Young Turks journalist David Sirota is known for stirring division within the Democratic Party. Throughout 2015 and 2016, he dedicated most of his reporting to attacking Hillary Clinton while showering Bernie Sanders with praise, despite receiving criticism for failing to ...read more
When it comes to who is the most revenge-infatuated person in American politics, Donald Trump wins hands down. From sending annual hand tracings to Graydon Carter, who once dubbed him a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy Magazine, to ridiculing his political opponents with ...read more
Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton's plan to oust assumed incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has always resembled what Bob Cesca calls the "Underpants Gnomes Model." This phrase, which comes from a South Park episode where the boys meet the legendary underpants gnomes, ...read more
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing everything liberals have been begging progressives to do for years. She working with the party. She's staying respectful instead of throwing bombs all day. She's pushing the party to the left without doing her level best to divide it. But ...read more
Early voting has been going on in Florida for more than a week now, and the results so far have been strong. Totals in Orange County and Lake County have favored Democrats and surpassed those set during the last midterm cycle in 2014. One million voters have shown up to vote ...read more
A few weeks ago, Real Time host Bill Maher invited Steve Bannon onto his show, after he was disinvited from the New Yorker Festival. The interview was criticized by the left, just as Bannon's recent appearance in The Economist's festival and his documentary with Errol Morris, ...read more
Rock, meet hard place. President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s Russia investigation and say the president should not ...read more
In one of the most stunning come-from-behind wins in recent political history, Andrew Gillum, the 39-year-old progressive Mayor of Tallahassee, won last night's Democratic primary to succeed Rick Scott as Governor of Florida, becoming the first ever African-American to receive ...read more
Whatever one may have thought of his politics, it is hard to deny John McCain's bravery during his service in Vietnam. The years he spent as a POW in the "Hanoi Hilton," enduring unbearable physical and psychological torture, are a feat of endurance few can imagine going ...read more
Last night, Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin held primaries for the 2018 midterms. The results reflect this year's trend of nominating possibly the most diverse slate of candidates there has ever been, with many of them being women. Today we break down the results ...read more
Sometimes I seriously believe the present-day Democratic Party is filled with the biggest conglomeration of pessimists and quitters in the history of American politics. Today, as many of us feared, another shoe dropped in the ongoing crisis of the Donald Trump presidency: Justice ...read more
Within a year, Democrats will declare their candidacies for President and there will be numerous debates about whether or not America is ready for another woman, (Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand), another African-American (Cory Booker), or both (Kamala Harris). Any four of ...read more
A new analysis explains the impact of something we already knew: As the Democratic Party grew more diverse, white voters left and started voting Republican. And they left because of pure racism. Whites have slowly but consistently moved away from the Democratic Party. These ...read more
