Donald Trump has refused to be transparent with the American people, on a number of issues, including who visits the White House. Trump has thus far refused to authorize the U.S. Secret Service to release its logs of the comings and goings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and, as a result, the public has no idea who is […]

This week has seen the crisis surrounding Donald Trump’s Russia ties reach a progressively hotter fever pitch. After FBI Director James Comey confirmed that his agency has been investigating “coordination between” the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to tilt the election in Trump’s favor, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) committed what may amount to […]

Mike Pence’s approval rating has dropped significantly as his role in the scandals enveloping the Trump administration becomes clearer, according to a new poll from Fox News. Pence has dropped from a 50 percent approval in April to 42 approval now. His disapproval number also increased 10 percent, now at 43 percent. Sources associated with Pence, […]

The sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey was greeted with immediate surprise, but also with suspicion that this move was nothing more than a cover-up by Donald Trump and his administration. As if to prove the baselessness of Trump’s purported reasons for the firing — that the administration felt Comey mishandled the investigation into […]

The White House shocked the nation Tuesday night with the announcement that Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey. But the announcement is only the beginning. The supposed justification for the firing — that Comey mishandled the bureau’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails by publicly trashing her — is not ringing true with anyone, […]

The Republican plan to repeal Obamacare has been a miserable failure with the public, and a public relations disaster for Republicans. But even among Republican lawmakers who have long dreamed of kicking Americans off health care, the plan cannot make any headway. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has scheduled a Thursday vote on the […]

Montana’s Republican congressional candidate, Greg Gianforte, has been charged with assault. On the night before Election Day, he “body slammed” a reporter who asked him to comment on the GOP health care repeal bill following the release of the CBO score revealing that it would leave 23 million people without health coverage. Three local newspapers have rescinded their endorsements of Gianforte, […]

The White House announced Tuesday night that FBI Director James Comey has been fired. The announcement comes as the agency is in the middle of an investigation into the Trump campaign’s communications, and possible coordination, with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election. According to the White House statement, the firing was made on […]

Breitbart News is reportedly one of the subjects of a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, raising the question of the role played by Donald Trump’s senior advisor and campaign chairman Steve Bannon, who led Breitbart for years. McClatchy reports that investigators are looking into a Russian cyber operation that helped to […]

It is disgusting, but not exactly surprising, that a Republican candidate would think it appropriate to physically assault a reporter for asking questions. After all, Donald Trump spent his entire campaign attacking the press and encouraging violence against those who criticized him. And on Wednesday night, Greg Gianforte, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate in the special election […]

The Trump administration continues to attack the legitimacy of the media, and the GOP tries to shift attention away from the investigation into Trump’s ties with Russia by focusing instead on leaks about those ties to the media. Nevertheless, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) focused on an essential truth during the Senate hearing Monday on the investigation into […]

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, slammed Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), chairman of the committee, for his bizarre attempt to provide cover for Donald Trump and the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election. Schiff said that Nunes’ behavior had raised “grave” concerns about the committee’s ability […]

Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee met with Donald Trump at the White House, even as his committee is supposed to be engaged in oversight of Trump, his team, and their connections to Russian government attempts to influence the election. Nunes served on Trump’s presidential transition team. The congressman held a media […]

Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate for the open House seat in Montana, allegedly just physically assaulted a reporter. Ben Jacobs of The Guardian tweeted, “Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses.” In a follow-up, he noted that a television crew was present. Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses […]

Donald Trump and the Republicans have engaged in a progressively more disastrous campaign to try to sell their plan to repeal Obamacare, and despite some desperate 11th-hour revisions, will likely fail to pass it through the House of Representatives on Thursday. Part of that effort has involved rather absurd attempts to spin their way out […]

Donald Trump’s budget proposal is, by basically any measure, a nightmare. It slashes funding for food stamps. It cuts Medicaid in half. It cuts Social Security Disability Insurance. It blocks the poor from going to Planned Parenthood. It eliminates funding to clean up polluted lakes. It eliminates funding for public defenders. It even defunds the […]

