Last week, Donald Trump’s administration pulled off another of the routine stunts it uses to hijack the media narrative, whip up the right-wing base, and distract both journalists and pundits from more important news stories. O...

"Trump is only going where many of his party’s senior figures have been for a long time."

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were among the leaders who gathered at the Aisne- Marne Cemetery and Memorial near Paris over the weekend for a ceremony honoring the...

Whether we want to or not, for the sake of America, we must try to understand the Donald Trump phenomenon, as it has completely swept the nation and also fiercely divided it. What is most baffling about it all is Trump’s apparent political...

Throughout the 2016 campaign and into Donald Trump’s first weeks as president, there were numerous very serious D.C. media people who were fully prepared for Trump to pivot into behaving like an actual dignified president rather than an unhinged...

Tuesday’s election did not go well for Republicans, but it has been getting even worse for them since then as ballots continue to trickle in. In Florida’s Senate and gubernatorial races, Republicans are panicking at the prospect o...

Now that the midterm elections are over there will be some reassessments of President Donald Trump. But whatever the verdict on his appeal to supporters or as a campaigner, he remains a failure as the leader of our country. After he had...

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress love to demonize government handouts, which, in fact, their own supporters depend on and are increasingly financed by taxpayers in blue states. The federal program Temporary Assistance for Needy Famili...

As Americans turn with unusual fervor and focus to the November 6 midterm elections, President Trump and the GOP seek to stoke fear by raising a series of concerns about immigrants and potential immigrants to our shores. Thousands of troops are...

Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls,...

Efforts to pursue a complete count of the votes cast continue in south Florida, in spite of GOP panic.

Brian Kemp, who until this week was Georgia’s secretary of state, is stealing the gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams. Here’s how. This article was originally published at Salon We can begin with 92-year-old Christine Jordan, who blocked...

With the firing of Jeff Sessions, we can be sure that Donald Trump is gearing up to attempt to shut down the Mueller probe by any means necessary. By doing this, it appears Trump has rendered the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein powerless,...

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., may have been reelected on Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean his career didn’t take a major hit. This article was originally published at Salon Nunes managed to comfortably defeat Democratic challenger Andrew...

Since Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and through his first two years in office, the American news media has been in a state of shock. Their old rulebook has been shredded. Trump has no respect for the truth, democratic norms, the...