It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.

We've spent plenty of time talking about Nigel Farage, but evidently the rot goes much deeper.

From most admirable to least

Last night, at exactly 9:25—9 to 5—the top of the Empire State Building in New York City lit up pink.

The D in Bessent’s “D-Day” stands for Dud

To every voter, every day

There's no "middle" between neofascist corporatism and democracy

The useful narcissism of the new class of oligarchs

“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.

On Friday an Iranian attack on a U.S.

Trying to punish Brazil for adopting a better payment system

Yesterday President Donald J.

His biggest lie wasn’t about elections

An exchange yesterday between Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Jay Clayton, Trump’s nominee to oversee the U.S.

Exactly five years ago, on July 15, 2021, I wrote:

But I'm not talking about bombs and drones

In August 1870 a U.S.

Why? Because the real energy crunch is coming from the Russia/Ukraine war

When we need rational leadership most

Today began with yet another demonstration of the fact that the U.S.

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot

The United States is currently in the grip of an outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea and has sickened more than 3,000 people across the U.S.

Last night the Department of Justice subpoenaed reporters from the New York Times over a story the newspaper published on Wednesday.

Presumably afraid of investigations into his actions, President Donald J.

As we lose jobs and the middle class contracts, where will consumer demand come from?

Today marks the anniversary of a dramatic reworking of the U.S.

Immigration enforcement was flying under the radar until Tuesday

Not from where you may think

After the U.S.

Who’s afraid of the big bad Trump?

In Ankara, Türkiye, for a two-day summit of the countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), President Donald J.

ICE has managed to stay mostly below the radar screen since leaving Minneapolis and changing leadership.

This dreary little man wants to use a byelection to exclude himself from scrutiny. It might not go as well as he thinks.

Last week, U.S.

Soccer, NATO, and Mount Rushmore

Going into the weekend during which Americans celebrated the 250th anniversary of the day on which the Second Continental Congress accepted the Declaration of Independence, President Donald J.

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On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are ...

Today President Donald J.

On January 20, 2025, the day he took the oath of office a second time, President Donald J.

The putative presidential candidate is even more skilled at demagoguery

A wide range of Democratic voices are in the process of shaping new political language to move their party, and the country, forward.

It protects everyone's right to worship- or not- as they choose

Why aren't we talking more about DOGE?

Wednesday night, after President Donald J.

My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...

An outsider is on the verge of power. And things which were once unthinkable now feel possible.

They're making him even more erratic and dangerous

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, when Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who led the 7th Cavalry, lost his entire command to Lakota warriors afte...