Photo: Jeff Mitchell/Getty ImagesBernie Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary because black women - the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc - voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton during the early Southern primaries, giving her a delegate lead he could never ...read more
In the 2016 campaign, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was criticized for...well, everything, but in particular for her remarks that half of Donald Trump's voters could be thrown into the "basket of deplorables" for their racism and misogyny. She wasn't wrong - look at ...read more
Donald Trump is the cancer that keeps on spreading. He has normalized hate and bigotry to the point that we now have white supremacists sending out robocalls to accuse Trump's opponent of being a "closet homosexual":A white-nationalist supporter of Donald Trump has launched a ...read more
What does a post by Robert Reich and a meme placing a well known Republican's 7-year-old daughter's face in a gas chamber have in common? A very real fear of political violence at the hands of Trump's dangerously unstable supporters.Robert Reich posted the following conversation ...read more
You have to give it to Donald Trump's long suffering campaign manager Kellyanne Conway -- she takes political hackery to truly new heights and has provided amazing insight into how to shamelessly abdicate all of one's principles for wealth and fame. There is a general perception ...read more
You could hear the press heave a huge sigh of relief when the Trump "Grab them by the pussy" tape came out. They finally had a way to take Trump apart without discussing the rampant racism of his campaign and his followers.Vox's Dylan Matthews chronicles the media's curious ...read more
Paul Krugman must be psychic. He predicted that when Trump started to lose, he would go into a Derp Spiral of insanity. And now we know what that looks like:The Donald Trump campaign will expand its war on the media and the Hillary Clinton campaign by attacking Carlos Slim, a ...read more