This article first appeared at Propublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.She desperately wanted to [...]
In his campaign for president, Trump promised to protect Social Security and Medicare. On paper, Social Security, which has its own revenue sources via payroll taxes and trust funds, is [...]
The point is not that there are zero examples of leftist protesters getting violent—as the Times notes, a handful of leftists are getting prosecuted for just that. Rather, it’s that [...]
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 [...]
In his latest piece for the Monthly, legal scholar Rick Kahlenberg wrote about the College Board’s shameful termination of “Landscape,” a college recruiting tool designed to identify promising students from low-income communities, regardless [...]
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 following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on this morning’s announcement that Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano will also serve as CEO of the [...]
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 [...]
Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ One feature of MAGA authoritarian planning is its ineptitude. Think back to January 6: yes, it was a coup attempt — [...]
President Trump’s decision to keep national parks open during the government shutdown may seem like an attempt to avoid blame for frustrating U.S. travelers. But conservation groups and park workers [...]
Well, guess what? It turns out that the latter project spans Washington, Oregon, and Montana, a state that voted pretty overwhelmingly for Trump. Montana’s Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, has hailed [...]
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 [...]
Years of uncertainty around a possible TikTok ban in the United States may finally be coming to an end.The Trump administration is reportedly very close to finalizing a deal with [...]
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 [...]
In the past 24 hours, we’ve been treated to a combination of first-term and second-term Trump. On Monday, the president agreed to a meeting with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries [...]
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, [...]
The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted disturbing and questionably legal calls for a crackdown on the left from President Trump and his allies. In [...]
When former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten “the most dangerous person in the world” in November 2022, the absurd comment led [...]
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 [...]
With about three weeks remaining in the current fiscal year, senators are scrambling to find a way to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2026.A short-term continuing resolution (CR) [...]
“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 [...]
RICHMOND, Va. — Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Transportation withdrew $39,265,000 for the City of Norfolk to turn the Fairwinds Landing marine terminal into an [...]
While Donald Trump was making everybody wonder if he was half dead or all dead or kinda dead or about to become dead, and if they should make reservations at [...]
Fox News has scrambled to find a way to blame rate hikes on renewable energy, recently focusing on New Jersey after wholesale electric bills in the state rose by 20% [...]
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 article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. On July 7, the Justice Department sent a harshly written letter threatening to sue the staunchly Republican state [...]
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. The Ringer’s Press Box podcast regularly features something they call the “Media [...]
Studying history is becoming a lost art, and that is precisely how the Trump Administration wants it. The study of history forces us to confront the successes and failures of [...]
The case will move forward in a lower court.The Florida Supreme Court will not decide the Pulitzer Prize Board’s legal wrangle with President Donald Trump, declining to hear arguments the [...]
NEW POLL: An overwhelming majority of Indiana voters oppose Republicans’ power grabs ICYMI: The DLCC held a strategy call with Democratic leaders from red states, including Indiana, facing the GOP’s [...]
Trump is fond of using the d-word, and he did it again while taking questions about his military takeover of Washington, DC, which is yet another authoritarian move of this [...]