Reading Time: < 1 minute Mitch McConnell pushed to give corporations First Amendment rights, freeing them to spend unlimited cash on campaign ads. His problem? Some now oppose his campaign agenda.
Reading Time: < 1 minute CEOs gave Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) PAC a whopping $475 million last year. Do they have buyer’s remorse now that he’s warning them not to “become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack” the country?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Simon & Schuster promises a “revelatory” memoir by the former VP.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Elon Musk’s net worth soared by $140 billion in 2020. Jeff Bezos added $75 billion and Bill Gates a mere $20 billion. By one calculation, the country’s billionaires pocketed $1.1 trillion! Think they can afford to start paying their fair share of taxes?
Reading Time: 5 minutes What can Joe Biden do for American workers now that Amazon workers have voted on whether to unionize in Alabama? The moment for labor in America is the most portentous in a century.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Due to Putin’s aggression, some ethnic Russians and Russophones in neighboring countries are shedding their cultural and political affinity with Russia.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) wrote a book boasting about his lessons for America dealing with COVID-19, but New York politics is in an uproar with ever-growing investigations into his conduct.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Republicans like Lindsey Graham are all for bipartisan government now that they’re no longer in power.
Reading Time: 14 minutes Author and investigative journalist Craig Unger thinks he has found the unified field theory behind the Trump-Russia connection — and why Trump is still a security risk.
Reading Time: 5 minutes GameStop reminded us that Wall Street is itself a game. Some states and cities are looking for banking models that aren’t so… Wild West, and more socially responsible.