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

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Dec 6, 2018

What did the Trump family see when they traveled across the country during the presidential campaign? The short answer is dollar signs. The Trump organization announced a new mid-grade chain of hotels named “American Idea” on Monday, which will debut in Mississippi. According to ...read more

• By Alyona Minkovski
  Nov 9, 2018

What kind of a person likes to dangle the threat of human extinction in front of the people he has sworn to protect? That would be the current President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. This morning multiple news organizations have reported that White House officials say ...read more

• By Alyona Minkovski
  Nov 9, 2018

In yet another sign that they're done pretending they work for the American people, House Republicans got rid of a regulation that keeps oil companies from secretly paying off officials in other countries: Using the little-known Congressional Review Act, the House GOP voted on ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

In the midst of the outrage over Donald Trump picking a powerful Oil Baron with disturbingly close ties to Russia is the much less reported on oil war being waged against the United States. OPEC and Russia just signed a deal to lower their oil production explicitly to drive ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 13, 2016

One of the few hopes Donald Trump has to win this election is a 2008-style sudden collapse of the economy. Sadly for the Orange Buffoon, the much-derided Obama recovery continues to build to a crescendo. The Department of Labor's report shows that September was another solid ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

While the polls might show a tightening race after a series of negative Hillary Clinton stories, when it comes to actually voting, most analysts believe centrist Americans will come to their senses and either not vote, or go with Clinton.  There are several reasons as to why ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I will be the first to admit that I’ve been following this ISIS debate and coverage too closely; one must be wary of what the corporate media is trying to draw your attention to while something else is going on right behind you. I just watched a forum led by The Independent ...read more

• By Thor Benson
  Nov 9, 2018

You might not have heard about Republican congressman Tim Griffin, an otherwise nondescript conservative lawmaker from Arkansas, but bear with me on this. Before being elected to Congress in 2010, Griffin, whose physical appearance and speaking voice remind me of a stumpier, ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 24, 2016

The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family's drinking water had begun "bubbling" like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural gas. At first, ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018