It's only the second week of the new year, but many corporate CEOs have already made more money than most of us will make for the rest of the year.

Despite those exorbitant salaries, many of those same CEOs are fighting hard to keep their taxes low and keep our fellow Americans from making a living wage.

Earlier today, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and Flint Mayor Karen Weaver met in Lansing to discuss how the city and the state will manage the on-going lead contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan.

On Tuesday, Snyder declared a state of emergency for Genesee County, the county surrounding Flint.

The armed right-wing militia members who are occupying the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge out in Oregon say they believe in and want to defend the Constitution.

If you don't live on the West Coast of the United States, you might not have heard about the massive natural gas well leak that's been venting natural gas into the atmosphere at a rate of more than 100,000 pounds per hour for over two months.

If Donald Trump fails in his quest to become the 45th President of the United States, he’ll always have a career in terrorist propaganda.

For months now, security experts have been warning us that Trump’s call for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States was going to become a recruitment goldmine for terrorist groups.

Well, those security experts were right.

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If you've shopped at a gardening supply store in the last year, and if you happen to live with someone who drinks tea, guess what?

Your local sheriff could just send a SWAT team into your house.

It's not a far-fetched scenario, in fact it actually happened, here in America, just 3 short years ago.

America is in the midst of a full-blown public health crisis.

Around 282 people every day - over 32,000 people every year - are dying from a totally preventable cause.

This totally preventable cause, by the way, just isn’t a problem in most other developed nations.

It's the holidays, and whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or anything else, there's one thing that we all have in common.

Corporate America wants us all to buy stuff, lots of stuff.

If you’ve watched any the Republican debates this election cycle, you’ve probably heard one of the candidates say something about how we need a big strong leader in the White House.

This idea, that America needs a strongman type leader, is very popular right now among conservatives.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, a family of four needs an income of at least $60,000 dollars a year to reach a “adequate but modest living standard.” But, fifty percent of all Americans make less than half that amount.

Paul Buchheit over at Alternet reports that new Social Security Administration data shows that one out of every two Americans is living in – or damn near close – to flat out poverty.

"Fear," a great Jedi master named Yoda once said, “leads to anger,” which leads to hate, which leads to suffering, which, of course, leads to the Dark Side.

And while Yoda’s warning was directed at the long ago problems of a galaxy, far, far away, we’d do well to take it in stride right now in America in 2015.

If you feel like you haven't seen much, or any news, about Bernie Sanders and the democratic primary race, it's not just in your head.

Over the weekend, the Tyndall Report revealed that mainstream nightly news shows, through the entirety of this year of 2015, have spent only 10 minutes of total coverage on Bernie Sanders, as opposed to 234 minutes of total coverage of Donald Trump.

For almost a decade and a half, the people behind the Bush administration's shameful treatment of terrorism suspects have avoided punishment for their crimes.

But that may be about to change.

The courts have had their say and have ruled that former Bush administration officials can, in fact, be sued for how they conducted the War on Terror.