Donald Trump’s taste in staff and advisers is most distasteful indeed. His administration is overwhelmingly white and male, and filled with extremely wealthy people who have no expertise whatsoever. Steve Bannon, the self-proclaimed leader of the so-called “alt-right” white nationalist movement, is Trump’s top strategist. Now, according to the Daily Beast, the two have “personally intervened” to […]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has decided to push a vote on the Republicans’ health care repeal plan for Thursday, but even with some desperate 11th-hour changes, the plan is still unlikely to pass. That desperation took shape on the eve of the scheduled vote when House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Sessions […]

Robert Mercer, the billionaire hedge fund manager who has spent millions in support of Donald Trump, is being sued by a former employee, who has made explosive allegations of racist statements by Mercer. David Magerman, a research scientist who worked at Mercer’s Renaissance Technologies LLC for 20 years, alleges that he was verbally abused by the Mercer […]

World leaders are using America as a punchline to their jokes, thanks to Donald Trump’s use of his position to promote nonsensical conspiracy theories. For years Trump complained that American leaders were making the country a laughingstock. During the Reagan era, Trump took out a full page newspaper advertisement alleging “The world is laughing at […]

Donald Trump has never shown any indication that he understands or cares about the limits of his office. Whether he is blocking people from entering the country based on religion, trying to punish local governments for not demanding people’s immigration papers, or threatening to sue journalists who offend him, Trump appears to consider himself above the law. And […]

Donald Trump and the GOP repeatedly declared that Hillary Clinton should not be president because of an FBI investigation into her email practices. Now that James Comey has revealed an investigation exists into the possibility of collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government, we should hold the Trump administration and the GOP to their words that an FBI investigation […]

Donald Trump’s decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian airfield was hailed by many corporate media and foreign policy establishment types, but in addition to the myriad questions surrounding the motivation and constitutionality of Trump’s unilateral action, the ineffectiveness of the strike is becoming the story. According to multiple reports, flights from the airbase resumed on […]

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) began fumbling as MSNBC’s Katy Tur quickly pointed out his weak attempt to use a false equivalence as she asked him about the ongoing FBI investigation of the Trump administration. Tur pointed to statements from Trump, his campaign underlings, and others who had accused Hillary Clinton of being under an FBI […]

The Trump budget’s draconian cuts for services for the poor and middle class target popular government programs like Medicaid and Social Security, as well as funding for groups like PBS and Special Olympics that are supported by a large swath of Americans. So Republicans have responded by attempting to distance themselves from the budget, fearful […]

Rev. William Barber appeared on MSNBC’s AM Joy and tackled the flip-flopping positioning of Donald Trump and Republicans in favor of bombing Syria for humanitarian goals. Barber is behind the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina that have been a bulwark in enabling progressive change. He expanded the program as part of the resistance, pushing […]

After a disastrous political day that saw FBI Director James Comey confirming an ongoing investigation into Trump campaign “coordination” with Russia and shooting down Trump’s lie about President Obama, Donald Trump took solace in a crowd of supporters at a “Make America Great Again” campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky. There was one major difference, however, […]

When Donald Trump appointed Betsy DeVos — a billionaire and major donor to his presidential campaign — to be his education secretary, alarm bells rang throughout the education community. DeVos is a well-known opponent of public schools, and her family has donated millions of dollars to organizations that fight against civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and […]

We now know for certain that there is a current and ongoing FBI investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. We also now know, as FBI Director James Comey publicly confirmed, that the FBI has been investigating links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election since July — four months before […]

Donald Trump launched an unprecedented attack on former acting Attorney General Sally Yates ahead of her testimony to the Senate panel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. He was apparently unnerved by advance word that Yates will discuss the Trump administration’s refusal to heed warnings about how former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn could be […]