New data released Monday explains the numbers behind Sen. Bernie Sanders’ often-cited statistic that the three richest Americans hold more wealth than the 160 million people who make up the bottom 50% of the population. MORE
While soliciting campaign contributions through email, George Buck, a Florida Republican candidate who is running for Congress, called for Omar’s execution, then denied doing so, then suggested it again later that same day. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Danielle Stella, MORE
Pelosi’s motivations appear to be political: fearful of losing her majority and fiercely protective of the more conservative members of her caucus, she has directed the impeachment proceeding to be as small, focused and palatable MORE
Three of the professors agreed that Trump should be impeached: Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School, Pam Karlan of Stanford Law School, and Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina School of Law. The MORE
Molly Jong-Fast of The Daily Beast sat down for an exclusive interview with Lisa Page “the former FBI lawyer whose text-message exchanges with agent Peter Strzok that belittled Donald Trump and expressed fear at his MORE
Imagine a government with the power to spy on any critic, reporter or activist. A state with the capacity to extort or silence by tracking not just a person’s movements but her conversations, contacts, photos, MORE
Brent Larkin of cleveland.com wrote a scathing OpEd about Ohio’s Rep. Gym Jordan-(Lunatic-Ohio), calling him “the second most contemptible human being in the entire U.S. government.” He explained that gerrymandering the hell out of the MORE
“We need to open our eyes,” the leader declared to his rapt far-right audience. “There are over two million illegal immigrants bedding down in this state tonight! This state spent $3bn last year on services MORE
It’s difficult to talk about impeachment, but this can help. MORE
The Washington Post reports, Trump Jr. and Trump campaign senior adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle were shell-shocked by the angry reception they met on Sunday at a book event at the University of California at Los Angeles. “When MORE
When Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, the top marginal tax rate on personal income was 70 percent, tax rates on capital gains and corporate income were significantly higher than at present, and the estate tax was MORE
Would a billionaire buying Fox News change conservative narrative? Or would it just be another wealthy campaign of influence? Source: First, buy Fox News. I’m entirely serious. It is a journalistic toxic-waste dump that has MORE
Maybe it’s because I don’t eat meat nor do I frequent fast food joints unless I’m starving and that’s only option available, but I just don’t get all this violence and mayhem over a chicken MORE
A bit over four years ago, I was with Donald Trump when, perhaps for the first time, he was publicly booed in the context of the presidency. Given the catcalls he received last Sunday at MORE
Who is the most dangerous and damaging political group in the USA? Is it the right or is it the left? According to Beau, there’s a third and far more dangerous category…moderates. MORE
To: Senate Republicans By now it should have dawned on you that there is no escape. You are going to have to render a verdict not just on Donald’s Trump’s policies, but on his personal MORE
The Trump family is reportedly exploring a sale of the Trump Hotel in Washington D.C., partly out of concerns raised by ethics watchdogs and emoluments lawsuits that the president is profiting off of his presidency. MORE
By the New York Times Editorial Board: In the summer of 1950, outraged by Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist inquisition, Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican senator from Maine, stood to warn her party that its own behavior MORE
In the corrosive and dangerous Trump presidency, the outrages fly so fast and the chaos mounts so thoroughly that it’s easy to pass off the entire unsettling phenomenon as one more made-for-TV-and-Twitter unreality show. New MORE
If the Senate were to remove President Donald Trump from office—which could happen only on a bipartisan vote—the 2016 election results wouldn’t be overturned. Democrats wouldn’t control the White House. America’s reward for convicting Trump MORE
Over the weekend, in a rage over impeachment, President Trump accused Representative Adam Schiff of “treason,” promised “Big Consequences” for the whistle-blower who sounded the alarm about his phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and shared a warning — MORE
Although it should be taken with a grain of salt because Mitt Romney is known to flip-flop and vote for Trump’s fascist agenda, Romney is one of the few Republicans who has expressed ‘concern’ about MORE
Donald Trump is the King of Chaos. He has lied at least 12,000 times since becoming president of the United States. …..”Chaos is at the nucleus Age of Trump. This chaos and the disruption and destruction it MORE
WASHINGTON — Everyone here is keyed up for the Big One.The One that’s going to finally bring Donald Trump down. As soon as the news broke Wednesday night in The Washington Post that a whistle-blower had accused MORE
Medicaid, the government program that provides health care to more than 75 million low-income and disabled Americans, isn’t necessarily free. It’s the only major welfare program that can function like a loan. Medicaid recipients over MORE