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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Donald Trump has never hidden his transactional nature. For him, loyalty, alliances, and policy positions often seem negotiable—if the deal is right. Now, as president again, he and his family have pl...

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...

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...

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...

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...