CHART: Treasury Loses Billions Of Dollars Due To Tax Deductions For Executive...
According to a new report by Temple University accounting professor Steven Balsam, the federal government lost $30.4 billion between 2007 and 2010 thanks to corporations taking tax deductions for...
View ArticleBush Tax Cuts Saved 57 CEOs More Than $1 Million Each Last Year
The Bush tax cuts, again, are set to expire at the end of the year, and President Obama has promised to veto any extension of the cuts on income in excess of $250,000. Of course, Republicans are...
View ArticleRewatching ‘The Wire’: Code-Switching
This post contains spoilers through episode 9 of the second season of The Wire. The Wire tends to explore worlds that operate by separate sets of rules and principals, and the show focuses on the...
View ArticleBill Moyers: How America Forgot Its Poor
This piece originally appeared on BillMoyers.com . It’s just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what’s happening to poor people.
View ArticleMatt Taibbi Reveals How Romney Made His Fortune — It Ain’t Pretty, and He...
Editor's note: The following is a transcript of a Democracy Now! interview with Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi, whose recent article in the magazine gets to the bottom of Mitt Romney's...
View ArticleHow the Gun Industry Made a Fortune Stoking Fears That Obama Would Take...
A freckled boy with tousled hair looks into the camera and says, “I am NRA Country.” A black guy with dreadlocks echoes him, as do two pretty young women suppressing giggles, saying in unison, “We are...
View ArticleThe Secret of Why Wealthy Americans Aren’t Always the Most Charitable
Do you ever pass a homeless person on your way to work? Is there a soup kitchen in your town
View ArticleWhat Ralph Nader Is Thinking About the 2012 Election
In 2008, when a first-term Senator from Illinois with a gold tongue and an exotic back story inspired millions of citizens--young and old, black and white, rich and poor, progressive and moderate—to...
View ArticleStep Aside Mommy Porn, Amish Women in Bonnets Make for Instant Best-Sellers
This story was originally published at Salon . With mommy porn bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey whipping up a sadomasochistic storm in the female book market this summer, it might seem safe to assume...
View ArticleFor Labour Day, Thank A Labour Organiser
I’m working this Labour Day, as are many others, including my fellow freelancers (making up 30% of the workforce, baby!), but a lot of you, including our lovely Alyssa, have the day off.
View Article4 Ways Romney & Ryan Would Roll Back the 20th Century
Sharon Day, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, asserted at the opening of her party’s national conference last week: “[This] is the most important election in our nation's lifetime." Well,...
View ArticleNarcocorridos: Mexico’s Deadly Drug Wars Have Produced an Amazing and...
It’s 2 a.m. when El Komander, the bestselling balladeer of cartel life and death, takes the stage at Club El Rodeo in Mexicali, Mexico, a maquiladora boomtown just across the border from sleepy...
View ArticleTeam Obama Labels Romney’s Mockery Of Climate Action ‘Terrifying’
For those who care about the health and well-being of our children, the low-point of the Republican convention was surely this line by Romney — and the response it got from the audience: President...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Disgusting New Southern Strategy: Take the Vote Away from Blacks,...
This article first appeared in TheRoot.com .
View ArticleWhy Obama Has a Tricky Tightrope Act to Pull Off in His Big Speech
As the Democratic Party convenes in Charlotte, President Obama faces a complex challenge: how to craft an effective campaign message given a weak economy, his own record and his half-hidden...
View Article18 Vets Kill Themselves a Day: We Hail Them As Heroes Then Treat Them Like...
The following is a transcript of an interview on Democracy Now ! The month of July set a record high for the number of suicides in the U.S.
View ArticleHow Can We Be "Withdrawing" from Afghanistan If the US Has 550 Bases There?
This article originally appeared on Tom Dispatch. Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten “stimulus packages” of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with...
View ArticleContrary To Right-Wing Media Claims, Report Confirms Anti-Islam Video Was...
Media outlets have continued to suggest that the Obama administration lied when it said that an anti-Islam video served as a catalyst for the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. In fact,...
View ArticleRecent Warming Is Still Unprecedented In Speed, Scale And Cause: A Marcott Et...
Earlier this month, we reported on a new study by Marcott et al. in Science : Recent Warming Is ‘Amazing And Atypical’ And Poised To Destroy Stable Climate That Enabled Civilization .
View ArticleFox Ignores Evidence That Plan B Does Not Increase Sexual Activity
Fox News pushed the myth that increased access to emergency contraceptives encourages sex among teenagers. In fact, research shows access to these drugs does not increase teens' sexual activity. FDA...
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