Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was correcting the president’s biggest lies.

From Harding’s trickle-down promises to Hoover’s prosperity pitch to Reagan’s tax cut hustle to Trump’s factory announcements, Republicans have a long history of pushing scams before Election Day…

Everything is terrible in Trump’s America, but it’s important not to forget that it is also very stupid. It turns out that when you let a mush-brained despot like President Donald Trump back into the…

A cartoon by Drew Sheneman.

Because he fears he can’t prevail any other way

Not because they’ll help Republican candidates

A cartoon by Pedro Molina.

The White House now wants to embed itself in your phone with its official app.

Because he fears he can’t prevail any other way

Create the crisis, make working Americans suffer, reward the billionaires, blame Democrats for the wreckage, then campaign as the only people who can fix it.

Here comes the Supreme Court’s faithful conservatives, riding to President Donald Trump’s rescue. They’re eager to remind us all that democracy doesn’t matter, laws don’t matter, the balance of powers...

What separates Trump voters who consider themselves MAGA from Trump voters who do not?

The Founders failed to create a true Democracy. Let’s win, then demand one.

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Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.

Trump is attacking freedom of the press from every angle – and we need your voice to stop it. I just signed a Common Cause petition to Restore Public Media Funding. I hope that you will, too.

A cartoon by David Horsey.

Taxpayers are footing the bill for a Fox “News” ad glorifying the president, as lawmakers question whether federal law has been crossed…

A recording from Thom Hartmann's live video

Here’s what I’m hearing

According to multiple GI rights organizations, service members are inquiring in unprecedented numbers about seeking conscientious objector status.

New documents reveal that U.S Southern Command is investigating how soon the military action can take place.

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When Trump-aligned billionaires control the networks Americans trust for news, they don’t just own the cameras. They gain the power to decide what the entire country sees, hears, and never learns…

Trump spent his day kowtowing

A company that owns more than 300 Wendy’s restaurants filed for bankruptcy, citing rising beef costs.

Who needs healthcare anyway?

End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar are introducing legislation that would ban artificial superintelligence, pause development of advanced AI systems and create a new Department of Artificial Inte...

Democracy dies in the darkness

Who needs plentiful emergency exits, anyway?

In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.

A cartoon by Pedro Molina.

Americans pay extraordinary sums for a system that can still deny doctor-recommended care, while Canada’s Medicare fight shows another path…

The central issue isn’t which nation will dominate AI. It’s whether we will both maintain human control over it.

A cartoon by Clay Jones.

From a killer she once called an “ideal man” to a political movement built around radical self-interest, the roots of today’s assault on government run deeper and darker than most Americans realize.

Solidarity

Are we on the cusp of a political realignment against corporate power?

He will only get crazier, and at some point Republicans will cut their losses.

Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.

Why can’t Trump’s Supreme Court appointees figure out it’s their job to do his bidding?

Give Republicans Congress and Trump promises you $5,000. That extraordinary bargain raises a question America confronted nearly 90 years ago: how far can government power reach into the voting booth?

Democrats just got a new clip for an ad.

Andy Biggs’ Medicaid record shows he once tried to abolish AHCCCS, even for disabled and mentally ill Arizonans

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Volunteers canvassing for Republican midterm candidates are all seeing the same thing.

With 89 percent saying corruption is widespread, history shows what can follow when citizens stop believing their institutions will hold criminals and the powerful accountable…