One week into the Biden presidency, the Democratically controlled Senate is facing its first procedural hurdle.
Despite a raft of executive orders setting him apart from his predecessor, and despite Democrats now holding a narrow congressional majority,...
Only three presidents have been impeached in American history: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump in 2019.
After Wednesday's treasonous coup attempt at the Capitol for which Donald Trump is undeniably culpable, there...
Five months ago, Donald Trump tweeted the following:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1287877621380837378
He was responding to “left-wing violence,” “dangerous radical leftists,” and "radical ANTIFA" supposedly wreaking havoc in Portland, Ore. during Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests this summer over the...
Republicans had an opportunity to remove Donald Trump from office a year ago.
Yet, despite incontrovertible evidence of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress leading to Trump being the third president to be impeached, the...
Record turnout in this year's election is throwing Republicans into a tailspin.
They do not want democracy.
They want oligarchy.
But they know Americans outside the extremely wealthy do not.
So to maintain their wealthy donors' hegemony, they work...
Although the lamest of lame ducks, Donald Trump still possesses the enormous power we entrusted him with four years ago.
One of the most awesome (and monarchical) powers the Constitution entrusts to the president is the...
Donald Trump and his “elite strike force” have failed at overturning the Electoral College-certified election.
Every federal court to which Trump's lawyers have brought legal challenges intended to steal Joe Biden’s victory has backfired.
So that's it,...
$600.
Unless things change, that's all some of us will be getting from the 5,593-page $900 billion relief package Congress passed Monday night.
It is half what the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act delivered in April,...
12 million workers are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas if Republican lawmakers continue withholding funding for federal COVID-19 relief programs, threatening workers with evictions, student loan bills, and other expenses as the pandemic ramps up...
Your taxes are about to go up.
But it isn't because Joe Biden was elected president.
Three years ago, almost to the day, when the Republican party held in the majority in both congressional chambers, Donald Trump...
We see the headlines every year, particularly now, around the holidays.
Hunger.
In the richest country in world history--where Congress pays corporations to keep their workforces poor, where wealthy tax cheats benefit more from coronavirus pandemic relief...
In 1974, President Gerald Ford granted Richard Nixon a "full, free, and absolute pardon for all offenses against the United States."
Despite Ronald Reagan funding right-wing Nicaraguan paramilitary insurgents with arms sales to Iran and his...
12 million workers are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas if Republican lawmakers continue withholding funding for federal COVID-19 relief programs, according to a new Century Foundation report.
The study's authors, Andrew...
Republicans have perfected the rhetoric of blaming our economic woes on social safety nets, specifically Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka “food stamps.”
They have convinced large swaths of supporters...
Thirty-third president Harry Truman proclaimed:
"Given a choice between a Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, the voters will pick the Republican every time!"
As we celebrate and savor former Vice President Joe Biden's...
A global pandemic ripping through the United States is not deterring American voters.
More than 91 million have cast their ballots, putting the country on pace to produce the highest voter turnout since 1908.
But this doesn't...
There is no need for all the indicators to line up at once.
Looking back at the past four years, it doesn't take much to think of an example for each.
But in just the past days,...
In just the past year and a half, the Trump administration’s war on immigrants has perpetrated the following crimes against humanity:
Created a phony university to entice undocumented immigrants;
Suggested fortifying Trump’s racist border wall with a snake- or alligator-infested...
Earlier this month, acting Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf released his department’s annual assessment of violent threats to the nation.
If we listen to the rhetoric coming out of the White House, its...
One day before being released from Walter Reed Naval Hospital for treatment for COVID-19, Donald Trump stated in a video he "learned a lot about Covid,” adding:
"I learned it by really going to school. This...
