A Koch brothers-backed economist makes a $3 trillion error, but still finds that “Medicare for All” reduces costs and boosts wages. They conclude that it will actually save trillions of dollars! Nice. … Continue reading Koch-Backed Think Tank Finds That “Medicare for All” Would Cut Health Care Spending and Raise Wages. Whoops.

Hackers find the foundation of democracy is on shaky ground thanks to shoddy technology. Time to move away from electronic voting machines that don’t offer a paper trail and operate on proprietary … Continue reading Hackers Break Into Voting Machines Within 2 Hours at Defcon

It’s only July, but it has already been a long, hot spring and summer. The contiguous U.S. endured the warmest May ever recorded, and in June, the average temperature was 1.7 degrees … Continue reading What Climate Change Looks Like In 2018

The tax cuts were supposed to allow corporations to raise wages. Instead they used the money to buy back their own stock (helping the rich stockholders) and wages have gone down. Source: … Continue reading Trump’s Tax Cut Hasn’t Done Anything for Workers

The GOP-controlled state government recently passed a law that critics say amounts to placing a “poll tax” on college students. The idea is to make students have to register as permanent residents … Continue reading New Hampshire makes it tougher for students to vote. Democrats call it ‘devious’ suppression.

Medieval peasants lived grueling, terrible lives. But their vacation days beat out the policies now common even in progressive societies. That’s progress for ya! Source: Average American worker takes less vacation than … Continue reading Average American worker takes less vacation than a medieval peasant

This is not good. If young people want to have any say in shaping their world they need to become more involved. Perhaps the establishment needs to provide more candidates that young … Continue reading Poll: only 28 percent of young voters say they will certainly vote in the 2018 midterms

The Farm Bill will have profound consequences for the country, especially poor people and rural areas. Negotiations over it have completely stalled. Only part of the Farm Bill concerns American farmers. The … Continue reading Inside the Most Important Battle in Congress You Aren’t Paying Attention To

Some nonprofit groups will no longer have to give the IRS the names of donors who give them $5,000 or more. Interesting ruling considering that some foreign money might be flowing into … Continue reading NRA and some other nonprofits will no longer need to identify their donors to the IRS

Americans, particularly young Americans, are starting to question the assumptions that underlie some policymakers’ categorical opposition to federal government borrowing. For those hawks who make politically motivated forecasts of doom for the US’s fiscal health, it may be their own credibility that ends up paying a price. Because the threat of doom … Continue reading Fiscal hawks’ tales of doom do not fly with the young

Facebook’s advertising tools algorithmically labelled 65,000 Russians as interested in treason, potentially putting them at risk from the repressive state, until the company removed the category, following inquiries from journalists. Just another … Continue reading Facebook labels Russian users as ‘interested in treason’ putting them at risk from the government

The little-known history of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory hints at the coming transformation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot Interesting read with more candidates to follow. Source: America’s new revolutionaries show how the left … Continue reading America’s new revolutionaries