Desperate to shore up its once-indomitable ratings, Fox News is reportedly moving Sean Hannity to the 9 p.m. hour, while syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham gets set to debut a new show at 10 pm. The move sets up cable news ratings showdown between Hannity and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Her program airs at 9 p.m., […]

Peggy Noonan was recently hired by NBC/MSNBC to be a political analyst, and she quickly showed what a poor decision that was by the network, as she launched a strange defense of Confederate stained-glass portraits in the Washington National Cathedral. Church leadership announced it would be removing the portraits of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall […]

In sharp commentary, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos connected Donald Trump’s decision to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio to his praise of white supremacists. As Ramos put it succinctly, with his actions over recent weeks, “Trump is making racism something normal.” Trump chose to announce the pardon of Arpaio, who was convicted of racially profiling Latinos, right […]

Holding a campaign rally after less than eight months of occupying the presidency could seem bewildering, but not when the person at the podium is Donald Trump. Despite finagling his way into the highest office in the land, Trump has never been able — or willing — to let go of the adulation and unconditional […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan is still in search of his spine, and apparently his conscience, as well. Monday morning, Ryan issued a rather belated statement on the white supremacist riot a week earlier in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which he condemned the hateful ideology of the neo-Nazis and declared that “there is no moral relativism” when […]

MSNBC anchors with decades of experience in financial journalism ripped into a Trump campaign official as he repeatedly distorted economic information and desperately tried to make Trump look good. Brad Thomas is on the “Advisory Board” for Trump’s re-election campaign and has written a pro-Trump book called “The Trump Factor.” One reviewer noted, “This book […]

MSNBC host Joy Reid called out Speaker Paul Ryan for his pathological obsession with tax cuts while Donald Trump continues to drag the United States into moral quicksand by supporting white supremacy. On “Morning Joe,” the panel discussed Ryan’s public statements and tweets, in which he has incessantly been hammering on the Republican Party’s pro-tax […]

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally let loose all the ugliness and hatred he had obviously been keeping bottled up since the start of the white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Virginia. Despite the statement he was forced to read from a teleprompter only the day before, Trump revealed his true feelings and loyalty in a shocking […]

Even as some Republicans are condemning Donald Trump’s deplorable refusal to condemn white supremacists, they are still giving cover to Trump and the white supremacists in his administration — which even former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said is a real and significant problem. Last summer, during the Republican National Convention, Trump’s chief strategist, Steve […]

“Nazis are bad people” should not be a difficult statement with which to agree. And the idea that those opposing neo-Nazis have a moral high ground should not be a controversial one. But apparently, this administration is struggling to accept either of those notions. Donald Trump took his time issuing an actual statement — as […]

Donald Trump continued his dangerous and unhinged rhetoric Friday morning, as he did his best to gin up a confrontation with North Korea’s equally unstable leader, Kim Jong Un: Military solutions are now fully in place,locked and loaded,should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) […]

MSNBC anchor Katy Tur posed the question many Americans have been asking about the GOP: “Whose side are they going to be on” if Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller? Trump already fired the FBI director in charge of investigating his ties to Russia. And he has repeatedly attempted to undermine Mueller’s legitimacy, threatened to fire him, and […]

The head of Donald Trump’s so-called “Election Integrity Commission,” designed to use the federal government to enforce voter suppression schemes across the country, denied Hillary Clinton’s popular vote victory against Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a strong advocate for voter suppression measures, told NBC’s Katy Tur that “we’ll […]

The White House’s Russian collusion cover stories are quickly unraveling, which means Republicans and their media supporters keep trying to play the “both sides” game by claiming Democrats were guilty of the similar dirty campaign deed last year. But CNN’s Poppy Harlow put the brakes on that Monday morning when Republican Rep. Scott Taylor brought […]

The constant stream of lies coming from Donald Trump’s White House and his inner circle has reached a new level of absurdity when even Fox News doesn’t know what to say. Fox News is not exactly a strong critic of the Trump campaign’s apparent collusion with Russia. It is the official safe space for White […]

Members of Donald Trump’s commission on “voter integrity” don’t like being reminded that they’re investigating allegations of voter fraud even though election experts have spent years confirming the United States does not have a voter fraud problem. That could be one reason why secretaries of state across the country, including dozen of Republican office holders, […]

Donald Trump will meet with Vladimir Putin Friday, and neither he nor anyone in his administration will say if Trump will address Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Since Trump has largely avoided the media, his joint appearance with the president of Poland offered the rare opportunity for American journalists to ask him important […]

White House correspondent Brian Karem said what a lot of the country has been thinking when he called out the Trump administration’s “fake news” lies during a press briefing. After deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders complained about “the constant barrage of fake news” supposedly directed at Donald Trump, and opined that “the media can’t be […]

MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have alleged that Donald Trump tried to blackmail them. According to Scarborough, Trump told them he would have a negative story published about them in the National Enquirer tabloid unless they apologized for criticizing him on air. Scarborough explained the threat during Friday morning’s episode of “Morning Joe”: We got […]

Longtime loyal Republican Nicolle Wallace has some extremely harsh words for Donald Trump and her entire party. Now an anchor on MSNBC, Wallace rose to fame as a communications chief for President George W. Bush and then as senior adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008. She basically made Sarah Palin — and her own […]

In his latest press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer claimed that Donald Trump was “joking” when he urged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails. Video of Trump’s comments from July 27, 2016, clearly shows that he was not joking. Trump said at the time, “I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, […]

CNN reporter MJ Lee just exposed the sham that is the Senate Republican health care bill. It’s the latest evidence of the sheer dishonesty and callousness of the GOP’s effort, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to pass a health care bill out of public view that would strip coverage from millions in exchange for […]

CNN reporter Jim Acosta had harsh words for the Trump administration’s decision to hold yet another off-camera press briefing. It has been a week since the White House press operation, led by press secretary Sean Spicer, has spoken on air about the multiple controversies, scandals, and legislative issues swirling around the Trump presidency. The White […]

Senator Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor and she knows how to question a witness. For the second time in a row, however, her persistence was met with outright resistance from her male Republican colleagues. When they didn’t like her questioning of James Comey, they interrupted her. When they didn’t like her questioning of Jeff […]

One of the key challenges facing Democrats is the reluctance, by some on the left, to centering issues of discrimination and bias. That challenge is evident on a nearly weekly basis on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, whose host continually insists that Democrats lose elections because of over-sensitivity to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Fox News’ newest round of opinion polling shows bad news for Trump from top to bottom. Trump’s overall approval rating is down 5 percent from Fox’s last poll, to an anemic 41 percent approval. By contrast, 51 percent of voters in the poll disapprove of Trump’s performance in office. At a similar point in his […]

While many corporate media figures bear great responsibility for the ascension of Donald Trump, his nascent presidency has also caused some journalists to up their game. One of them has been NBC News’ Katy Tur, who doggedly covered Trump on the campaign trail, despite being directly targeted for harassment by Trump, and has been consistently […]

Befitting his reality TV resume, Donald Trump is certainly the star of the ever-deepening drama his scandal-ridden young administration has brought to D.C. But as Rachel Maddow concisely and devastatingly laid out on her show, Vice President Mike Pence deserves just as much time in the media spotlight. Pence’s reputation has perhaps benefitted from comparison […]