Politics: Left

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel on Friday agreed to withdraw a subpoena he had issued in July against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after the State Department turned over more than 16,000 pages of documents the committee had sought, the panel ...

The new doc "Underplayed,4; premiering at TIFF, probes gender inequality in the EDM scene via interviews with trailblazing artists like Rezz, TOKiMONSTA, and Alison Wonderland....

The top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer of New York, said Friday that a Supreme Court vacancy...

In her many years on the bench, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's voice on the court never faded, with every one of her authored court opinions further solidifying her position as a tenacious dissenter and contemplative jurist....

Listen to some of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's most remarkable speeches over the years....

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87....

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin talks about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy on the court....

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, the court announced. She was 87....

Rachel Maddow tells the history of how Mitch McConnell decided not to allow President Barack Obama to fulfill his constitutional duty to name a Supreme Court justice to the seat vacated by Antonin Scalia, setting up a caustic showdown over replacing Ruth...

Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court reporter and analyst for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed the way U.S. law considers sex discrimination and the nature of equality that is now taken for granted, and how...

Senator Cory Booker talks with Rachel Maddow about whether Democrats can win a principled political fight with Republicans who have shifted to raw power grab tactics, and what that means for the future of the Supreme Court....

Voters got their first dose of a side-by-side between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden during separate town halls this week....

The Biden campaign announced its largest ad buy yet this week, lavishing some $65 million on broadcast, digital, and print in key battleground states, according to CNN . The announcement comes on the heels of the Biden camp bolstering its war chest with a...

Celebrated for her collegiality as well as her scathing dissents, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a fierce advocate whose tireless efforts changed the nation's views on gender and equality....

"She stood for America. She stood for our values."...

President Barack Obama mourned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and suggested that Senate Republicans must wait to fill the seat until after inauguration day....

Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about the pioneering legal work Ruth Bader Ginsburg did before she became a Supreme Court Justice, and what it meant to have a justice with a civil rights...

From the U.S. Supreme Court to Saturday Night Live, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was more than a Justice - she was a rock star....

The two celebrities learned of the news as it broke on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night....

Throughout all of the late-breaking notorious fame, the Justice knew that she was just one link in the chain....

The US military announced Friday that it is deploying armored vehicles and other military assets to Syria to protect US troops fighting ISIS amid tensions with Russia as President Donald Trump told a White House news conference that...

The US Postal Service on Friday agreed to terminate its controversial election mailer in Colorado, according to Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who had sued Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and other USPS officials over the pre-election mailer that she sa...

Ginsburg's life was devoted to her fight against all forms of discrimination, writes Andrea Mitchell...

This will be a final power grab by a minority party that knows its grip on power is slackening....

Trevor Morrison, former clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, talks with Rachel Maddow about her relationship with her clerks and the role model she became to millions around the world....

A close ally of President Donald Trump who was serving as a top official in the Department of Health and Human Services repeatedly sent complaints about how the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was handling a media request to the agency's...

Obviously things like face coverings and social distance and adherence to local health guidelines will be the norm, but who's going to go skiing—and how?...

The Trump administration argued on Friday against a challenge to its 2020 census plans by saying the Constitution requires a count but does not say it must be accurate....

Everything we can't stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture....

"I think the governor's doing enough,...

The latest British reality-TV import, now streaming on HBO Max, sees potters square off against one another. Sadly, it lacks the charm and fun of its baking brethren....

Norman Vincent Peale believed that all things were possible through Jesus Christ. Donald J. Trump believes all things are possible through Donald J. Trump....

Emmy-nominated screenwriter Michael Zam loved dancing as a kid and young adult. Cooped up during the pandemic, he rediscovered the groove—and joy of letting go to disco at home....

Documents show that the NRA's new anti-Biden ad emerged from the same web of firms involved in potentially illegal coordination in 2016 races....

Motorcycle enthusiasts have descended on Lake of the Ozarks for the annual Bikefest, potentially turning the Missouri tourist destination into a COVID-19 hotspot....

The former "Boy Meets World" actress turned adult star writes about how she and director Kayden Kross overcame the obstacles to create an innovative porn movie amid the pandemic....

What happens when you combine a resurgent BLM movement, deadly far-right counter-protesters, and a desperate president fanning the flames? We're about to find out....

Attorney General William Barr's provocative critique of career employees who work for him and of politics surrounding Justice Department investigations is his clearest acknowledgment of a worsening divide between President Donald Trump's attorney ...

There's no sugarcoating it: Republicans are going to make the court even more conservative. But Americans can limit the damage in November....

The Republican quest to protect the Senate majority has become a family affair....

Former Senior Advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett, talks about her memories of Justice Ginsburg and looks back on Sen. McConnell's treatment of Merrick Garland's nomination....

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death is a grave, sorrowful and ill-timed calamity in the escalating crisis of American democracy, the crisis......

Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week A 7-minute excerpt from a 2017 interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: YouTube Video TOP COMMENTS QUOTATION "Over the course of a lifetime in her pioneering work in behalf of...

The White House moved quickly Thursday to try to discredit Olivia Troye, the former aide to Vice President Mike Pence, after she released a video charging that President Donald Trump failed to protect the public from coronavirus and that he only cared abo...

Fmr. Sen. Claire McCaskill looks ahead to the upcoming Senate fight over replacing Justice Ginsburg....

Dahlia Lithwick, legal correspondent and senior editor at Slate, talks with Rachel Maddow about the coming power struggle for the Supreme Court, whether Democratic voters will make the Supreme Court a higher political priority, and what another Trump...

Dahlia Lithwick, legal correspondent and senior editor at Slate, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Ruth Bader Ginsburg recognized herself on a continuum in the fight for equal rights and used her status as an icon to engage with upcoming generations in...

The Senate leader, who blocked former president Barack Obama's nominee for much of 2016, is pressing ahead within weeks of the Nov. 3 election....