The US Democratic Party is undergoing something of an identity crisis as it debates what direction to take ahead of the looming battle with President Donald Trump, a Republican, in November. A tension between the MORE
Administrative savings from Medicare for All would be about $600 billion a year. Savings on prescription drugs would be between $200 billion and $300 billion a year, if we paid around the same price as other wealthy countries pay for their drugs. MORE
In Leonard Pitts Jr.’s latest column, he addresses the Democratic Party’s candidates. He focuses specifically on Michael Bloomberg’s previous, racist comments and his unconstitutional ‘Stop and Frisk’ policy. Pitts wonders if African Americans will be MORE
We are watching the rule of law collapse in real time. It is no surprise that President Trump on Tuesday meddled in the federal case against his friend Roger Stone — who is convicted of sabotaging an MORE
Source: Political scientists study electability, but electability ain’t no science. Instead, researchers say, it’s basically a layer of ex post facto rationalization that we slather over a stack of psychological biases, media influence and self-fulfilling MORE
An op-ed that echoes the Apostles’ Creed was penned by George Conway, or Mr. Kellyanne Conway, in a satirical skewering of the GOP’s impeachment acquittal of Trump. The piece mocks many of the ridiculous comments MORE
By: Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, Sylvia Garcia and Jason Crow Over the past two weeks, we have argued the impeachment case against President Trump, presenting overwhelming evidence that he solicited foreign interference to cheat in the next election and MORE
***I hate to submit anything subject to a paywall, but it is the 1st of the month: By, Paul Krugman At this point, the Democratic presidential nomination is very much up in the air. Not MORE
The exact nature of Bolton’s version of events is uncertain, as is its potential impact on the trial. What’s clearer is the irony it represents. Over the past five months, some potential witnesses chose to MORE
Obamacare’s Secret Success Source: With little notice, the ACA has racked up a big win – near-universal coverage Under the Affordable Care Act, several states have already achieved near-universal coverage, and without anywhere near the national MORE
The retired pilot responds to recent comments from the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on the way the former vice president talks. “As a small boy in Denison, Texas, I remember vividly the anguish of being MORE
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A National Archives exhibit celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage is raising controversy. A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” A sign that reads “Trump & MORE
I tried to capture some of the speech’s disconcerting oddness in my write-up of the event. In many ways, the remarks the president made were typical of him. And that provides the media with a challenge: Describing Trump as he really is can make it seem as if a report is “anti-Trump” and that the reporter is trying to make the president look foolish.
But for media outlets that view themselves as above taking sides, attempts to provide a sober, “balanced” look at presidential speeches often end up normalizing things that are decidedly not normal. MORE
In case anyone was in doubt about just how ugly the 2020 election season will be, last week should have served as a five-alarm warning. The Signal: Big-city mayors in Texas want to maintain the MORE
In my high school in rural North Carolina, a plastic table was set up just off to the side of the atrium where we all congregated after lunch every day. Behind that pamphlet-strewn table was MORE
In a recently removed tweet because of shining stupidity, Trump pointed to the Stock Market and asked his followers how their “409s” were doing? He finally figured it out and tweeted something that makes more MORE
The threats started on Saturday evening when he tweeted a vow to respond to Iranian retaliation for Qassem Soleimani’s killing with an attack on “52 Iranian sites,” including locations “important to Iran & the Iranian culture.” American MORE
When the United States bombed its own former air base in Baghdad to kill Qassem Soleimani Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quick to praise the “decision to eliminate Soleimani in response to imminent threats to American lives.” MORE
I’ll let David Doel explain (with glaring evidence) why nobody should ever trust a political pundit in the mainstream media regardless of how impressive their credentials are. They just might not know their asses from MORE
Here’s a question: Does anybody have any idea what the Republican Party stands for in 2020? One way to find out: As you are out and about marking the new year, it is likely you MORE
From The Washington Post: Almost from the moment he took office, President Trump seized on a theory that troubled his senior aides: Ukraine, he told them on many occasions, had tried to stop him from MORE
On Saturday, December 14th Joe Burrow received the highest first place vote percentage of any Heisman trophy winner in the trophy’s 84 year history. He thanked the normal people, his parents and his current and MORE
Is there nothing too petty for this president? Early Thursday morning, President Trump took to Twitter (where his current follower count is 67.5 million) to attack a 16-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome and tell her to “work MORE
Trump has yammered endlessly about having all these witnesses testify in his inevitable impeachment trial forthcoming in the Senate. He wants the whistleblower, Adam Schiff, Joe and Hunter Biden on the ‘set’ and that’s just MORE