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Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting, Dec. 2, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is sleepy. Americans are exhausted

Chauncey DeVega
President Bill Clinton after addressing the nation from the Oval Office, June 10, 1999. (Joyce Naltchayan/AFP via Getty Images)

How corporate Democrats led to Trump

Norman Solomon - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How poverty is fueling Trumpism

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump returns to the White House from Scotland on July 29, 2025. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s cruel policies have a human cost

Chauncey DeVega
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President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump is creating the Second Gilded Age

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

CBO: House bill funnels wealth to top

Blaise Malley
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's "free" money will cost MAGA

Chauncey DeVega
Child pouring water on himself on a hot day (Getty Images/AlesVeluscek)

Climate change damages children's brains

Matthew Rozsa
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Gavel coming down on the US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS decision will leave US in crisis

Rachelle A. Matthews
A general view of the redesigned paddock ahead of the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 03, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

The Derby is tamed — and that's a shame

Brian Karem
Donald Trump; Steve Schwarzman; Jamie Dimon (Getty/Marc Piscotty/Nicolas Asfouri/Kimberly White)

Why most millionaires want a wealth tax

Chauncey DeVega
Protesters hold a banner which states "Make polluters pay" during the demonstration in Parliament Square. Thousands of people marched through Westminster in protest against the destruction of nature, biodiversity loss and climate change on Earth Day. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Rich "super emitters" pollute the worst

Matthew Rozsa
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Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The electric car savings gap

Lylla Younes - Grist
Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Income inequality comes for your health

Stephen Bezruchka
Man throwing dollar bills in a bathtub (Getty Images)

60M workers make less than 237K execs

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Cropped image of a businessman putting money in his pocket (Getty Images)

Execs get $500 for each $1 raise you got

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
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A homeless man sleeps under an American Flag blanket on a park bench. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Capitalism is bad for your health: study

Matthew Rozsa
A man drinks water from the water bottle during a hot weather, as the heat wave conditions prevailed in Northern India with the maximum temperature settling at 38.9 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal, on April 3, 2016 in New Delhi, India. (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The world's poorest bear burden of heat

Lina Tran - Grist
The first day of the Strike WEF march on Davos on 18th of January 2020 near Davos, Switzerland. The first day of the march started in Lanquart with speeches and hot food and ended in Schiers. The protest is planned to finish in Davos with a public meeting in the town on the day the WEF begins. The march is a three day protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. The activists want climate justice and think that The WEF is for the world's richest and political elite only. (Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Ultra-rich: "It's taxes or pitchforks"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
World and money burning (Getty Images/dimdimich)

The 1% are destroying Earth, not you

Matthew Rozsa
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Engraved Wall Street sign, New York, USA (Doug Armand/Getty Images)

Student debt is the 1%'s fault

Jeffrey J. Williams
Former President Donald J Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How tax laws perpetuate the wealth gap

Kelly Candaele - Capital & Main
Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Jamaal Bowman and Katie Porter (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Now Dems want to cut taxes for the rich

Igor Derysh
"The Simpsons" Season 32 episode "Undercover Burns" (FOX)

"The Simpsons'" politics make no sense

Keith A. Spencer
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