“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”—Frederick Douglass Once again we find ourselves in anguish over yet another string of extinguished black lives. We oscillate between boiling rage and compensatory desensitization on a daily, if not […]

During Tuesday’s Senate session, Sen. Cory Booker took to the floor to fight for the nominations of Judge Julien Neals to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and of Judge Edward L. Stanton III to the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, both of whom were […]

To Donald Trump, everything is a game. Asked about his position on President Obama’s country of birth, he promised a statement later in the day, saying this: “We have to keep the suspense going.” Asked by @MariaBartiromo if @BarackObama was born in the US, Trump says he will make statement today: "We have to keep the […]

Monday’s presidential debate was widely seen as a disaster for Donald Trump. He came off as flustered and defensive; he talked over Hillary Clinton and moderator Lester Holt; he refused to give straight answers to basic questions. Above all, he failed to show that he had the temperament or preparedness to serve as commander-in-chief. Trump made several unforced errors that […]

Monday’s presidential debate opened with a question about jobs. Hillary Clinton was the first to answer. She spoke about jobs, and then she spoke about equal pay for women. And about paid family leave. And about affordable childcare. Because an economy that works for women includes all of these things, not just a job. Donald […]

Hillary Clinton showed America precisely why she is the best (and frankly, only) qualified candidate running for president. She was firm and steady and displayed a total command of the issues. Donald Trump was nervous, blustering and erratic, with no perceptible grasp of fundamental questions. Here are highlights from real-time coverage: Donald Trump has given us the worst debate […]

“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 […]

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, […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

At a DNC fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, President Obama said: There’s a reason why we haven’t had a woman president; that we as a society still grapple with what it means to see powerful women. And it still troubles us in a lot of ways, unfairly, and that expresses itself in all sorts of ways. […]

Eric Boehlert highlights an incredible statement from presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace, offered during an interview with his Fox colleague Sandra Smith: While Hillary Clinton has long been more transparent than Donald Trump, he conceded, Trump is now winning the transparency debate on health. How could he justify this contention? Because, as Boehlert explains: Wallace […]

Donald Trump has repeatedly said he won’t release his taxes because he’s under audit. But that dubious rationale has been disputed by Warren Buffett, among many others. A week ago, Trump gave himself away by saying he would release his tax returns immediately if Hillary Clinton produced her deleted personal emails. "Let her release emails. I'll release my […]

Trump's use of foundation as piggy bank might be biggest scandal of '16, and @Fahrenthold will be on Pulitzer list https://t.co/RtyuHnMCNT — Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) September 20, 2016 The latest reporting from @Fahrenthold appears to show Trump viewed his foundation as his personal slush fund: https://t.co/wnsEtpOZ4V — Nope. (@JoyAnnReid) September 20, 2016 As my colleague […]