“Mirrors,” the new ad from the Clinton campaign, features girls looking at themselves in the mirror as Trump’s demeaning comments about women’s looks echo in the background. “Is this the president we want for our daughters?” asks the ad. Trump does not respect women. (Nor does his running mate.) His vile comments about women’s appearance […]

The New York Times profiles Shareblue today and says this: [Shareblue is] already warming up for the biggest event of the general election so far: the first debate, on Monday night. It has already published a piece calling on moderators to fact-check Mr. Trump on the spot, and will continue through debate night, whipping up support […]

Michelle Obama's giving a barn burner of a speech for Hillary Clinton. Says only Clinton, not Trump, has any idea how to be president. — Emo Desperado (@JoyAnnReid) September 16, 2016 “When I hear folks say they don’t feel inspired in this election, let me tell you, I disagree,” said the First Lady. Michelle Obama: […]

Clinton laughs off health scares at Black Women’s Agenda symposium https://t.co/0YugLyjFsn pic.twitter.com/aS8jfzYQLN — Ruptly (@Ruptly) September 16, 2016 “I’m thrilled to be with you. I’m thrilled to be associated with you. I’m also thrilled to be back on the campaign trail! As the world knows, I was a little under the weather recently. The good […]

A game-changing story from the New York Times: Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show. The 1995 […]

Following Donald Trump’s disastrous debate performance, during which Hillary Clinton confronted him with his body-shaming comments about Alicia Machado, Kellyanne Conway tried to defend her candidate and minimize his history of sexism. Megyn Kelly was having none of it. First, Conway complained that Trump hadn’t been given enough credit for being “gracious” by not bringing up Clinton’s marital history, […]

For decades now, Donald Trump has shown a callous disregard for how his words and actions affect other people — whether it’s calling Latinos “rapists” or calling women “fat” or “flat-chested” or “pigs.” In Alicia Machado’s case, he mocked her further by calling her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” because she is Latina and she […]

This behavior is reminiscent of Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, grabbing a female reporter by the arm during the primaries. https://twitter.com/leximccammond/status/780604698160136192 https://twitter.com/leximccammond/status/780604905799254020 McCammond elaborates on her encounter with Trump: I asked, “How would you respond to young women who are nervous about voting for you?” This question was inspired by the countless students I spoke to earlier […]

“The best case,” the New York Times editors argue, for Hillary Clinton, is “about the challenges this country faces, and Mrs. Clinton’s capacity to rise to them.” And then they set forth presenting the evidence of her abundant capacity, demonstrated over four decades in public life. It doesn’t get any better than this: Over 40 […]

There is really very little we can say about this other than to warn you that it’s truly bizarre (and note the reporter reflexively recoiling): Johnson is not a serious option for young voters, not least of which because of his reckless environmental policies. This tongue-wagging moment just confirms what we already know.

I am a born and raised New Yorker. My parents immigrated from the south of India. My skin is a darker shade of brown, my hair is jet black, giving me what has been called an “ethnically ambiguous” look. Since I was a young child, I have been asked the question, “Where are you from?” Most people […]

https://twitter.com/anamariecox/status/776913384625344513 In August, Trump said at a rally: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick— [boos from audience] If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” That led to […]

Economic policy does not exist in a vacuum, but in the real world with real consequences for real people. And while individual choices do make a difference in one’s financial security, the range of opportunity to any individual person, in which their choices are made, has an even bigger impact. A candidate who advocates economic […]

The media want a horse race, so a new Bloomberg Politics poll of likely voters in Ohio, showing Trump with a 5-point lead over Hillary Clinton, is getting a lot of attention. However, as with any individual poll, this is just a snapshot of one moment in time. The average over time still shows Clinton with […]

This is what Hillary Clinton means when she refers to an “implacable wall of hostility” to Obama’s agenda from the Republicans: During a press briefing on Capitol Hill, Vice President Joe Biden bluntly admonished Republicans to yield on their unprecedented inaction on Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination: "Give Merrick Garland a vote.Don't set this dangerous […]

There are really no words to describe this. https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/782393839986368512 As if that wasn’t enough, there’s this: Trump on Clinton: "I don’t even think she’s loyal to Bill, you want to know the truth. And really, folks, really, why should she be, right?" — Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) October 2, 2016 No one exhibiting this kind of depraved behavior should […]

