Recent White House assurances about U.S. efforts to combat Russian cyber-attacks suddenly look a whole lot worse.
The idea that Donald Trump has "rebuilt America's standing in the world" in his first 100 days is hilariously wrong.
Watching Donald Trump try to president is a little like watching a toddler play next to a wood chipper. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, but it can’t be good. The worst part is, there are dozens of adults standing around who are supposed...
Defense officials described reaction to the photograph as exaggerated.
Donald Trump is threatening to punish (?) California—home to the nation’s largest population of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and undocumented immigrants overall—by pulling his Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) mass...
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden (D-WA) and House Representative Richard Neal (D-MA) have introduced legislation, along with 45 other members, that would force the president to disclose his foreign business interests and ties before being allowed to take...
The government shutdown that just ended has deepened Americans' discontent with the state of the nation--and they place the blame primarily on President Donald Trump, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday showed.
Donald Trump, who has failed to successfully negotiate any bill through Congress, now believes that he could have negotiated away the Civil War. Lawrence O'Donnell speaks with Indira Lakshmanan and Charlie Sykes.
President Donald Trump hasn't had a lot of good weeks since becoming president last January. But this one looks like one of the worst.
North Korea slammed what it called the United States' "gangster-like mindset" in denuclearization talks just hours after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the high-level negotiations as "productive" and insisted progress was made.
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made it clear today to an audience of young, military graduates what he thinks of the man who he had to pretend to respect for the last year and a half: Speaking to soon-to-be graduates of the Virginia...
When the Secretary of Education inadvertently celebrates legal segregation, there's a real problem.
Donald Trump vowed to hire "the best people," but have you seen his outside legal team?
Rachel Maddow shares some of the first excerpts from the forthcoming book "A Warning" by an anonymous author described as “a senior official in the Trump administration,” describing the challenge of briefing Donald Trump in pictures and sound bites, and the staff panic of trying to prevent damage from Trump's ill-considered decisions.
If you're ever looking for a list of Donald Trump's "accomplishments," all you have to do is ask him.
Offered a chance to engage in a real debate over health care, Donald Trump lied his way through a new op-ed.
On Sunday's edition of "Meet the Press," Mick Mulvaney took a swing at defending the indefensible.
I don’t know about you, but I want to turn away from the incessant flow of sewage from Donald Trump’s tweeter hole. Hard to tell how much of it is a distraction from the ever-tightening pincers of the Mueller investigation with its grab-bag of plea...
As Trump suggests everything he dislikes is "illegal," it's hard not to wonder what he and his politicized Justice Department intend to do with the claims.
We're talking about presidential ignorance that's compounded by a lack of self-awareness, which by any fair measure, is a rather brutal combination.
She appears to have been confused about the arrests of two Iraqi men in Bowling Green, Ky., in 2013 for plotting to ship money and weapons for terrorism in Iraq.
The president touts his election as a pivot from failure to success, citing the stock market surge and tax cuts.
The current presidential administration’s capacity for corruption seems limitless. The big-ticket items, like tax breaks for the wealthy and the epic destruction of environmental protections and public lands, are the most glaring and far-reaching. But...
Nearly 3,000 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. President Donald Trump denied this reality as a hurricane barrels toward the Carolinas.
Throughout most of written history, capitalization was used for aesthetic sentence structure rather than emphasis.
Among the latest “bad hombres” targeted by immigration officials within the past few days: two Texas doctors with an appointment book packed with patients waiting for medical care. Two prominent Houston doctors facing removal by immigration...
Donald Trump grew up in New York City during an era when hating on Puerto Ricans was a sport. “West Side Story,” told a sanitized part of that tale. It made no difference that there are Puerto Ricans of all shades and colors of skin — from ivory to...
The photo above of aid workers in Puerto Rico was taken months ago, in early October. Today, thousands of American citizens sleep in homes without a roof, they occupy housing without power, and they wait for the President to recognize their worth and...
His doctor once said he'd be the healthiest president in history, but the president doesn't exercise, citing the belief that the people - like batteries - have a finite amount of energy.
On Saturday morning, before most people were awake, President Donald Trump was tweeting about how very, incredibly, stupendously smart he is.
The president-elect tweeted Monday that the international body « is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. »
The president’s comment marks the first time he has weighed in on the bureau’s failure to follow up on a Jan. 5 tip about the 19-year-old charged with shooting and killing 17 people in Parkland, Fla.
The new policy prohibits any commercial dealings with Cuba’s military and somewhat limits U.S. citizens’ travel to the island, but leaves in place much of the old policy.
As the Tillerson Senate hearings continue on, Sen. Tim Kaine used a good deal of his time to grill Secretary of State wannabe and Russian oil-lover Rex Tillerson on his time at ExxonMobil and the company’s continued financial backing of junk climate...
If we're going to be lectured on the merits of civility, perhaps Orrin Hatch and Marco Rubio should stay on the sidelines.
The Secretary of Education could probably use a bit of a brush up on the origin of HBCUs.
As it turns out, we do know some of the contents of that Trump — Putin phone call. Though … it might be better if we didn’t. During the conversation, Vladimir Putin brought up the idea of extending the New START treaty. And Donald Trump responded...
Parts of the federal government shut down at midnight after Congress and the White House failed to reach a deal Friday night to avert the shuttering of several departments.
Donald Trump’s Education Department has swung into action on student debt … to make things worse for students and better for predatory lenders. The Education Department is rolling back an Obama-...
Legislative reforms may be necessary, but Donald Trump may not be the best messenger for this message.
Several myths, debunked.
Despite manifest incompetence, supporting policies that would harm his supporters and obvious constant lying, Trump enjoys support from a core group that remains loyal. The best explanation for this phenomenon can be found in work anthropologists have...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested Sunday President Donald Trump now better understands the stakes in Syria and has agreed to reevaluate, for now, his plans to immediately withdraw all US troops from the country.
Trump said the below to Reuters. "I loved my previous life, I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump said in an interview with Reuters. "I actually, this is more work than my previous life. I thought it would be easier." ...
A Trump cabinet secretary was amazed there wasn't "a single hint of a protestor anywhere" during their visit to Saudi Arabia.
Warning: Readers who already looked at portions of Donald Trump’s The Economist interview may have reached or exceeded their gibberish exposure level for the day. If that’s the case … oh, read this anyway. It’s too late for all of us. What follows...
The president promised to drain the swamp. Instead he’s presided over the emptying out of his senior staff.
