Blogging Our Great Divide

A new campaign is rising up to “Trump-proof Seattle” with innovative city-level solutions to the deep problems created by the administration’s proposed budget cuts.

The Trump pick now running the Securities and Exchange Commission invited America to dump on government regulation. America declined.

While billionaires get richer, most Americans lack the cash reserves to get through hard times. Are you or a loved one having trouble staying afloat? You’re truly not alone. While...

Despite constant bashing in the media and from the White House, undocumented immigrants actually pay more towards the public good than the wealthy.

New Wall Street bonus numbers reveal how these payouts have far outpaced the rise in the federal minimum wage — and how this in turn has contributed to race and...

If you don’t pay me $300 million, the new CEO at CSX is threatening, I’ll let your workers keep their jobs.

A leaked document shows Trump’s own tax proposals would’ve drastically reduced his 2005 IRS payment.   Rachel Maddow has broken a blockbuster story with an exclusive interview with David Cay...

A new book offers serious solutions to the deep divide in access to affordable early child care and education. The patchwork of programs currently in place to help parents balance...

Grand proclamations about slashing taxes and spending run afoul of basic arithmetic as well as basic fairness. The political theater that passes for serious policy debate is about to run...

A growing number of executives at America’s ‘do-good’ nonprofits are doing much too good — for themselves — at paycheck time.