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The Kochs’ Anti-Civil Rights Roots: New Documents Expose Charles Koch’s Ties to John Birch Society
New documents show billionaire oil industrialist Charles Koch was an active member of the controversial right-wing John Birch Society during its campaigns against the civil rights movement.
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Ikea Agrees to Pay Its Workers More Than Minimum Wage
Jeannette Wicks-Lim: There's a growing trend among the world's major corporations to voluntarily increase their workers' wages.
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Is This the Dawn of a Renewable Energy Revolution?
Peter Sinclair says that utilities in time will become managers rather than owners of energy, and that the emerging systems are inherently anti-monopolistic.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court Strikes Another Blow to Unions, and More
Our nation's highest court strikes another blow to public unions, and more.
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Joseph Stiglitz: No, Spiraling Inequality Isn’t Inevitable
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz took to the opinion pages of The New York Times to argue that there's no such thing as “natural” market forces.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Renewable Energy Is Spurring Billions of Dollars in Economic Development, and More
In today's On the News segment: Renewable energy isn't only outpacing new fossil fuel capacity, it's also spurring billions of dollars in economic development; the New York Court of …
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World’s Oceans Face “Irreparable Damage”
The Global Ocean Commission gives world leaders a five-year window for intervention before overfishing and climate change negatively impact the world's food supply, clean air and climate stability.
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ISIS Declares Caliphate as US Middle East Policy Continues to Unravel
Glen Ford: After advancing policies that helped birth groups like ISIS, US imperial policy will no longer stand in the region.
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Bill Moyers and Jim Hightower on the Rise of Populism
Bill Moyers and Jim Hightower discuss the champions of grassroots action fighting against the moneyed interests trying to buy and control government.
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Koch-Tied Youth Group Weighs in on Senate Races
Generation Opportunity (Gen Opp) has shifted its focus from the horrors of affordable health care to an old fashioned bashing of “tax and spend” Democrats.