For six long months, Jefferson Griffin and his Republican allies have attacked lawful North Carolina voters through baseless lawsuit after baseless lawsuit, in an attempt to steal a Supreme Court [...]
President Donald Trump said he could extend the deadline for a deal to spin off TikTok's U.S. assets because he has a "warm spot" in his heart for the social [...]
Former VA Lt. Governor Bill Bolling is a conservative Republican and Trump voter, yet unlike Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Earle-Sears, Jason Miyares, Rob Wittman, Jen Kiggans, Ben Cline, Morgan Griffith, John [...]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Red line defeat! See Trump’s 7-2 Supreme Court loss decoded in LEGAL SPECIAL (Weissman, Melber)18:37Now PlayingSCOTUS [...]
"Trump and his billionaire profiteers are trying to create a race to the bottom—on wages, on benefits, on dignity itself," the coalition said. "This May Day we are fighting back. [...]
South African centibillionaire Elon Musk may soon be replaced as CEO of Tesla after nearly 20 years, according to a new report.The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the electric [...]
As my colleague Emine Yücel reported yesterday, President Trump’s plan for a rescissions package — which many presidents have successfully used since the 1970s to send unspent funding back to [...]
I’ve been taking stock of the possible firebreaks against Trump’s illegal marauding. One is the Supreme Court, the ultimate guardian of the rule of law. The high court has belatedly [...]
If you open Google Earth and zoom in on the Gaza Strip, it may be difficult at first to detect anything amiss. But focus in on neighborhoods, blocks, or individual [...]
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it—well, two or three other times, at least: Democrats have found themselves in a content-creation war with the Trumpian right. And this pitched [...]
Janine Jackson interviewed the Institute for Policy Studies’ Khury Petersen-Smith about Yemen distortions for the April 18, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250418Petersen-Smith.mp3 PBS (3/15/25)Janine Jackson: [...]
Today, a U.S. District Court judge blocked key parts of Trump’s illegal executive order that attempts to suppress voters, upend voter registration systems and hand over sensitive information to DOGE, stop states [...]
Say goodbye to the pause put in place by the Biden administration on student debt collection. Student Loan Update: Trump Gives New Deadline for Garnishing Wages: The Department of Education [...]
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New York Mayor Eric Adams owes millions of dollars in legal fees and has no obvious means of paying it off, but he says that’s none of his constituents' business. The [...]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a meeting with El Salvador's Minister of National Defense Rene Merino Monroy at the Pentagon, last Wednesday.Nathan Howard/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the [...]
This is a two day old article. But with so much else going on I hadn’t seen it. If you haven’t really must read it. It’s one of growing number [...]
For the last two years, many Americans could file their taxes with a government-run software program, for free. For the last 15 years, all Americans have had their financial transactions [...]
After skipping out on paying taxes for a decade, Donald Trump wants to make it more expensive for over 30 million Americans to pay their taxes next year by eliminating [...]
During Donald Trump's presser with the El Salvador's president yesterday, he claimed Cody Balmer, the man who set fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence was "no fan of his." [...]
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Trump’s insane trade war has pushed a solid economy toward inflation and recession, roiled financial markets, and united other nations against the United States. Worse is yet to come in [...]
As an economist, I know that information is key to our free-market system. If a business makes a good product sold at a fair price, it makes a profit. If [...]
The Trump Administration has fulfilled Project 2025’s promise to shut down the Department of Homeland Security’s internal oversight offices, including its civil rights office. The entire staff of those offices [...]
Eric Bolling got fired from Fox News because of inappropriate texting to colleagues. Plenty of room for him, though, on Real America's Voice. Bolling told White House Deputy Press Secretary [...]
FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s Trump pin (L) and a classic Mao accessory (R). Please don’t squeeze the Chairman! Are today’s hip Republicans still wearing American Flag lapel pins? So passé. [...]
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With President Donald Trump waging war on the arts, via his control of the Kennedy Center and his ongoing attacks on museums nationwide, the power of artistic resistance has been [...]
Members of the US Marshals Service confer in South Abington Township, Pennsylvania, in 2018. Butch Comegys/The Times-Tribune via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter [...]
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We look now at how the crackdown on [...]
On Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expects Trump’s tariffs will raise inflation and lower growth. Powell suggested that the central bank won't move on interest rates. “We [...]
From our Budget Breakdown series highlighting problems in fiscal policy to inform the 2025 tax and budget debate. This week, Donald Trump unilaterally enacted a sweeping array of policies to [...]
Former federal prosecutors are up in arms over the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin, who is currently serving as interim U.S. attorney [...]
Two thoughts on today’s tariffs. I could get into the substance of the decision. But I think that goes without saying. Point one is that we should remember that Presidents [...]
Donald Trump is giving whitewashing a bad name. His executive order of last Thursday directed Vice President Vance, who’s a member of the Smithsonian’s board, and budget director Russell Vought [...]
When Republicans like the squatter currently occupying the White House try to cut popular public support and civil rights programs, they do so in cowardly fashion, like a bully who [...]
The second Trump era is something of an exercise in natural consequences. What happens if you put the most flamboyantly stupid goons in charge of everything? The results will neither [...]
The American people have had enough of Donald Trump and his unaffordable, dangerous agenda. As inflation persists and Americans overwhelmingly expect Trump’s reckless agenda to raise prices even higher, it’s [...]
Thursday, March 27, 2025 Today, DCCC Communications Director Courtney Rice sent the following statement in response to the White House pulling Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to the [...]
Along with raising alarm about a massive national security breach—and questions about the competence of top officials in the Trump administration who "inadvertently" added a journalist to a Signal group [...]
Josh Parsons, loser, left, and James Malone, winner (campaign photos)Wowzers, Democrats flipped a deep red seat in a special election for the Pennsylvania state Senate on Tuesday night, with East [...]
The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a Signal group chat about planning airstrikes in Yemen.This is [...]
If there is one lesson that centrist Democrats have taken from Donald Trump’s startlingly broad-based victory in November, it is that their party will never return to majority status unless [...]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Now PlayingTrump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires06:14UP NEXT'Chuck Schumer's gotta [...]
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to start the elimination of the Department of Education Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily [...]
President Donald Trump recently invoked a centuries-old law to justify the deportations of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum security mega-prison in El Salvador without due process. But one [...]
House Republicans can have $6,600 for supporting Elon Musk’s drive to impeach judges who place checks on President Trump’s lawless executive actions, as a treat. Musk has been championing talk [...]
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, home of fact-bending and scorn directed at liberals, has been doing some soul-searching lately. The Tuesday page had four pieces that could have run [...]
Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250314.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). This week on CounterSpin: In early February, when Rep. Maxwell Frost tweeted that he and Rep. Maxine Waters were [...]
This majority-deciding victory builds on the DLCC’s streak of overperformance in special elections in 2025 WASHINGTON— Last night, DLCC Spotlight Candidate and Rep.-elect David Gottfried joined MSNBC’s The Last Word [...]