Trump loves guys like Congressman Greg Gianforte and Vladimir Putin and Recep Erdoğan and Mohammed bin Salam. He loves them because he thinks they’re “tough.” The problem is, Trump doesn’t know what the hell tough is.

No one thinks Thomas L. Friedman, the lead foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, has an easy job. I wouldn’t want it. Like his closely allied counterpart at the Washington Post, David Ignatius, Friedman stands astride the interlocked...

Banksy has admitted that one of his biggest pranks yet didn’t really go according to plan. The British street artist created an art world sensation by sending one of his paintings through a shredder hidden in a frame moments after it sold...

Is Mercury’s core liquid or solid, and why — on the smallest planet in our solar system — is it so big? What can the planet closest to the Sun tell us about how our solar system came into being? An unmanned European-Japanese...

A Republican ad in a Minnesota U.S. House race has drawn allegations of anti-Semitism for suggesting that Jewish billionaire George Soros “owns” the Democratic candidate. This article first appeared in Salon. The ad, titled “Owns,” attempts to...

The indictment on Friday of a Russian woman on charges of attempting to meddle in U.S. elections shows the need for “guardrails” on social media, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said. “It is critical for Congress to...

Hundreds of people in a caravan of migrants that crossed from Honduras into Guatemala staged a dramatic bid to breach the Mexican border on Friday, as local governments began preparing to disperse the convoy under pressure from Washington....

MSNBC analysts on Saturday morning discussed the tactics President Donald Trump uses to terrify his base into continuing to support him. Gabriela Domanzain, a former senior aide with Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, told host David...

Melissa Madara was not surprised to receive death threats on Friday as her Brooklyn witchcraft store prepared to host a public hexing of newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this weekend. The planned casting of an...

Republicans have been lying through their teeth.

Many political ads in this year’s U.S. elections pack an unusually harsh and personal punch – some with racial overtones. In Arkansas, a radio ad this week suggests white Democrats might start lynching black men. In New York,...

Appearing on CNN’s New Day on Saturday morning, the former Director of the Office of Government Ethics called upon Congress to investigate President Donald Trump’s financial links to the Saudi government financiers in light of his...

Despite President Donald Trump’s professed desire to become friends with Russia, the Kremlin is still working to interfere in American elections and undermine democracy, as a new indictment from the Justice Department of a woman allegedly...

Alaska Governor Bill Walker, a political independent, halted his re-election campaign on Friday and endorsed his Democratic challenger, ending a three-way contest in which neither had appeared capable of defeating the Republican front-runner....

Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Chances are, President Donald Trump will be long gone by the time his mentor takes a back-seat to the Russian government, according to former Russian propagandist who...