Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., questioned former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday about whether he had attended an NBA game in Atlanta in Feb. 2024, but seemingly confused two different basketball tea...

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

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…

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

Victory in the Grand Canyon State is Key to Regaining Pro-Equality Majorities in Congress

The U.S. government, media organizations, and political scholars often characterize the “War on Terror” as a clash of civilizations or a battle against radical Islam.

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

He believed due process separated America from the authoritarian governments his generation fought. That line is now being tested…

The bond market is warning that 45 years of Republican tax cuts and exploding debt may finally force ordinary Americans to pay for a party the wealthy already enjoyed...

Reflections from Dublin’s protest against Trump in Ireland

September’s book for Thom Hartmann’s Well-Read Troublemakers’ Book Club

America has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in money, credibility, and blood. We must remember the lies, and tell our children about them so that memory isn’t lost...

Economic desperation opened the door to both FDR and Hitler. Nearly a century later, America again faces competing visions of who should rule and whom government should serve…

A Quarter Century after 9/11

The mystery surrounding 660 million pounds of imported beef exposes a much larger story about money, deregulation, food safety, and who Trump’s billionaire-run government really serves...

For forty years America restrained concentrated wealth and built the largest middle class in history. Then billionaires rewrote the rules, bought political power, and began taking democracy apart…

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Fifty years after women escaped a system that put husbands and fathers in charge of their economic lives, Republicans are resurrecting the ideology that could put men back in control.

America’s defenses are being drained, Ukraine is being abandoned, and Russia and Iran are growing stronger. At what point does incompetence stop being an explanation?

Republican Victor Marx says his campaign is at ‘the center of God’s will.’ His opponents called him a ‘fraud.’

America has spent decades paying for earlier interventions in oil-rich nations. Trump is now risking another cycle of rebellion, bloodshed, and blowback...

The alleged crimes are piling up, the evidence is hiding in plain sight, and Trump’s Pentagon is betting that nobody in Washington will dare hold Whiskey Pete accountable…

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The U.S. Mint released the $1 Trump coin. His portrait is laughably ridiculous. And it’s here to stay.

AI billionaires are swallowing America’s resources, polluting communities, and trying to stick working families with the bill…

Whitney Houston turned Dolly Parton’s song into a global phenomenon. What Dolly did with some of those millions helps explain why Black America embraced the country legend.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Landor v. Louisiana is a perfect example of how conservatives strip rights from people by abstracting them away. The court’s conservative majority didn’t really want to...

Covid is surging, measles is killing again, and the man running America’s health system spent years attacking the very vaccines that could save lives…

The final chapters from Who Stole The American Dream?

What began in the shadows with Nixon and Reagan is now happening openly as Trump targets the machinery of the 2026 election.

A Black war hero's family denounced President Donald Trump's reported move to rename the USS Doris Miller.On Thursday, CNN revealed that the Navy is taking steps to rename the USS Doris Miller, an air...

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