GOP Governor Sam Brownback Denies Medicaid to Kansas Residents
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) rejected legislation on Thursday that would have used funding from the Affordable Care Act to...
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The Paul Ryan Approach: Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Losing Your Health Insurance
See what you make of this, and it comes in two parts: First, the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report...
Trumpcare to Take Away Healthcare from Millions
The White House doesn’t want the American people to call the Republican Obamacare replacement that is going to take health...
Draft-Dodger Trump Does Photo-Op On Aircraft Carrier
He has been attempting to sound more presidential. Now he wants to look like a commander-in-chief, too. Donald Trump donned...
Trump’s Florida Vacations Have Cost Taxpayers Almost As Much In A Month As Obama Spent In A Year
President Trump’s weekend vacations to his private club in Florida have cost taxpayers almost as much in a month ($11.3...
Big Oil Gets Its Man As EPA Chief
The Senate narrowly confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency chief on Friday, despite Democrats’ calls to delay the...
Olbermann: Trump’s reckless handling of intelligence would have gotten Hillary ‘impeached before sunrise’
Reaching back to the not-so-distant past, when conservatives had a meltdown over Hillary Clinton’s private email servers, commentator Keith Olbermann...
Trump Shows His Contempt for the Working Class by Nominating Puzder
If Donald Trump truly cared about working Americans, as he claimed during his campaign, he never would have nominated a...
Sen. Chris Murphy Seeks Trump Tax Returns to Explain ‘Bizarre Positioning’ on Russia
Looking for an “alternative explanation” for Trump’s “bizarre positioning” on Russia, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said this morning on MSNBC...
Klan Sympathizer Jeff Sessions’ Record On Voting Rights Back In Spotlight After Senate Rules Scuffle
A procedural scuffle between Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) brought back to the forefront accusations...
Bernie Sanders Exposes Trump As A Fraud Who Lied To Voters
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump a fraud, and he pointed out the ways that Trump has lied to the...
Trump Proposes an Energy Plan That Puts Americans Last
The new boss waited about 1.2 nanoseconds before announcing his America First Energy Plan. Environmental groups weighed in a heartbeat...
Repealing Obamacare Could Kill 43,000 People Per Year
Republicans seem hellbent on repealing The Affordable Care Act, and a new study shows that doing so without a comparable...
Trump’s First Presidential Act Is To Raise Mortgage Rates On Struggling Homeowners
One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president was to hurt struggling homeowners by signing an executive order that reversed...
Savage Republicans Vote To Strip Healthcare From 6 Vulnerable Groups
It is amazing that in America, the richest nation in mankind’s history, there are laws against cruelty to animals but...
Klan Sympathizer Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Nominee for Attorney General, Confronted at Confirmation Hearing
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and his supporters sought on Tuesday to convince the American public that he won’t...
Trump’s Approval Rating of 37% is a Historic Low Days Before Inauguration
America is not giving Donald Trump a warm welcome to the White House as a new poll found that Trump’s...
ExxonMobil Sends Its Boss Tillerson Off To D.C. With $180M Golden Parachute to Hustle for Big Oil
ExxonMobil has agreed to provide an investment package worth about $180 million to its outgoing chief executive, Rex Tillerson, letting...
Climate deniers, conspiracists and one-percenters: Trump’s cabinet of characters
Barack Obama’s original cabinet was chockablock with historic firsts. The first African American attorney general. The first Nobel laureate upon...
Israel’s Welfare Dependency Grows: Largest Recipient of U.S. Foreign Aid
Israel now receives $3.2 billion in direct foreign assistance, courtesy of American taxpayers each year. This is about one-fifth of...
Just in Time for Christmas, Commander-in-Hack Donald Trump Calls for More Nukes
Donald Trump apparently has been hitting the pipe again. On December 22, he tweeted: “The United States must greatly strengthen...
Pope Francis Says Money Dominates Politics
Pope Francis had strong words for world leaders’ priorities, including United States president-elect Donald Trump last week. During a speech...
Bernie Sanders: Donald Trump ‘Has Endangered’ U.S. Jobs With Carrier Deal
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is not impressed by President-elect Donald Trump’s deal with Carrier Corp. to keep roughly...
