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The court just struck down decades-old limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.

The utility merger seeks to exploit the data center boom for profit and political clout, at ratepayers’ expense.

The United States is a plutocracy. Its economy works for the wealthy and powerful at the expense of working people. It is a broken politico-economic system in need of major repairs, but as leading progressive economist Gerald Epstein points out in the interview that follows, there is indeed an arsenal of bold policies to “defeat [...]

The ad buy costs 48 times more than the T. Rowe Price target fund owned by Lawrence, who leads in a swing-seat House race in Michigan. The post Super PAC Attacks Progressive Will Lawrence Over His $11,000 401(k) appeared first on The American Prospect.

Advocates say the move, a part of the mayor's affordability agenda, will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million annually.

Steven Hill, Democracy SOS. \America’s greatest anti-poverty program has long been the great income leveller in an unequal economy and democracy. And now it faces an existential threat. A financial tsunami of giant proportions is heading our way. It is due to arrive in about six years, and if it strikes with full force it will […]

The legislation is the first major housing bill to pass in decades.

Jeffrey Wernick Buried in the Senate’s version of the defense authorization bill is a provision that changes the relationship between the American state and private industry. Section 1051 would give the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital explicit authority to buy ownership stakes in private companies, and it would create a new account in the Treasury […]