Politics

It stood to reason that Congress might, at some point, ask someone from the Trump administration to answer for the recent push to invade American cities with armed federal troops. On Tuesday, that person was Attorney General William Barr, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to answers questions about …

On Sunday morning, the president of the United States once again showed his racist leanings by retweeting a video of one of his supporters chanting “white power.” “Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is …

Desmond Meade pumped his fist in the air and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” blasted from the speakers. Many of the former felons — liberal and conservative, black and white, radical reformers and deplorables alike — who packed this Orlando hotel conference room mouthed the words along with him. “If you had …

President Trump, who frequently uses litigation as a cudgel to get his way, is now requiring attendees at his political rallies to sign a waiver promising not to sue him if they contract the coronavirus while there. As the second wave of COVID-19 cases looms, the president has announced he …

Both Fox News and CNN felt some of the protesters’ frustration as they gathered and marched across the country for a fourth straight night over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Late Friday night, Fox News reporter Leland Vittert was taunted with “Fuck Fox News” chants near the White …

In the midst of a pandemic that is killing black, indigenous, and Latino people disproportionately, we do indeed have larger things to be concerned about right now than Joe Biden and what he said to Charlamagne Tha God on The Breakfast Club. Still, since not every conversation needs to be …

Epidemiologists are asking the public to “flatten the curve” of coronavirus infections by observing “social distancing.” It’s unclear how long we’ll have to do that — particularly absent a vaccine — and that’s both a bummer and a drag on the economy, as people miss out on human connections and …

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is suspending her presidential run, ending a campaign that built a massive fundraising, organizing and media apparatus but was done in by a string of disastrous results in the primary’s early competitions. Warren informed staff Thursday she’s leaving the race. “I may not be …

In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by former senator Nina Turner. Currently the National co-chairwoman of the Bernie Sanders For President Campaign, Turner remembers her early day in politics and how those roots connect her to Sanders’ ideals. “To have the …

The Guardian headline reads: “DOJ Internal watchdog report clears FBI of illegal surveillance of Trump adviser.” If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a “clearing” of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was. Like …