Discussion on Trump impeachment inquiry with Pat Buchanan, author and former adviser to presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and Eleanor Clift, columnist with The Daily Beast and a contributor to MSNBC.
We’re used to incendiary tweets from President Trump, but his retweet over the weekend of an ominous warning about a “Civil War-like fracture” if he were removed from office is of a whole new magnitude, and scary as hell. Will he ever willingly leave the White House? Trump’s retweet...
While the world was focused on impeachment, the GOP’s ongoing effort to stock the federal bench with conservative ideologues proceeded apace last week with Sarah Pitlyk, a nominee for the district court in the eastern part of Missouri, whose opposition to reproductive rights goes far beyond the standard fare...
Thanks to Congress, gun manufacturers are shielded against lawsuits, an extraordinary gift to a single industry and a tribute to the power that the National Rifle Association has over lawmakers.The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), passed in 2005 and signed into law by President George W....
Sanders says as president he would impose a moratorium on nuclear plants as part of his $16.3 trillion climate-change plan. But critics of Sanders say he is ignoring science, so I reached out to James Hansen, the climate scientist whose testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1988 about greenhouse...
In tonight’s Democratic debate, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are in the same lane, buoyed by progressive activists wanting to make the “big structural change” Warren touts, and by the grassroots revolution Sanders promises. But don’t expect them to collide. Famously, the two have a so-called non-aggression pact, which...
So we've made it through Labor Day weekend, and for Democrats that means the primary contest enters a new phase and it’s time to get serious about picking a winner. In any other presidential cycle, Democrats would have the luxury to go with their heart when they vote in...
When Barack Obama took office in January 2009, white supremacists were fragmented and without charismatic leaders. That quickly changed with the arrival of Richard Spencer, Matt Heimbach and Milo Yiannopoulos, a generation of new leaders who created and captured a following that capitalized on white unease over a black...
