Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here’s how we let it happen.

It took three ER visits before a hospital admitted pregnant teen Nevaeh Crain, one of at least two Texas women to die under the state’s abortion ban.

The Justice Department seeks to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, which requires U.S. immigration officials to hold migrant children in facilities that are safe and sanitary, among other prot...

Survivors of Dr. Richard Strauss say Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan known about the sexual abuse the student-athletes experienced, according to HBO’s new documentary Surviving Ohio State.

Law enforcement cleared protesters lingering in downtown Los Angeles after the mayor's curfew in the area came into effect for a second night.

In their apparent eagerness to save money and do right by taxpayers, perhaps Kansas Republican leaders could try passing laws that don’t trample on the rights of their constituents. That’s my only response to lawsuits filed throughout May that highlight the downright sloppy lawmaking that has be...

Republicans in the Senate are attempting to quietly replace Obamacare, according to a report from the Washington Post. “It is very much like a backdoor repeal and replace,” Matt Salo, former executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, told the Post. “They’ve been too cute b...

How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.

Can we put aside for the moment Trump's corruption, ignorance, incompetence, arrogance, racism, stupidity, criminality, greed and buffoonery, and just deal with the fact that he's a pig? You know what...

Current and former Meta employees fear the new automation push comes at the cost of allowing AI to make tricky determinations about how Meta's apps could lead to real world harm.

Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.

Bangladesh prosecutors accuse former PM Sheikh Hasina of orchestrating deadly crackdown on protests, trial underway.

As Trump’s anger at Harvard goes off the rails amid a big legal setback, a writer who tracks MAGA argues that Trump is waging a kind of psychological war on the American people.

In an attempt to defend Donald Trump's war on academia –– particularly Ivy League colleges –– Vice President J.D. Vance stepped in it when he claimed that scientific innovation doesn't really require the participation of foreign students, and that American scientists would be happy to work under ...

The State Department is reportedly creating an office for "remigration": a far-right policy that calls for what has been described as "soft-style ethnic cleansing."

On first glance, Dr. Vinay Prasad’s medical credentials sound impressive. But look closer and you’ll find a narcissistic attention-seeker peddling misinformation, whose views will cost lives.

The president’s proposal is his administration’s latest broadside against the Ivy League institution.

The head of a U.S.-backed foundation said it could not uphold humanitarian principles amidst war.

The FDA’s new framework for COVID-19 vaccines breaks from established procedure for how the government establishes vaccine guidelines.

Avian influenza is no longer just an animal health issue, with rising mammal cases and severe ecosystem, trade, and food security impacts as outbreaks become more widespread and impact a broader range of species, a new report shows.

In her order, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the president may not initiate large-scale executive branch reorganization without approval from Congress.

At the center of the sweeping bill is trillions in tax cuts, which Republicans aim to partially offset through changes to safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP.

As Trump scales back FEMA, Mississippi’s federal disaster assistance request is pending months after 18 tornadoes ripped through the state.

After three years of negotiations, the legally binding pact was adopted by the World Health Assembly in Geneva. WHO member countries welcomed its passing with applause.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow took to her eponymous show on Monday night to poke fun at Donald Trump's family over a project they have overseas that is now embroiled in scandal, as a key document in the deal was forged.In opening her show, Maddow discussed large-scale protests in Serbia sparked by a deadly ...

Nearly three-quarters of investments spurred on by the IRA have flowed to states that voted for Trump. Once Republicans decide how thoroughly to decimate Biden’s trademark achievement, we’ll see how…