Presidential Election Hacked? Green Party Raises $2 Million to Find Out
Citing the dangers of hacked voting machines, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said on Wednesday that she intends to...
Klan Terrorist David Duke Hails Trump’s “Great” Selection Of Jeff Sessions For Attorney General
David Duke — a white nationalist radio host, noted anti-Semite, failed 2016 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, and former Ku...
Progressives Bernie Sanders And Elizabeth Warren Win Senate Leadership Posts
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will both have seats at the Senate Democratic leadership...
Trump Refills Swamp With More Lobbyists
In the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, he pledged to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. by, among...
The Fuhrer Donald Trump Appoints White Nationalist Steve Bannon to Chief Strategist
Steve Bannon, the Breitbart News Network executive chairman known for having white nationalist views ― and who has himself been accused...
Two Days After Election, Trump Is Proving His Entire Campaign Was A Massive Con
Less than two days after Donald Trump stunned the world and defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, the new...
Losing the Popular Vote, Trump Ekes Out Enough Electoral Votes to Claim Presidency: Street Protests Follow
NEW YORK — Protesters dissatisfied by Donald Trump’s stunning victory took to the streets on Wednesday in several cities. In...
An Anti-Environmentalist Trump Presidency Would Likely Mean 3.4 Billion Tons More Carbon Emissions
A new analysis of policies promised by US Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump by Lux Research has shown...
Stormtrooper GOP Senator Threatens Hillary Clinton
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) joked during private remarks about putting a bullseye on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, CNN reported...
To Keep Drug Prices High Big Pharma Spends Over a Hundred Million Dollars to Defeat California Ballot Measure
There is a fiercely fought and extremely expensive political battle raging in California over the passage of Proposition 61, an...
Another Donald Trump Con: Donald Poses As ‘A Blue-Collar Kinda Guy’
President Obama debunked the myth of Donald Trump as a blue collar populist while rallying voters in Ohio for Hillary...
Donald Trump Claims His Billionaire “Star” Status Allows Him To Get Away With Molestation
WASHINGTON ― A New York Times editorial says the issue with Trump’s lewd comments isn’t the lewdness. It’s that Trump...
Giuliani Attempts to ‘Put Lipstick on a Pig’ by Defending Trump’s Tax Dodging
Rudy Giuliani went on ABC’s This Week and added to the woes of the Trump campaign with a series of...
Political Thug Chris Christie Knew About Bridge Lane Closings as They Happened, Prosecutors Say
NEWARK — Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey knew that three of his top officials were involved in a plan...
Republican Candidate Donald Trump Bought A 6-Foot-Tall Portrait Of Himself With Charity Money
In 2007, Donald Trump spent $20,000 that belonged to his charity — the Donald J. Trump Foundation — to buy...
Donald Trump’s Energy Proposals Cater to Fossil Fuel Billionaires at the Expense of Humanity
Donald Trump told the Detroit Economic Conference this week that he will propose “a complete rethinking of our energy policy.” What...
Conspiracy Kooks Breitbart and Donald Trump Funded By Right-Wing Hedge Fund Billionaire Robert Mercer
RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Before becoming Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway ran a Super PAC she ran one of the...
Trump Admits That He Will Lose The Election If He Releases His Tax Returns
Donald Trump admitted in a new interview that if he releases his tax returns, he will lose the election… Read...
The Koch Brothers Are Meddling In Your State Elections
The Koch Brothers might not be throwing their money behind Donald Trump, but they are certainly still spending a lot...
Trump’s trickle-down ticket: Donald Trump’s VP pick signals a commitment to slashing taxes for millionaires and cutting services for everyone else.
It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and...
George Will: Trump Won’t Release Tax Returns ‘Deeply Involved With Russian Oligarchs’
After the DNC hacked emails made its way to Wikileaks there have been many security experts who have said it...
The Billionaire Koch Bros’ Fingerprints Were All Over the GOP Convention
In the primaries – Donald Trump ran as a “really really rich” candidate who wasn’t beholden to America’s billionaire class....
Maddow: Trump’s Speech Could Be ‘Gateway Drug’ for KKK Becoming Mainstream in GOP
After her MSNBC colleagues determined that Donald Trump’s convention speech Thursday night was a message derived from talk radio to...
