Lindsay Koshgarian - US News and World Report
All of this talk – and money – points in one direction. There's a likely ending to all this military bluster and buildup, and it's one that goes boom.
Branko Marcetic - Jacobin
Researchers have discovered trillions of dollars in unexplained military spending. We might never find out where it went.
Lindsay Koshgarian - Fortune
The Trump administration moved recently to allow states to require “proof of work” for Medicaid recipients. The idea is punitive and counter-productive—not to mention hypocritical.
Rising Up With Sonali - Rising Up With Sonali
The work requirements fulfill a long-term Republican ideal of making poor Americans jump through many hoops, suffer undignified scrutiny, and be forced to work in a stagnant economy in order to be part of a tax-payer funded social safety net.
Lindsay Koshgarian - Truthout
The passage of the most sweeping and disastrous tax plan in a generation is not just a defeat, it is a call to action for 2018.
Lindsay Koshgarian - Truthout
While the Senate and House versions of the highly unpopular GOP tax bill are being reconciled, it's important to remember that the two have one thing in common: adding significantly to the national debt. This may seem counterintuitive for fiscal conservatives, but it's the perfect cover for the GOP's real ...
Kai Ryssdal - NPR's Marketplace
We get down to the differences between the Senate and House versions of the tax bill, and debt created is one of those differences. Also included is the number of tax brackets, the alternative minimum tax and the amount of the child tax credit. Plus, Marketplace’s Dan Gorenstein is in ...
Sarah Anderson - The Nation
Inspired by an initiative cut short by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., moral leaders are planning a wave of civil disobedience.
Lindsay Koshgarian - Common Dreams
Basic facts remain murky for a public trying to understand what this tax plan means: how much can $1 billion buy?
Lindsay Koshgarian - Truthout
The tax plan now under consideration by Congress is remarkable for its consistency: a raft of provisions that disproportionately benefit corporations and wealthy Americans and do little for poor, working- and middle-class people.