The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]

The DLCC invested six figures and is targeting 12 Spotlight candidates to protect the Democratic majority in the New Jersey Assembly WASHINGTON — The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) has [...]

As Donald Trump’s government shutdown approaches the one-month mark, Trump continues to throw Americans under the bus while giving a helping hand to Argentina — despite his claim that “nothing [...]

Judge Paula Xinis had reached her limit. She invited the lawyers of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to seek contempt of court sanctions against the Trump Administration. She’d “gotten nothing” from the [...]

A new CNBC survey makes clear that voters will overwhelmingly hold responsible Donald Trump and the vacationing House Republicans for the economic pain and harm caused by their government shutdown. The same [...]

See below for video and transcribed comments by Sen. Mark Warner from his weekly press availability, held earlier today. Bolding added by me for emphasis of [...]

FACT: U.S. public disapproves of Trump tariffs by about 63% to 35%. THE NUMBERS: Trump administration tariffs on goods from – Brazil      50% Venezuela      15% WHAT THEY MEAN:  [...]

Either disappointed about the Nobel or made an oopsie in his diap-diap, hard to tell.It is so very, very, very fucked up that on the day the Nobel Peace Prize [...]

Americans across the country from Washington to Los Angeles have made it clear that they reject the Trump administration’s notion of “law and order,” with grand jurors refusing to return [...]

LARRY KUDLOW (FOX BUSINESS HOST): Just think of it this way. You have something like 750-800,000 jobs that are called "nonessential." All right? I've been through this a bunch of [...]

The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]

 This Herblock cartoon (Washington Post, 3/29/50) is the first recorded use of the word “McCarthyism.”The political cartoon is of vast importance to the history of the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s [...]

New economic data shows consumer confidence plummeted more than expected to the lowest level since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” in April, as fears of recession rose to the highest level [...]

In his second term, President Trump has rejected the long-held tradition of regulatory independence by firing or attempting to fire officials at agencies charged with setting monetary policy, ensuring the [...]

Janelle Bynum is bringing her constituents’ voices with her back to Washington. After crisscrossing the fifth district for a series of town halls, Bynum knows what’s on Oregonians’ minds: costs are too [...]

It was not a good week to be an election fraudster. It started out when Kenneth Chesebro, the former Trump attorney who masterminded the fake elector scheme in 2020, added [...]

On Thursday, Donald Trump announced that he would be keeping his campaign promise of lowering pharmaceutical prices by … imposing a 100 percent tariff on all branded and patented pharmaceuticals [...]

In honor of Friendship Month and his stupendous speech at the UN, wherein he raved, bloviated and browbeat world leaders that their countries are "going to hell" but he's "really [...]

World Liberty is notably at the center of a scandal, as The New York Times revealed last week. In May, the firm secured a $2 billion investment from an Emirati [...]

After repeatedly promising that Social Security is “100% safe,” Trump administration officials are once again saying the quiet part out loud: They’re coming after America’s seniors. First, Treasury Secretary Scott [...]

While most of the attention this week was caught up with Donald Trump’s fascist attacks on freedom of speech, Donald Trump’s fascist mass deportation agenda continued unabated, with a new [...]

A legal theme of President Donald Trump’s second term is judges not being able to trust his administration’s statements in court. This theme has been especially pronounced in immigration-related cases, [...]

Whether the troops have actually made the city better is unclear. Crime is down, homeless encampments have been cleared, and hundreds of people accused of being in the country illegally [...]

A Fox News panel agreed that President Donald Trump likely signed a risque birthday letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Sunday, Fox News host Howard Kurtz noted that Trump [...]

In a special session of the Missouri state Legislature this week, Republicans crammed through a new electoral map in hopes of adding one more Republican seat to the US House [...]

During the last election, President Trump made “No Tax on Tips” the centerpiece of what he claimed would be “pro-working class” tax reform. Congress moved to fulfill that promise when it [...]

Fox News remains uninterested in informing its viewers about new details regarding the close relationship President Donald Trump once shared with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted child sex offender who allegedly trafficked [...]

“This morning, the Trump administration was notified by the United States military that Israel was attacking Hamas, which very unfortunately, was located in a section of Doha, the capital of [...]

 Janine Jackson interviewed Green America’s Cathy Cowan Becker about insurance and climate disasters for the August 29, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250829Becker.mp3  Janine Jackson: The [...]

Two new polls today signal Americans deeply disapprove of Trump’s handling of inflation and the rising cost of living Today on Meet the Press, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent repeatedly denied [...]

The political story of the 2020s is half-written—two wildly unorthodox Trump Administrations bookending a single Biden term, all three breaking in significant ways from the bipartisan economic consensus of the [...]

Despite electricity prices rising twice as fast as inflation this year, Rob Bresnahan voted to raise energy bills on hardworking Americans yesterday. House Republicans pushed through an extreme funding bill that slashes $87.3 [...]

Senator Susan Collins has been plying her trade in Washington for nearly three decades now. One of her biggest tricks is advancing unpopular, even disastrous Republican legislation just so she [...]