Donald Trump's idea of putting migrants into a ring to fight for Americans’ entertainment is, among other things, new. By Steve Benen A couple of weeks ago, Donald Trump told a long and rambling ...

American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials ...

Late yesterday in Miami, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made it official, launching his 2016 presidential campaign with a not-so-subtle message: he's this cycle's new, fresh face. We apologize, this video ...

Two weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats went to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers on "active threats" against U.S. elections ahead of the 2020 cycle. Two days ago, FBI Director ...

Rachel Maddow shares video of Southern Baptist Convention president Ronnie Floyd railing against same-sex marriage at the group's convention in Columbus, Ohio, vowing to defy the Supreme Court should ...

Jay Sekulow has long been a familiar name for those who understand the religious right movement, but the far-right attorney has a new public profile thanks to his latest position. Sekulow, who was the ...

About a decade ago, Donald Trump stressed one specific point as a way of differentiating himself from his adopted political party. “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican, ...

After Christine Blasey Ford came forward publicly with a sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, the obvious move would've been for the FBI to re-open its background check of the Supreme ...

Within hours of Donald Trump and his White House team unveiling “The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again” two weeks ago, problems emerged. The Washington Post reported, for example, that ...

Rachel Maddow shares her love for a new app that inserts some of Trump’s most vivid rhetoric into whatever you’re reading about him online.July 9, 2015 ...

For congressional Democrats, no proposal is more important than the For the People Act, a sweeping proposal to bolster our democracy and protect voting rights. Party leaders gave the legislation a ...

It’s not exactly a secret that Democrats had a rough election season, but the party fared surprisingly well in North Carolina. While the GOP ticket won the Tar Heel State by around 3 points, Democrats ...