Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has chosen ex-Goldman Sachs bankers to fill several key positions within his administration. According to a Wall Street Journal analysis published Sunday, it appears that the nation’s largest financial institutions are benefiting greatly from having their friends in government. “The Wall Street bankers against whom Trump ran…
As support for single payer continues to surge following the GOP’s failed attempt to strip healthcare from millions, Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress, and other groups launched a week of action on Monday imploring the public and lawmakers to pledge their support for Medicare for All. “Because of your pressure, 43 members of Congress decided…
Public Citizen on Tuesday launched a new project aimed at documenting President Donald Trump’s vast entanglement of business interests and highlighting “the urgent need for the president to disclose his tax returns so Americans can determine the extent of his business holdings and how they may be affecting his policy decisions.” “Trump has created at…
Illustrating the outsize and controversial role it now plays in disseminating news and regulating information across the world, social media giant Facebook is under fire this week after human rights activists and journalists accused it of censoring posts about the ongoing crisis, including charges of “ethnic cleansing,” now taking place in Myanmar. The company’s decision…
Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward promoted an endorsement from a fake news website, Politico reported. Ward at the end of October referenced an Arizona Monitor column on her campaign website and Facebook page that declared she was “your woman” and criticized her Republican competitors, according to the news outlet. “They all, despite how much some…
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Pennsylvania could see a dramatic change in its congressional delegation beginning Tuesday, with at least six of its 18 House districts changing hands. New congressional district lines combined with retirements and political turmoil in the Trump era have Democrats hoping to make sizable gains in a lopsided delegation that now includes five Democrats and 13…
Contrary to the popular demand that the conversation be put front and center, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed on Monday afternoon that the Trump administration simply does not want to talk about gun control in the immediate wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas in which at least 58 people…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia both rushed to praise U.S. President Donald Trump for his widely denounced decision Friday to decertify the Iran nuclear accord, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ripped Trump’s move in a television appearance and accused him of spreading “insults” and “a pile of delusional allegations.” Rouhani also said…
In an analysis (pdf) published Thursday that throws into stark relief the “unjust and unsustainable” nature of what economists have termed the New Gilded Age, the Swiss financial firm UBS found that the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by 17 percent in 2016, bringing their combined fortune to a record $6 trillion—more than double…