Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke is a rising star in the Democratic party and has gathered steam as a contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Perhaps threatened by his ascension, Bernie Sanders militants have relentlessly attacked him, claiming amongst other things that he ...read more

In an attempt to maintain the peace around the Thanksgiving table last week, the Kansas City Star recirculated a column by the Washington Post's Republican opinion writer Marc Thiessen. I stumbled across it on Facebook and the title alone told me exactly what the column would ...read more

According to the Washington Post, Ivanka Trump sent "hundreds of emails" pertaining to official government business from her personal email account. After president Trump spent much of the 2016 Presidential election leading chants of "Lock her up" in regards to Hillary Clinton's ...read more

Photo: Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images Bernie 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

Last night's election was a triumph for Democrats, who managed to take back the House of Representatives and a majority of the governorships across America. Yes, there was some heartbreak along the way - Andrew Gillum lost the governorship of Florida to an unabashed racist, ...read more

I'll confess here at the outset: my tolerance for Donald Trump and all of his accompanying cruel whimsy has reached an all new low. Chiefly, the shit flinging, without any real accountability for it, is overloading my logic circuits to the point of seizing up -- to the point ...read more

Buzzfeed broke the story today that the Trump administration has been waging a secret war on marijuana, aiming to "portray the drug as a national threat," regardless of what the amassing scientific evidence shows about the plant's medicinal qualities: The White House has ...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

If you want to understand just how far gone Trump supporters are, take a look at this video posted by NBC News of a Trump rally in West Virginia. Trump's supporters can be heard shouting "lock her up!", literally hours after Paul Manafort was convicted of eight felony counts and ...read more

Glenn Greenwald's ability to stay focused on one particular narrative over months, years, and potentially decades is nothing short of amazing. Regardless of mountains of evidence disproving whatever pet theory he has decided to adopt, Greenwald is unwavering in his belief that if ...read more

The strangest thing has been happening over the last couple of months. Ever since winning her primary in Queens, I've been hearing an awful lot about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Most of it negative. Some of it has been her own doing, like when she got into a pointless Twitter fight ...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

Few reporters have had a tougher time during the Trump Administration than CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta. At this time last year, White House aide Stephen Miller attacked him for pushing back against the White House's immigration policy at a press briefing. Last ...read more

A few days ago, Jonathan Chait dug into the mystery of why so many on the fringe left like Glenn Greenwald refuse to believe Russia successfully waged cyberwarfare against us: The purest form of this sentiment on the far left is a vein of attacks that are almost indistinguishable ...read more

This is part one of a two part piece on the story behind the Magnitsky Act Everyone knows that on June 9th, 2016, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Although Junior ...read more

California's jungle primary system, which allows the top two candidates to move to the general election regardless of party, threatened to crash the Blue Wave if too many Democratic congressional candidates split the vote and allowed Republicans to advance. Although the media is ...read more

On Tuesday, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, released a document detailing millions of dollars paid to Trump's mobbed up lawyer Michael Cohen by both a Russian oligarch and several corporations: Among the other payments to Mr. Cohen’s company described in the ...read more