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Panama Papers Expose Another Way Our Trade Agreements Fail Us
Prohibiting the ability of plutocrats, corporations, outlaws and the worst of the worst to create anonymous shell corporations to avoid taxes and scrutiny should be at the center of our trade negotiations.
Protect America’s Consumers From Astroturf and #SaveCFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the only federal agency out to protect the financial interests of American consumers. Naturally, big money interests want to shut it down. A new campaign says, “Not without a fight.”
Why The Panama Papers Scandal Is About Cheating School Children
The Panama Papers show how wealthy people avoid paying taxes. But tax avoidance at a much smaller scale is actually quite commonplace right where you live, and the effects are most consequential on the least powerful in our society.
Bernie Sanders Is Right To Slam GE's Immoral Tax Gamesmanship
It is stunning that supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would stand up for General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt in the face of GE's record of tax avoidance.
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Burning Issues: Keep The Terror Threat In Context Paul Pillar, a former U.S. intelligence official cautions, in this installment of the Burning Issues video series, against overreacting to ISIS and against reacting without a long-term plan for addressing the effects...
Burning Issues: Keep The Terror Threat In Context
Paul Pillar, a former U.S. intelligence official and author who now writes at The National Interest, discusses the importance of not overreacting to ISIS and other terror threats in this Burning Issues video segment.
Paul Ryan Is Not The One To Save The GOP From Donald Trump
House Speaker Paul Ryan won’t save the Republican Party from what having Donald Trump as its nominee would do to the party. Beneath his cool, less orange exterior, Ryan isn’t all that different from Trump.
Chamber Works To Defeat, Not Implement, Its Own Members' Preferences
The Chamber of Commerce polled local, state and national business leaders and found they overwhelming support policies like raising the minimum wage. So what did the Chamber do?
Getting Over Our 'Amnesia' About The Value Of An Activist Government
Jacob Hacker's latest book examines the history of shared prosperity through an activist government that conservatives have worked hard to make us forget and that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is working to reclaim.
One-Third Of Wisconsin GOP Voters Won't Vote Trump ... Or Cruz
The Republican Party is ceasing to be a cohesive party. Both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz would lose a significant bloc of Republican voters in November. The GOP schism runs deep and it's about race.
