Democrats recently ousted David Hogg from leadership after he criticized the party for complacency. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. New polling finds that most Democratic voters want the current leaders of the Democratic Party to be replaced, as current leadership has failed to...
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending, and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich. New polling data indicates that a majority of Americans are opposed to Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, oftentimes referred to by President Donald Trump as the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” with only a quarter of voters viewing...
Trump’s sweeping budget legislation has been described as the biggest Medicaid cut in U.S. history. House Republicans passed the bill early Thursday morning in a 215-214 vote. The legislation would trigger massive cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years, denying coverage to an estimated 7.6 million Americans, according to the Congressional Budget...
The announcement comes as Trump is fighting to suppress the news media on numerous fronts. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that his administration is implementing a 100 percent tariff on all films produced in foreign countries, denouncing them as “propaganda” as he aims to wrest further control over information and the media in the...
A new Oxfam analysis also warns that the global working class faces a new threat in the form of Trump’s tariff regime. As people worldwide filled the streets Thursday to celebrate International Workers’ Day and mobilize against attacks on the working class, a new analysis showed that average global CEO pay has surged 50% since 2019...
Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Getty Images More than half of the growth of solar in 2024 was in China. More than 40 percent of the world’s electricity was generated without burning fossil fuels in 2024, according to a new report from think-tank Ember. But carbon dioxide emissions, which warm the planet, have risen to...
Alarm over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs continues to grow, with stocks plummeting and JPMorgan warning that “the risk of recession in the global economy this year is raised to 60%, up from 40%.” After China announced new 34% tariffs on all American goods beginning next week, The Associated Press reported Friday that “the S&P...
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he is planning to impose a 200 percent tariff on European countries’ alcoholic products sold to the U.S., responding to a much smaller tariff imposed by the European Union (EU) that was itself was in response to tariffs by Trump earlier this month. The EU announced on...