Economy

Thanks to a loophole that subsidizes CEO pay, McDonald's, Yum Brands, Wendy's, Burger King, Domino's, and Dunkin' Brands trimmed $64 million from their tax bills in 2011 and 2012.

The death of a great American city is one of the biggest - if not the biggest - news story of the week. But the mainstream media has yet …

The banksters could be forced to pay tens of billions of dollars more in settlements for crashing our economy, and more.

The planet itself, to say nothing of the overwhelming majority of human beings, can no longer live with the killer that is global corporate capitalism in our midst.

Today, more than 29 cities across the U.S. are joining a Global Day of Action against toxic trade agreements.

Which is to say, a basket case. Along with Citigroup, and Bank of America.

Just after midnight on December 3, 1984, a 40 ton cloud of poisonous gas enveloped the provincial capital of Bhopal in India.

Organizations that received u201csubstantialu201d funding from Google for the first time over the past year include Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union …

Garson explains the whole securitized, derivatized implosion of the economy in a way thatu2019s easy to follow and puts the blame where it belongs.

In plain yet powerful language, Pope Francis is challenging the givens of our deeply unequal world - and helping inspire resistance to it.