While most Americans predominantly live off the income they earn from a job—income that is taxed all year, every year—the very richest households live lavishly off capital gains that may never be taxed.
Newly released data from the Census Bureau points at big shifts in state representation in the House after the 2030 census.
Democratic Congressmembers Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee have introduced a resolution called the Third Reconstruction, to end poverty in the United States by addressing systemic racism, economic and public health inequity, militarism, other issues.
For decades, union-busting bosses and Republican politicians have had a powerful ally in their war on organized labor: the United States Supreme Court.
Lawmakers have tried to introduce legislation seeking to advance antitrust reform. Google, Amazon, and Meta have spent millions fighting it.
Nearly two centuries after a treaty was approved, the Cherokee Nation wants the U.S. government to abide by its commitments.
There is no consensus for Court reform and there are not the votes for it in Congress. But circumstances do change, often unexpectedly. Should progressives gain the opportunity to make structural changes to the Supreme Court, they should take it.
The House passed a bill that sounds good, but doesn’t end Washington's failed, militarized approach or get to root problems.
What, then, has been the actual influence of the military veterans now in Congress on this country's war policy?
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