How far would Jeff Bezos’ $150 billion fortune go if it were used for the common good? Pretty far, as it turns out.
Political and media elites from both major parties may now consider Trump a threat, but their reasons and potential fixes are in line with their own interests.
Published in 1958, the text offers a blueprint of sorts for industrialists and corporations to punish the poor.
"Trump has turbocharged the kleptocracy, but it was there before he came in," Hedges reminds his audience at a book event in Washington, D.C.
In one of the most prosperous societies ever to exist on earth, nearly half the population struggles to make ends meet.
The Vermont senator says he'll be asking the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to investigate Amazon's workplace conditions.
While news outlets are eager to report on the recent primary losses of the insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party, there also have been plenty of wins.
The mainstream media should be taken to task, but not for the same reasons the president uses in his attacks on the press.
Only by abandoning our two-party duopoly can we begin to imagine an alternative future.
The Accountable Capitalism Act aims to give workers a "stronger voice" in the decision-making of major businesses.
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