FACT: The most prominent and accomplished people in America vouch for Hillary Clinton’s honesty and integrity, from Barack and Michelle Obama to Warren Buffett, Jimmy Carter, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden. FACT: The most respected activists and progressive leaders in the country support Hillary Clinton, from John Lewis to Dolores Huerta, Lilly Ledbetter, Bernie Sanders and the […]

With Election Day less than 40 days away, this is what Donald Trump saw fit to do at 5:30 AM: Staying up all night to shame women, that’s Trump’s idea of campaigning. So Hillary Clinton decided to show him what a real overnight tweetstorm should look like: It's 3:20am. As good a time as any […]

If there’s one message I want to deliver to everybody: If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for Trump. If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for Trump. If you vote for a third-party candidate who’s got no chance to win, that’s a vote for Trump. In addition to what the President is saying here, […]

The people of Flint, Michigan made a fine political backdrop for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when he needed to convince white voters that he’s not an uncaring bigot, but when it comes to actually helping the folks who have been suffering through a GOP-caused water crisis, the party’s lawmakers are prepared to let the […]

One of the questions surrounding the Trump Foundation is why Trump hasn’t contributed any money himself since 2008. Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold may have found the answer: Because Trump was reportedly directing money owed to him or his businesses to the foundation. The laws governing the diversion of income into a foundation were written, […]

As the 2016 election enters its final phase, we need to state the truth as it is: Gary Johnson and Jill Stein have consistently proven throughout the campaign cycle that they are not credible candidates. They have proposed horrendous policy ideas that would harm people across the country. Libertarian Johnson supports TPP, fracking, Citizens United, and no min wage. […]

Injecting some satire into pre-debate discussion, I launched #TrumpSoftballs to mimic the corporate media’s sheepish treatment of Trump. Funny and scary at the same time: https://twitter.com/SuZeeQP/status/780148792578441216 #TrumpSoftballs Do you like me? Wink twice for "Yes, I like you." OMG he winked! Twice!! Swoon!! — Eric Schmeltzer 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@JustSchmeltzer) September 25, 2016 Who's the man? #TrumpSoftBalls — […]

The New York Times sounds the alarm about the upcoming presidential debates: There was not much of a contest in [NBC’s Commander-in-Chief] forum with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Mrs. Clinton answered the questions of the moderator, Matt Lauer, in coherent sentences, often with specific details. Mr. Trump alternated between rambling statements and grandiose boasts when he […]

Peter Daou has tracked the corporate media’s sustained and duplicitous effort to impugn Hillary Clinton’s honesty: Since the early nineties, the corporate media have used a seemingly innocuous interrogatory to create a self-fulfilling loop. By repeatedly asking whether Hillary has a trust and honesty problem, they have created the very issue that they pretend to objectively report on. Put simply: if you ask whether someone […]

As part of his “outreach” to the Black community, Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “law and order candidate,” has weighed in on what he described as “violence in the Black community.” Trump’s solution is a return to controversial and ineffective “stop and frisk” policies that were once implemented in New York City. Said Trump: “You have […]

During an interview with Philadelphia station WPHT, Donald Trump Jr. “argued that the media unfairly under-covered various Clinton controversies,” then asserted: “The media has been her number one surrogate in this. Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up,” Trump said. He added: “They’ve let her slide […]

In September 2013, Republican Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Florida would be “reviewing the allegations” in a class-action lawsuit filed in New York against Trump University, which has been accused of fraud by people who paid to attend seminars. Days after Bondi made the announcement, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made a $25,000 […]

Matt Lauer’s moderation of NBC’s Commander-in-Chief forum was widely panned—and deservedly so—but Lauer’s fault was not that he did something unusual. To the contrary, Lauer’s performance was a one hour microcosm of a year’s worth of media coverage. It included the three core elements of what has been a relentless double standard: Antagonism and scorn for Clinton, an unhealthy obsession with her emails, and sheepish acquiescence […]

It’s Tuesday, which can only mean that there’s yet another Donald Trump controversy that would end any other politician’s career, but which the national political media will move on from in three, two… On Monday night, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted out a meme that compared our alleged “Syrian Refugee Problem” with a bowl of Skittles: […]