America was—and still is—the biggest winner in the current era of globalization
Taken from interviews with residents of America’s poorest city, the Pulitzer-winning playwright’s Sweat has new resonance in the era of Trump and Sanders
President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans opened their national convention on Monday by painting a dire portrait of America if Democrat Joe Biden wins the White House in November, arguing he will usher in an era of radical socialism and chaos.
The “VERY successful businessman” only paid income tax twice between 1985 and 1994—and lost more money than “nearly any other individual American taxpayer.”
In a remarkable echo of the Watergate era, the DNC has filed a lawsuit against the Donald Trump campaign, members of Trump's inner circle, Russia, Wikileaks, and others over the hack of e-mails and other data by Russia during the 2016 campaign.
Pussy Riot's "Make America Great Again." YouTube screenshot/wearepussyriot Pussy Riot's Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova hasn't stopped fighting Putin's autocratic rule, using art as activism - Tolokonnikova spent 22 months in a Siberian prison camp for a 2012 performance - She talks democracy, political engagement, and the US-Russia connection Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova is one brave soul. Much of the world cowers at the mention of Vladimir Putin these days, especially after Russia's brazen
Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels. But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.
From the Women’s March to #MeToo, Not Done: Women Remaking America recalls some of the loudest inflection points and tensions of the women’s movement since Trump’s election
Republican complaints about the "liberal media" go back at least to Goldwater — and made the Trump era possible
The photograph of a two-year-old Honduran girl is featured on the July 2 cover
New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat wrote a piece slamming Trump-era Republicans as authoritarians and comparing them with autocratic regimes.
It's Friday, which in the Donald Trump era usually means that either a major bombshell about his Russia scandal will hit the newswires, or that a key member of the Trump administration will resign in
Recent White House assurances about U.S. efforts to combat Russian cyber-attacks suddenly look a whole lot worse.
Donald Trump's IQ, at 156, is comparable to that of the smartest U.S. presidents.
A new poll finds that one in five Americans has attended at least one protest or demonstration since January 2016.
While President Donald Trump continues to make noise about the election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is quietly using the final days of Trump's...
America is inching closer to a possibility it has never seen before: the indictment and trial of a former president.
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Donald Trump is a fascist. He comes right out and says it. Even his friends admit it. He's also a whiny loser
"It's fun to have a joke sometimes in a very serious situation," says trickster Jason Charter.
On job creation, Donald Trump's accomplishments are Obama-era successes, which the previous president didn't feel the need to brag about.
There's no telling what comes next.
The Supreme Court on Friday denied a request to block a Maine rule that requires certain health care employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Before they take office, elected officials swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution. As some Republicans in Congress continued to back President Donald Trump's ...
Donald Trump, vowing to 'make America great again,' commands his largest lead among Americans born before World War II. Some of them see progress, but many miss the patriotism and self-reliance of that era.
Only after a riot and an attempted coup has Congress finally ended the 2020 Presidential election.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs says the US economy is capable of another jobs boom — but they won't be on the factory floor, and they probably won't pay very well.
Whatever secret reservations Mitch McConnell and other traditional Republican leaders have about Trump’s character, governing style, and possible criminality, they openly rejoice in the payoff they have received from their alliance with him and his base: huge tax cuts for the wealthy, financial and environmental deregulation, the nominations of two conservative Supreme Court justices (so far) and a host of other conservative judicial appointments, and a significant reduction in government-sponsored health care (though not yet the total abolition of Obamacare they hope for). Like Hitler’s conservative allies, McConnell and the Republicans have prided themselves on the early returns on their investment in Trump.
The coming weeks will expose to all Americans the true genesis of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation -- and just how it is tied to some of the highest Obama-era officials.
(CNN)The iceberg wedge salads, dripping with blue cheese dressing, had just been served on the terrace of Mar-a-Lago Saturday when the call to President Donald Trump came in: North Korea had launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile, its first...
The CIA and the FBI backed claims that said Putin was the behind the Russian hackers' U.S. election interference. But Max Hastings says we've only scratched the surface of cyber warfare.
John Avlon writes that Marie Yovanovitch, Bill Taylor and George Kent are reminders that principled, non-partisan public service is part of what actually what makes America great.
There’s long been a clash between the tradition of white nationalism and that of interracial democracy, Foner says.
The new president is benefiting not just from bold proposals and actions but from his predecessor’s catastrophic record
The silence of congressional Republican leaders as President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud grow wilder and more venomous increasingly resembles the party’s deference to Sen. Joe McCarthy during the worst excesses of his anti-Communist crusade in the early 1950s.
The Benioffs join Bezos, Jobs, and others who’ve turned to publishing to cement their legacies. But a hands off approach isn’t what journalism needs right now. The Los Angeles Times was…
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Before they take office, elected officials swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution. As some Republicans in Congress continued to back President Donald Trump's ...
For years now in America, there has been a surreal sense of postponed consequences. A pandemic definitively closes that chapter of our lives.
In the ’90s, Gavin McInnes played punk rock and helped create Vice magazine. Five years ago, he founded a very different organization: the Proud Boys, the far-right group that came to personify the vilest tendencies of Trump’s America. ADAM LEITH GOLLNER interviews one of our era’s most troubling extremists
Former President Donald Trump’s efforts to block the release of potentially damning White House records hit a new snag in court – but his promise to appeal all but guarantees the final call will land with the Supreme Court.
The swipe comes after Trump spent the weekend compromising America’s security by turning an unexpected national security challenge into “dinner theater.”…
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