There has never been an American president as spiritually impoverished as Donald Trump. And his spiritual poverty, like an overdrawn checking account that keeps imposing new penalties on a customer already in difficult straits, is MORE
Vanished are the public rallies, primary night parties, door knocking, and offices in key states, as the likely Democratic candidate Joe Biden shifts to a virtual campaign. The Biden team will have to learn as MORE
After the Ebola epidemic in 2014, Bill Gates gave a TED Talks with what he predicted was coming, a pandemic originating with a virus. He discussed how we needed to prepare for it, because at MORE
“I think the entire package provides economic relief overall for about 10 weeks,” Mnuchin explained. “Hopefully we will kill this virus quicker and we won’t need it, but we have liquidity to put into the MORE
Not really. Deserve has nothing to do with presidential politics or the coronavirus. But somebody has something to do with what’s happening to Biden: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic governor of New York. Cuomo has everything to MORE
Matt Gertz, a Media Matters senior fellow and the foremost chronicler of the insidious Trump-Fox News feedback loop, connected the dots: “Roughly an hour before his comments, a Fox News medical correspondent argued on-air that coronavirus MORE
President Trump is playing a shell game with the American people and rejecting the founding principle of this nation: We have a president, not a king. In a case to be argued before the Supreme MORE
President Donald Trump’s theory of executive power starts and ends with his “absolute rights.” Trump invoked that catchphrase earlier this month, when, in apparent response to his angry tweets, the Justice Department undercut its own MORE
Many scholars agree that once a president has been impeached, he or she loses the power to pardon anyone for criminal offenses connected to the articles of impeachment. Less noticed is that even after the Senate’s failure MORE
Can Bernie win? It’s the 270-electoral vote question. The #1 Democratic issue this year is beating Trump. While Barry Goldwater and George McGovern are examples of ideologically extreme candidates badly positioned to win over swing MORE
The new Russia drama is a shady tale of secret briefings, compromised trust, mysterious intelligence, improbable characters with hidden agendas and purges of American spy chiefs. But most importantly, this dark new revival of a saga that MORE
1. Baby bonds Studies show that earning a good living is not enough to help people of color move up the socioeconomic ladder. 2. No cash bail Nearly half a million Americans are in jail MORE
In a OpEd that ran in The New York Times shortly before Wednesday’s, 9th Democratic debate, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin claimed Mayor Mike Bloomberg was not a racist but had an empty head when it MORE
The GOP Doesn’t Need Trump—It’s Already Rigged the System The Daily Beast featured an excerpt from a new book by Dan Pfeiffer, detailing how the GOP has put their thumb on the scales of democracy. MORE
From The Washington Post: Since Senator Mitt Romney voted to impeach Trump, he has been excoriated by most Republicans, vilified on Fox News as a traitor, and called a “disgrace” by Trump. As Romney has MORE
This video was posted on twitter and David Doel played it on his YouTube channel. Bloomberg’s own words are: “There was a guy…Bernie Sanders, who would’ve beaten Donald Trump; the polls show he would’ve walked MORE
The new decade in American politics has started with a hangover that keeps on getting worse – a quickening of the downward democratic spiral we have witnessed over the past 30 years. So much of MORE
Not guilty. Not guilty. In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business. MORE
As an innovative director and producer, Ridley Scott remains one of the most influential creative minds in sci-fi filmmaking. He has launched enormously successful franchises, like Alien in the late 70s, which are still lauded and carry weight to MORE
I’ve never been a fan of Davos, that annual gathering of the rich and fatuous. One virtue of the pageant of preening and self-importance, however, is that it brings out the worst in some people, MORE
There is justice in John Roberts being forced to preside silently over the impeachment trial of President Trump, hour after hour, day after tedious day. The chief justice of the United States, as presiding officer, doesn’t speak MORE
This afternoon, if all goes according to schedule, all 100 members of the United States Senate will take an oath to “do impartial justice” as jurors in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Senate Majority MORE
As Mitch McConnell has secured the votes in the Senate to move forward with a rigged impeachment trial without a deal to include witnesses, let me preface the following op-ed with a Collins quote from MORE
“Bill Barr may be the most unvetted attorney general in history, which is strange since he had served as AG under George H.W. Bush and was well known in DC circles. How could he have MORE
Life under this presidential administration has brought many dark days of despair. Looking ahead to the 2020 elections, many members of the media see doom and defeat. Away from the White House, however, this year MORE