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Burning Issues: The Money Hidden In Shell Companies
Porter McConnell, the director of the Financial Transparency Coalition, discusses the amount of money hidden in shell companies and how the next president of the United States could address the issue in this Burning Issues video.
Progressive Breakfast
Debate Night Tonight Sanders looks for a game-changing moment. Politico: "...Sanders operatives said they plan to approach the debate, as usual, with minimal prep — but ready to fight. 'It could be very civil, or there could be a lot of conflict,' warned Sanders’...
Fight for $15 Movement Confronts The Presidential Candidates
In New York, before the Democratic candidates get to their debate and the Republican candidates get to a major fundraiser, they have to get past the nationwide demonstrations of the Fight for $15 movement.
Maybe Ivanka Trump Will Help Us Fight Real Voter Suppression
The daughter of Donald Trump complained of New York's "onerous rules" that will keep her from voting in the Republican primary. But New York isn't even on the list of states that have recently added onerous voting restrictions.
Panama Papers Offer More Evidence That Free Trade Isn’t Really Free
As much as President Clinton and President Obama like to talk about "free trade" deals, the truth is that the working class ends up paying.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Lawrence Wilkerson on U.S. Empire-Building The U.S. has “become, in essence, the new Rome,” says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration, in this Burning Issues video...
Burning Issues: Lawrence Wilkerson on U.S. Empire-Building
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff offers a sharp critique of U.S. "imperial power" and offers praise for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in this Burning Issues video.
Wall Street's Fraud of the Week Club
$5.1 billion with Goldman Sachs, $1.2 billion with Wells Fargo – how many settlements will it take to convince some fact-resistant pundits and politicians that there is an epidemic of fraud on Wall Street?
Kasich Pans North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT law, But He’s Still No Moderate.
Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich says he wouldn’t have signed North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT law. That still doesn’t make him the moderate he wants people to think he is.
Taking On Predatory Payday Lenders In Florida
In spite of Florida's problems with payday lenders, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat and chair of the Democratic National Committee, is fighting, not helping, efforts to to rein them in. Here's how she's being exposed.
