Hometown paper to McConnell: ‘Now would be a good time to choose to lead’
At a time when America really needs leadership, Mitch McConnell is nowhere to be found.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 08, 2019At a time when America really needs leadership, Mitch McConnell is nowhere to be found.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 08, 2019Senate Democrats are willing to put the needs of American families first, shining a spotlight on Mitch McConnell’s unconscionable behavior.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 08, 2019But Nancy Pelosi has a plan to call his bluff.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 07, 2019Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to reopen the government for the American people, but Mitch McConnell and Trump are standing in the way.
By Oliver Willis - January 04, 2019Mitch McConnell is enabling Trump’s government shutdown — and is being called out by his fellow senators for doing so.
By Oliver Willis - January 03, 2019Trump really wants to shut down the government, and while most Americans don’t want that, Mitch McConnell is happy to oblige.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 21, 2018Stay classy, Mitch.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 06, 2018Mitch McConnell blocked a bipartisan effort in the Senate to protect special counsel Robert Mueller, even as Trump ramps up his attempts to evade justice.
By Oliver Willis - November 15, 2018Votes are still being counted in Florida’s Senate race, but Republican Rick Scott doesn’t seem to think their votes actually matter.
By Oliver Willis - November 12, 2018It’s another dirty trick to pack the courts with right-wing hacks.
By Emily Crockett - October 18, 2018Health care is the most important issue for voters this year, but the GOP is threatening to gut it anyway.
By Eric Boehlert - October 18, 2018The Republican tax scam has completely failed, so now Mitch McConnell wants to gut America’s social safety net to foot the enormous bill.
By Oliver Willis - October 17, 2018The party infamous for encouraging political violence is now calling its opponents ‘toxic’ and ‘fringe.’
By Eric Boehlert - October 12, 2018Mitch McConnell apparently thinks a Trump ethics probe would be ‘presidential harassment.’
By Oliver Willis - October 10, 2018If Mitch McConnell was assaulted, where’s his police report and corroborating evidence?
By Kaili Joy Gray - October 08, 2018Mitch McConnell wants sexual assault survivors to stop telling their stories to Republicans who are eager to put an alleged sexual predator on the Supreme Court.
By Oliver Willis - October 03, 2018A new book reveals how Sen. Mitch McConnell sought to undermine the CIA as it tried to address Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election.
By Oliver Willis - October 02, 2018He’ll try anything to hold off the blue wave.
By Eric Boehlert - September 12, 2018Republican leaders are warning this year’s most vulnerable candidates to distance themselves from Trump, his enablers, and the culture of corruption that is tainting the whole party.
By Oliver Willis - August 24, 2018McConnell can’t get one-fifth of the GOP caucus to show up for his sham summer Senate session.
By Eric Boehlert - August 21, 2018Mitch McConnell demanded the Senate stay in session this August, but lots of Republicans aren’t showing up.
By Eric Boehlert - August 17, 2018Republicans made grand promises about their tax bill, but all evidence so far points out what most already knew: It’s just a scam to line the pockets of the already-wealthy.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 13, 2018Kentucky’s bourbon and whiskey are being targeted in Trump’s trade war, as the state’s senator, Mitch McConnell, stands by and says nothing.
By Eric Boehlert - June 28, 2018Republicans are desperate to rig the Supreme Court before the election, and they’re not being shy about admitting it.
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 27, 2018The Republican leader of the Senate invented the McConnell Rule to steal a Supreme Court seat, and now he plans to break it to seize another.
By Tommy Christopher - June 27, 2018Trump is ripping children away from their parents, and the leaders of the Republican Party couldn’t care less.
By Eric Boehlert - June 15, 2018Republicans are taking hit after hit from Trump’s trade war.
By Eric Boehlert - June 06, 2018Is keeping Democrats off the campaign trail the only way the GOP can win in November?
By Eric Boehlert - June 05, 2018Red states could pay a huge price for Trump’s bizarre tariff policy.
By Eric Boehlert - June 04, 2018Even Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell says the special counsel’s investigation should continue.
By Tommy Christopher - May 24, 2018