banks Combined; After Blowing Itself Up With Derivatives in 2008 By Pam Martens and Russ Mar...

Richard Eskow: Eric Holder’s Justice Eric Holder certainly has changed since his days at Columbia University. According to the New York Ti...

Lynn Parramore: How MBA Programs Drive Inequality Business school students are taught to extract resources instead of creating value. Ove...

The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn. by Ronan...

Leaked Document Reveals Alarming New Environmental Threats of TTIP By Sierra Club This morning, as the most recent round of trade negotia...

Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn Keep Confounding the Elite Sanders and Corbyn have rekindled the mass desire for a functioning democracy. By Pau...

Paul Krugman: Cheap Money Talks What with everything else going on, from Trump to Brexit to the horror in Dallas, it’s hard to focus on d...

Paul Krugman: All the Nominee’s Enablers A couple of weeks ago Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, sort of laid out both a health care p...

Paul Krugman: Trump, Trade and Workers Donald Trump gave a speech on economic policy last week. Just about every factual assertion he made...

Truth is in danger as new techniques used to stop journalists covering the news SAGE London, UK (July 11, 2016). The truth is being suppr...

Why Clinton and Trump backers don't mix Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Living around people with opposing political...

Anti-TPP Amendment Fails at Heated Dem Platform Meeting by Nika Knight, staff writer When Democratic Party platform committee members arr...

Vanishing Act: Why Insects Are Declining and Why It Matters nsect populations are declining dramatically in many parts of the world, recent...

Atoning for Washington’s ‘Mass Kidnapping’ in the Indian Ocean The U.S. and UK governments forcibly expelled an entire population of island...

Busted Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows t...

We Don't Need Trump or Brexit to Reject the Credo of Neoliberal Market Inevitability By Michael Meurer, Truthout | Op-Ed In the wake ...

Let’s be honest, Bernie and Hillary don’t represent the same class. Devin Reynolds We traditionally think of the Republican/Democrat divi...