No other Republican has done more damage to the United States than Mitch McConnell. In 2010, before he became Senate Majority Leader, he famously said his party's "top political priority should be to deny President Obama a second term." Once he became Majority Leader, he rammed ...read more
The New Yorker's stunning expose of the server communications between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank during the 2016 election is a must-read piece that exposes the tantalizing threads of the Trump-Russia investigation. Reporter Dexter Filkins reaches no hard ...read more
Today was not a good day for Donald Trump. His former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty of eight criminal counts, including five counts of tax fraud, and Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, also pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws. Cohen also ...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
It's hard to remember that before he became a full-time resident of the Upside-Down, Rudy Giuliani was regarded as "the hottest political property in the country". For his work as Mayor of New York City following the events of September 11th, Giuliani earned the respect of the ...read more
Since the election of Donald Trump, liberals have begun to take once-conservative voices like William Kristol and David Frum seriously, as they have become some of the strongest opponents to the President’s agenda. Simultaneously, they have also heeded the words of the highest ...read more
In an extraordinary moment on Fox News yesterday, host Dagen McDowell openly blurted out what Trump supporters secretly worry about when assessing a potential Robert Mueller interview with president Trump. What if he lies on record? "How in the world could [Trump] ever cooperate ...read more
For many months, the Trump administration maintained that it "did not collude with Russia" during the 2016 election campaign. Now that so much evidence to the contrary is publicly available, Trump and his team have are now accepting the fact that they colluded, but are now ...read more
Media Matters For America put together a remarkable video of the two completely alternate universes going on at Fox News these days. One is presented by Sean Hannity -- a professional cheerleader for president Trump whose job it is to cover up whatever the president happens to be ...read more
Donald Trump is a white supremacist, admitted sexual predator and a malignant narcissist. He longs to be an authoritarian with the power to do great harm to as many people as possible. He’s a man that’s never been loved, has no idea how to love anything but himself and has taught ...read more
Note: This is the second of a two-part series of articles concerning the Magnitsky Act. To read the first article, go here. The Magnitsky Act, which cut off Russian oligarchs' access to their American holdings as punishment for the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, represents a ...read more
If a sitting president sends a public message to his Attorney General telling him he should personally intervene to stop federal criminal investigation into his potential criminal behavior, he is attempting to obstruct justice. That this needs spelling out is a testament to the ...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
In an effort to completely white wash president Trump's treasonous comments to Vladimir Putin about the hacking of the US election in 2016, Trump propaganda outlet Breitbart.com has been working over time to undo the damage. In a hilariously pitiful post yesterday, the Alt Right ...read more
Karl Marx once wrote that history repeats itself, once as tragedy and once as farce. This week, two very different people embodied this maxim as they fooled Republicans through the power of the NRA. The first was Sacha Baron Cohen, whose Showtime series Who is America? premiered ...read more
When asked who Trump believes about the Russian hacking of the 2016 election -- his own intelligence agencies or Vladimir Putin, the American president gave a direct and unequivocal answer. He believes Putin -- a fascistic despot with a history of lying and killing -- over his ...read more
You have to give it to Donald Trump. The man has an uncanny ability to describe reality as the exact inverse of what almost everyone outside of his nutty supporters believes it to be. At a meeting in Brussels with Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg, Trump, who is in the midsts of a ...read more
The narrative the far left likes to promote about Russia is that it is morally superior to America and a victim of its imperialist agenda. Intellectuals like Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, and conspiracy theorists like Caitlin Johnstone routinely make light of Russian crimes ...read more
Last week, the US House Intelligence Committee released approximately 3,517 Facebook ads purchased by the Russians between 2015-17, meant to influence the 2016 election, all of which are available to download. USA Today conducted a study of the ads and concluded that more than ...read more
Last night's primaries in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia garnered more attention for who lost rather than who won. In Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, the former Congressman and perennial Presidential candidate lost the nomination for governor this fall. Although his old ...read more