Donald Trump likes to call himself a tough dealmaker. But right now, his foreign policy looks less like strategy and more like a geopolitical train wreck -- because he’s effectively helping fund both ...

You almost have to admire the consistency. When there’s a choice between helping America and helping Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump somehow always manages to land on the side that benefits Moscow. The l...

Minnesota is staring straight at something Americans are not supposed to tolerate: federal force being used as a political bargaining chip. According to Newsweek and People, Attorney General Pam Bondi...

I wrote recently that Democrats need to “Turn the Press on Its Head” – stop letting the Sunday talking heads set the narrative and start making the news before the networks do. It’s advice Olbermann m...

I wrote recently that Democrats need to “Turn the Press on Its Head” – stop letting the Sunday talking heads set the narrative and start making the news before the networks do. It’s advice Olbermann m...

Axios looked at Trump’s Greenland fiasco (www.axios.com/...) — the bullying, the imperial cosplay, the diplomatic arson — and decided the “big winner” was… Trump. Of course they did. Because Axios has...

There are plenty of ways for a U.S. president to pursue peace. Presidents host summits, appoint envoys, negotiate ceasefires, support treaties, and build coalitions through the State Department and Am...

It is now 34 days since the Trump Administration was supposed to release the full Epstein files. Instead, we’ve gotten partial drops, selective disclosures, and a lot of bureaucratic fog. Meanwhile, m...

Donald Trump’s Greenland obsession is being treated like a gag, another goofy headline to chuckle at before we move on to the next eruption in the circus tent. Stop laughing. This isn’t harmless eccen...

Donald Trump is doing it again: Greenland. The same fixation, the same arrogant entitlement, the same contempt for allies, only now upgraded from absurdity to outright menace. Because this time, accor...

The Justice Department is already weaponized. We’ve watched it happen. We’ve lived it. Trump’s DOJ, run by Pam Bondi, has become a machine that goes after Trump’s enemies and looks away from Trump’s f...

Watching Lindsey Graham fawn over Donald Trump on Air Force One yesterday felt like a bad reality show where one contestant is desperate not to get voted off the island. Graham smiled, nodded, and gaz...

I grew up in the Midwest in a medium-sized city in the 1960s and 1970s, one of eight children. For most of my childhood, we were a one-income household. That didn’t mean money was abundant. When you h...

Democrats are likely to take back the House—and possibly the Senate—in 2026 on one simple promise: things cost too much. Health insurance premiums are rising again. Rent is eating paychecks alive. Gro...

Donald Trump is a master of distraction. He throws sand in our eyes, changes the subject, invents enemies, and keeps the public locked in a daily state of reactive outrage. That has been his political...

Sen. Tom Cotton’s appearance on Meet the Press this weekend revealed a disturbing new standard for the use of lethal force. Defending the U.S. strike that killed two men clinging to the wreckage of a ...

A Strategy for the Bosses The newly released 2025 National Security Strategy (NS), far from being a sober blueprint for safeguarding American interests, reads like a corporate memo: “What can the worl...

There are moments in American history when the actions of a few reveal the moral stakes for the entire nation. We are in one of those moments now. The story that Heather Cox Richardson has outlined ov...

When a presidential administration abruptly stops releasing the most important economic indicators — GDP, inflation, jobs, consumer spending — Americans must ask a blunt question: What are they trying...

Ever since the pandemic, Americans have been asking: Why won’t prices go back down? As inflation slows, many expect the cost of groceries, fuel, and services to drop with it. But the truth is this: we...

Headlines across major outlets announced this week that Donald Trump had signed an executive order reducing tariffs on consumer staples like coffee, fruit, beef, and other agricultural imports. The fr...

The Republican façade is cracking — and fast. After years of swaggering certainty about “repealing Obamacare” and proudly tethering themselves to Donald Trump, the ground has shifted under their feet....

Once upon a time, Meet the Press was the temple of American political journalism — the place where truth met power and the weak in argument went to be humbled. It was where Russert pressed, Brokaw cha...

Glasgow, Kentucky, just lost its elder care center because of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill’ as outlined in this Daily Kos article: www.dailykos.com/…. Seventy-six percent of the county voted for...

I travel a lot for work. Between airports, hotel rooms, and rental cars, I’ve learned that keeping my phone, laptop, and headset charged is a daily puzzle of tangled cables. So, a couple months ago, I...

