MSNBC’s unabashed liberal primetime lineup produced a stunning ratings success for the network in 2017, boosting its viewership by nearly 50 percent compared to the 2016 campaign cycle. MSNBC finishes the year with its largest daily audience since the network debuted in 1996. The primetime home of Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O’Donnell posted […]

Donald Trump has spent nearly one-third of his entire time in the presidency doing whatever he can to translate his position into profits for himself. The campaign to make money out of his position is unprecedented in American history and marks a shift to a crass set of behaviors that debase the office. Throughout 2017, […]

When the voters of Alabama chose Democratic former federal prosecutor Doug Jones for Jeff Sessions’ vacant Senate seat, GOP candidate Roy Moore vowed that would not be the end of it. Moore — a twice-fired state supreme court justice and accused child molester — filed a complaint alleging that there were too many black voters […]

Donald Trump is trying to install into the federal judiciary one of the key foot soldiers in the conservative campaign to suppress and intimidate black voters. But the decision to jam through the nomination of Thomas Farr to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina is facing resistance from civil rights advocates who […]

Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) shtick is already getting old. Having volunteered to be Donald Trump’s designated attack dog against special counsel Robert Mueller, the previously little-known congressman is being rewarded with face time on Air Force One. But his empty threats against Mueller and the FBI are sounding increasingly hollow, since Gaetz never produces any […]

Donald Trump is livetweeting Fox News Channel from a golf course, days after proclaiming that he would be “back to work” right after the Christmas holiday. Trump cleared his presidential schedule for the third day in a row and, per the White House pool report, “The president’s motorcade pulled into Trump International Golf Club at […]

Donald Trump put a golf course in the heart of New York City, slapped his name on it, and thought it would be a guaranteed money maker. Instead, just two years after the opening of Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx, people are staying away in droves. Through mid-September, the number of […]

In its first year, Donald Trump’s White House has obliterated the modern day pace for top aides jumping ship and leaving the administration. The running for the exits unfolds while Trump struggles to post any kind of legislative accomplishments in 2017. In fact, this year, Trump also established a record for legislative impotence. To date, […]

Some people simply do not know when to give up. One such person is rejected Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. Faced with accusations that he stalked and molested teenage girls, as well as his views that women and Muslims should be ineligible for office and that America has not been “great” since the abolition of […]

Donald Trump’s Republican allies in Congress have been promoting a smear campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. The latest manifestation of this attempt to obstruct an investigation has come from Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL), who called for a “purge” of the FBI and Department of […]

With the revelation that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is providing information to special counsel Robert Mueller, Donald Trump’s attorneys are scrambling to eliminate any legal jeopardy that could pose. One of their key strategies, according to a report from the Washington Post, is to call Flynn a liar: Trump’s legal team has seized […]

Donald Trump has visited golf clubs 83 times since taking office. And despite proclaiming this week that it was “back to work” for him, he has spent every day since Christmas so far on the golf course with no public events on his schedule. And given that he repeatedly attacked President Barack Obama for hitting the links […]

The editors at Vanity Fair magazine offered the latest proof that a lot of journalists didn’t learn any lessons from the relentlessly condescending and sexist coverage of Hillary Clinton’s historic presidential candidacy. But their effort to mock and talk down to the former first lady, secretary of state, and first woman nominated by a major […]

As Donald Trump tweets furiously about the ongoing Russia probe, special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators are not just carrying on — they’re stepping it up. According to Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff, Mueller’s team recently started questioning Republican National Committee staffers who worked on the Trump campaign’s data operation, which was managed by […]

In a baffling denial of reality, Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch seemed to take a recent local editorial that took him to task in no uncertain terms as a compliment. But an editor from the paper wants to make it crystal clear for Hatch exactly what they think of him in the Trump era. When […]

Even those with the darkest fears about Donald Trump’s presidency when it began 11 months ago probably couldn’t have predicted that he and his party would end the year by doing everything in their powers to smear and vilify law enforcement officials because they had the audacity to investigate possible Trump corruption. Not to mention the […]

One of the most dramatic political about-faces in recent years has been how white, conservative evangelical voters have come to view politics. Once the group that most most adamantly demanded moral purity from politicians, poll after poll now shows white evangelicals are suddenly OK with politicians who commit “immoral” acts in their personal lives. Such voters […]

Donald Trump’s streak of receiving less support than his Democratic rivals continues in the latest edition of Gallup’s survey of the most admired man and woman in the United States. But even worse for Trump, he has broken a record — he is the first first-year president not to be named most admired. Trump comes […]

Being viewed as a chronic liar who supports child molesters and doesn’t support the values of most voters is not only destroying Donald Trump’s standing as president, but it’s also causing voters to flee the Republican Party this year. And they’re doing it at a record pace. According to a CNN report, “Only 38% of […]

Flush from ramming through a trillion-dollar Christmas giveaway to wealthy Americans and corporations at the expense of working families, Republicans now seem to think they have a blank check to go after the social safety net. House Speaker Paul Ryan has said that in order to fix the massive hole he just blew in the […]

Three of America’s largest cities filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense on Tuesday for failing to report service members with criminal convictions to the national background check system for gun licensing and sales. The lawsuit filed by New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia says the the military’s “clearly broken system” allowed Devin […]

According to North Carolina Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger, whether or not the government giving you money counts as “socialism” depends upon how much money you already have. Massive tax breaks for wealthy people and corporations are all about “jobs” and investing in the economy, despite the fact that corporations have made it blatantly clear they […]

Republican efforts to sabotage the ongoing Russia probe have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, with GOP lawmakers calling for purges at the FBI, slinging baseless accusations against special counsel Robert Mueller, and even running secret investigations aimed at exposing unspecified “corruption and conspiracy” within the FBI and Department of Justice. These efforts, which have […]

Donald Trump loves to blame everybody around him for making mistakes that make him look stupid or foolish, even when the person who made the mistake is Trump himself. The Associated Press notes that Trump partially blamed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Republican Party’s humiliating loss of a Senate seat in ruby-red Alabama. But […]

Donald Trump spent most of 2017 blatantly embracing white supremacy and racism, so a statement hailing Kwanzaa appears hollow, at best. In the statement noting the “weeklong celebration of African American heritage and culture,” the official Trump statement — certainly not written in his voice — tells Americans to “celebrate during this joyous time the […]

With a barren display case of accomplishments this year, Donald Trump has turned to his supposed victory in the imaginary war on Christmas and touts it as perhaps his greatest cultural accomplishment from the Oval Office. Perhaps it makes sense that a guy who skipped the Vietnam War with a sore foot would consider his […]

A nursing home can abuse an elderly resident to the point of death and not be subject to a fine, thanks to the Trump administration. Reacting to the demands of lobbyists, the Trump administration has struck down several regulations that have governed the nursing home industry. The New York Times reports that this now means […]

There are no good hiding places for the GOP. That’s the message a flood of looming Democratic candidates are sending to Republicans as the GOP braces for the 2018 election season, especially after the amazing flip of the Alabama Senate seat earlier this month. Democrats are not only targeting vulnerable Republicans in the House who […]

Under Donald Trump, the agencies of the U.S. government, which are funded by the taxpayers to the tunes of billions of dollars per year, are keeping their activities a closely guarded secret.   Not only is “the swamp” not being drained, but it is growing more powerful. Politico reports that Trump Cabinet officials are refusing […]

No American president in the last century has worked less than Donald Trump. And none has worked harder trying to disguise that fact that the current part-time POTUS. Bragging on Monday from his Florida golf resort that it would be “back to work” on Tuesday for him, Trump instead spent the morning livetweeting Fox News […]