Wall Street greed refuses to die: How lobbyists & dark-money groups are...
A recent paper from a rightwing advocacy group makes clear just how desperate the 1 percent is to get its way
View ArticleThe corporate religion of Carly Fiorina: Inside the hyper-capitalist...
Fiorina's brand of big-business orthodoxy only perceives reality through the prism of narrow self-interest
View ArticleCongress gone wild! While Trump grabs headlines, the House has been hard at...
Congressional Republicans are drafting their own radical agenda for the future of America
View ArticleHouse Republicans pass major banking deregulations that would undo Dodd-Frank...
Even though banks brought in record profits last year, the House of Representatives passed deregulatory legislation
View ArticleSecrecy and Suspicion Surround Trump’s Deregulation Teams
ProPublica and The New York Times identify more possible conflicts of interest among Trump appointees
View ArticleHouse Democrats push for tougher oversight of regulators’ conflicts of interest
A bill was introduced following reports that disclosed the industry ties of Trump officials
View ArticleTrump is giving oil and gas lobbyists exactly what they want
"Pruitt and his team have no shame"
View ArticleCalifornia resists: State attorney general spent 2017 relentlessly suing Trump
Xavier Becerra was empowered to go after Trump on regulatory rollback — and sued the feds 24 times in 2017
View ArticleDoes regulation kill off business profits, as Trump claims? Not at all
Republicans want us to believe Dodd-Frank financial regulations slow economic growth, but the opposite may be true
View ArticleTrump’s first State of the Union: A list of promises made — and broken
Trump's big speech mentioned numerous campaign promises: He's either broken them or is flat-out lying about them
View ArticleIs Barney Frank really a reliable source on rolling back Dodd-Frank bank...
Former Massachusetts congressman is a liberal icon whose name is on the bill. He's also a well-paid bank director
View ArticleScott Pruitt is burying his radical pro-polluter agenda under oceans of...
How a dense, legalistic notice about rethinking cost-benefit analysis could derail environmental protection
View ArticleTrump’s Supreme Court pick could spell a fresh hell for workers’ rights
Brett Kavanaugh has shown a disturbing trend of siding with employers on a range of issues
View ArticleRobert Reich: The dangerous myth of deregulation
Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics
View ArticleRobert Reich: The three big lessons we didn’t learn from the economic crisis
America should have learned three big lessons from the crisis. We didn’t, to our continuing peril.
View ArticleDespite thorough debunking, neoliberal housing politics prevail in the Bay Area
Why do so many California politicians count themselves as adherents of YIMBY, a pure form of neoliberal sophistry?
View ArticlePruitt sued the EPA 14 times; now he runs it
The Frontline documentary "War on the EPA" dives into Pruitt's history and the effects of deregulating a key agency
View ArticleWall Street is bearish on Trump (again)
Trump and his Wall Street coevals are like a bad Taylor Swift romance — and they called it off again last night
View ArticleSenate Democrats torn asunder on banking bill, ignoring progressive base
So much for a unified Democratic economic message, as red-state moderates rush to give banks everything they want
View ArticleMick Mulvaney's mission: Sacrifice public protections on the altar of...
The Trump administration has halted crucial public protections
View ArticleSorry Dems: Trump isn't all that weird and socialism isn't coming
The Republican Party is not in crisis either
View ArticleFDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, a rare "moderate" Trump appointee, to resign
Compared to most Trump appointees, Gottlieb — whose signature issue was teen vaping — seemed somewhat sane
View ArticleNew focus on Joe Biden's 1993 "predators on our streets" speech as he eyes...
A speech Joe Biden gave on crime 25 years ago, denouncing "predators on our streets," sparks new controversy
View ArticleTrump administration losing 94 percent of lawsuits over illegal policy changes
Federal agencies under Trump are losing suits at a record rate, largely because of massive incompetence
View ArticleBig Telecom companies are suppressing fast internet
The telecom industry doesn't want your internet to be good. Deregulation is making it worse. Here's why
View ArticleTrump wants you to pay more for light bulbs and power — but at least you'll...
Trump rolled back a regulation that would make light bulbs cheaper and last longer. For liberal tears, basically
View ArticleFinally, a Democrat who calls "bulls**t": Martin O'Malley drops a profane...
Martin O'Malley used a naughty word to describe Marco Rubio's economic vision. Let's see more of this, please
View ArticleIs being a billionaire a disqualifier for office?
A key question as the corporate media force-feeds us the premise of a Bloomberg vs. Trump face-off in 2020
View ArticleDeregulation's deadly consequences: How Trump's assault on government...
A new report details how Trump's far-reaching deregulatory push has exacerbated the spread of COVID-19
View ArticleWhy Texas froze (and California fried): This disaster was 90 years in the making
It took decades of misguided policy — and the climate crisis — to create last week's Lone Star catastrophe
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