I travel a lot for work. Between airports, hotel rooms, and rental cars, I’ve learned that keeping my phone, laptop, and headset charged is a daily puzzle of tangled cables. So, a couple months ago, I...

Over the past nine months, Americans have been living through what many call the boiling frog effect. One outrageous act follows another—an insult here, a threat there, an abuse of power that once wou...

Utah governor Spencer Cox built his reputation as a moderate Republican. He received initial praise as one who urged Americans to lower the political temperature. On Sunday, that reputation cracked. I...

For those trying to keep track of how our democracy is being reshaped in real time, one of the best weekly guides is the Main Justice podcast. Its hosts walk through the decisions coming out of Washin...

Several Daily Kos writers have been sounding the alarm this over the past couple weeks: Russia is on the verge of economic collapse, and the Western world—if it acts smartly—has a rare chance to end b...

On Friday, August 15, 2025, President Donald Trump will meet—solo—with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss a ceasefire in Ukraine. What’s alarming is that the proposed deal may demand Ukra...

It started with a morning run. I was on a recent work trip to the Lansing, Michigan area, staying at a hotel nestled in a tidy suburban office park—the kind that was booming a couple decades ago, with...

When Michelle Obama reminded the nation in 2016 that “when they go low, we go high,” it felt like moral clarity. But eight years—and the worst gerrymandering run in modern memory—later, that high road...

By any moral standard, famine should be a moment for selflessness. For bold diplomacy. For leadership. But for Donald Trump, it’s yet another excuse to focus on himself. Standing in Scotland, far remo...

Let me get this straight. As cries to finally release the Epstein files reach a national fever pitch—with even some MAGA hardliners demanding accountability—Donald Trump and his merry band of chaos ag...

When Donald Trump tapped Matt Gaetz for Attorney General earlier this year, many scratched their heads. Gaetz — a scandal-plagued former Congressman — had little in the way of legal credentials and wa...

Intro: Imagine Rodney Dangerfield and Andrew Dice Clay meeting in a smoky Atlantic City lounge in the 1970s. Rodney’s muttering “I don’t get no respect,” while Dice is chain-smoking and delivering rau...

In 2024, Donald Trump didn’t just win an election—he hijacked the national conversation. While Democrats were still drafting talking points, Trump’s army of podcasters, meme lords, sports personalitie...

Imagine President Biden standing frozen on a stage, unable to read the room while the world’s cameras roll. Imagine him dozing off during a major industry summit, or telling a wildly inaccurate story ...

This week, Donald Trump made a curious public statement regarding the explosive Epstein files: he thinks Attorney General Pam Bondi should “release what’s credible.” At first glance, that might sound ...

In the wake of catastrophic flash floods in Central Texas this July, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s version of events has diverged sharply from the facts on the ground. On NBC’s Meet the Pr...

For weeks, Charlie Kirk has been one of the loudest voices in MAGA world accusing the Biden administration of covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s secrets. Kirk went full scorched-earth mode on the stage at ...

Peeling Back the Onion of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric: How One Post Reveals the Crumbling Logic of the MAGA Right A meme has been making the rounds lately on social media — the kind of thing that tries to...

Today on Meet the Press, Kristi Noem claimed that deploying agencies like the Coast Guard or Border Patrol was a brand-new innovation—a deliberate pivot away from how the government operated in the pa...

Sorry all, this just in — I had to edit to this article. While listening to a podcast this morning, I found out that Kristie Neom is a more despicable character than I originally thought. It turns out...

In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s emails and the word “Benghazi” were used like blunt instruments — repeated ad nauseam until they drowned out reason. By 2020, the same machine turned the “Hunter Biden lapto...

In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s emails and the word “Benghazi” were used like blunt instruments — repeated ad nauseam until they drowned out reason. By 2020, the same machine turned the “Hunter Biden lapto...

On July 7, a dramatic—but relatively peaceful—“raid” by ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and the National Guard in Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park provided chilling insight into the current administrat...

In 2009, CNBC’s Rick Santelli launched into a televised tirade over President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan and a $75 billion program to help distressed homeowners — policies designed to pull the...

I never thought I’d write these words. I’ve been watching Meet the Press since the mid-1970s. Back when Bill Monroe hosted the show with the kind of journalistic rigor that made you sit up and listen....