Home

New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty Friday to a mortgage fraud indictment secured by a Donald Trump loyalist after the president demanded James and other political opponents be charged.

The scale, speed and lack of transparency we’re seeing from President Donald Trump’s determination to build a 90,000-square foot ballroom makes it by far the most absurd — and potentially unethical — “renovation” project any president has undertaken.

Donald Trump had already decided to pave the Rose Garden. And add gold finishes to just about everything in the Oval Office. And install a needlessly large flagpole. And rip apart the Lincoln bedroom’s bathroom. But when the president approved the destruction of the East Wing’s facade, despite earlier promises that his ballroom project wouldn’t […]

Among the federal employees sent home during the ongoing government shutdown was the entire team at the Bureau of Labor Statistics that produces inflation estimates. Those estimates, in turn, drive the annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security, which sets the benefit rates for the coming year.

An authoritarian regime rarely kicks down the door all at once. It begins with a speech, then chips away at our democracy and rights until one day there are tanks in the streets, state-run media, and writers, activists and leaders behind bars.

An authoritarian regime rarely kicks down the door all at once. It begins with a speech, then chips away at our democracy and rights until one day there are tanks in the streets, state-run media, and writers, activists and leaders behind bars.

Before any of the officials said a word in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, the visual alone was striking: The public saw the president standing alongside the nation’s three most powerful federal law enforcement officials — the attorney general, the deputy attorney general and the director of the FBI — ostensibly to announce something […]

On Monday, shortly after Donald Trump gave a speech at the Israeli parliament, he traveled to Egypt to sign a memorandum related to the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire deal. While in Egypt, the president sat down with the country’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, and said something rather strange.

Rachel Maddow reports that the number of events planned for the “No Kings” day of protest on Saturday, October 18 already exceeds the previous “No Kings” protests that drew millions of Americans to voice their opposition to Donald Trump’s overreach and attacks on democracy in the United States. Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of […]

We are in the middle of Donald Trump’s government shutdown, because Donald Trump and Republicans care more about giving tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations than protecting your health care. Despite controlling the White House and both houses of Congress, Republicans have refused to compromise on their extreme and out-of-touch policies that are going […]