Politics: Left

The Biden administration is expected to announce a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing this week, a senior administration official told NB...

An episode chock-full of emotional violence may have ended with real tragedy....

Mommy's wedding has everyone feeling a little dysfunctional. Shiv wants to "bank some embryos" with Tom, Roman's obsessing over Gerri's boyfriend, and Kendall is... oh, no....

Turns out the HBO show has been dropping hints all season....

"Mrs. Doubtfire" has been reimagined as a Broadway musical with little of the fun of the original 1993 movie, and cringingly stuck between dreary slapstick and "Kramer vs. Kramer."...

In the news today: The omicron variant of COVID-19. Tucker Carlson's dangerous demonization of supposed enemies apparently is something for the cameras, because in his personal life? Different story. And Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to make the na...

If you've been following the news at all this week, you've likely seen a lot of alarming updates about the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Cases detected in over a dozen states, including New York, the D.C. area, California, and Georgia...

Brian Stryker, a Democratic pollster, is sounding alarm bells ahead of the 2022 midterm election, urging his party to shift focus from social issues to the economy. Stryker's warning comes as a group of 22 House Democrats plead with leadership to pass...

Last week, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) sat down with CNN for a rare TV interview. NBC's Mehdi Hasan breaks down her responses and pitches some follow-up questions....

Ten days ago, we'd never heard of the Omicron variant. Now it's spreading rapidly across the world. While European leaders take decisive action, the United States is struggling to control Covid-19. NBC's Mehdi Hasan says that more than 18 mont...

There are a lot of headlines detailing a drop in birth rates, but has anyone wondered why? MSNCB's host of American Voices, Alicia Menendez, details how the state of our country is impacting those statistics....

PBS documentary "American Exile" features two U.S. military veterans who fought in Vietnam, only to fight back deportation notices received decades later. While the threat of deportation for Army veteran Valente Valenzuela and Marine Corps veteran...

A nationwide effort by state Republicans to secure control of legislatures ahead of the 2022 midterms could allow the GOP, and Donald Trump, to win an election even without winning a majority of votes. But there remains a broad coalition of voters who are...

When the child bride realized what her family had signed her up for, she tried to escape, but the local authorities apprehended her and locked her up....

by Tasmiha Khan This story was originally published at Prism . Coverage of the fight against climate change in the U.S. often ignores the efforts of Muslim activists, for whom caring for the environment is a religious obligation. However, Muslims have bee...

If the Supreme Court overturns or guts Roe V. Wade, states will have the power to restrict abortion access. MSNBC Contributor Melissa Murray and MSNBC Political Analyst Brittany Packnett Cunningham joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss th...

A new MSNBC podcast is investigating the radicalization of Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old from Kennesaw, Georgia, who was one of the five people who died during the January 6th insurrection.In...

The Supreme Court appears willing to overturn Roe vs. Wade after hearing arguments on a Mississippi abortion ban this week. Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California says the conservative majority is "trying to roll the clock back to... the days of Ji...

The January 6th Committee this week announced that it has conducted at least 250 interviews with people related to the Capitol attack. The panel plans to conduct public hearings beginning sometime in 2022. A panel joins American Voices with Alicia Menende...

Republicans are openly floating the idea that they'll kick Democrats off of committees if the GOP takes back the House. Democrats still want to punish Republican misdeeds....

Ableism is pervasive in society, accepted as normal and "how things are," because too many people are oblivious to the myriad ways systemic ableism determines how we build out human spaces and interact. Even if you aren't disabled, read on&mda...

Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. I've written about rest in campaigns and why I think it is important . Today I want to talk about rest and ease, and what both can offer potential voters when candidates embrace them. T...

I want to do it with her, but I have a dilemma....

After normal presidents stop presidenting, they're typically deluged with offers from major publishing houses for the right to release their memoirs. But judging from the blowback The Wall Street Journal received after publishing Donald Trump's re...

From the day of his first positive test until his hospitalization last year, the former president came in contact with more than 500 people in proximity to him or at crowded events, according to a Washington Post analysis....

The tennis star's disappearance is part of a larger pattern of censorship and misogyny....

Former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) is set to announce his bid challenging Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) this week, marking a GOP primary clash in the battleground state amid former President Trump'Former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) is set to announce his bid ...

Debra Katz says her client, who wishes to remain anonymous, detailed the allegations to CNN last week....

by Aysha Khan This article was originally published at Prism . The Biden White House has ended its first fiscal year with a stunning new record: admitting the lowest number of refugees to the U.S. ever since the Refugee Act passed in 1980. Refugee advocat...

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) on Sunday suggested that abortion laws should be left to states to decide, days after conservatives on the Supreme Court demonstrated a lack of pretense as they questioned Roe v.Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) on Sunday suggested that aborti...

Perdue was narrowly forced into a runoff in the 2020 election and lost his seat to Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.)....

Even though I'm not a parent (you can thank me later, nonexistent kids who were never forced to explain my Igloo cooler-sized head and piquant yeti musk to your friends and classmates), I feel every bit of this mini-Twitter thread from Rep. Eric Swalw...

Dole ran for the presidency three times and was the Senate Republican leader for more than a decade....

Dole died Sunday at age 98....

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded we've heard an awful lot from the right—a near-constant refrain, in fact—about their "freedom." The word itself has become a shibboleth, wielded like a bludgeon against any attempts to rein in ...

The winner is expected to face Democrat Stacey Abrams, who made her own campaign official last week....

What else might people do to prevent COVID-19—aside from taking a free, safe, effective, FDA-approved vaccine? Horse paste was all the rage for a while. Bleach injections never really took off, despite the ocher abomination's imprimatur. Oh, I k...

Republican and Democratic members of Congress sent an outpouring of condolences on Sunday following the news of the death of longtime lawmaker and World War II hero Bob Dole....

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Sunday said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has assured her that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Sunday said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi......

The former Republican leader played a key role in the Americans with Disabilities Act, but stuck with the GOP as the party turned its back on the law....

White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sat down with Jonathan to talk about curbing the spread of the Omicron Covid variant, President Biden's upcoming call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, gun control in the wake of the...

More than 65 million Americans could lose access to abortion care if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus and MSNBC legal analyst Maya Wiley join Jonathan Capehart to discuss....

San Francisco's mayor London Breed sat down with Jonathan Capehart to discuss the unique challenges facing her city, including the Omicron variant and the city's homelessness crisis - and why Donald Trump can take his suggestions elsewhere....

New investigations and more charges are expected in the Oxford school shooting after new details arise on what happened when Ethan Crumbley was taken into custody after the shooting. NBC's Heidi Przybyla reports....

Stuart Stevens and Michael Steele tell Jonathan Capehart why...

In this week's Bye Line, Jonathan Capehart responds to Sen. Ron Johnson's remarks that Dr. Fauci "overhyped" the 1980s AIDS crisis and is doing the same with Covid. "AIDS wasn't 'overhyped'. It was ignored,...

We didn't see much of Ian Nepomniachtchi on Sunday, though the Russian grandmaster is nominally competing for the World Chess Championship in Dubai. He spent much of the day in a private room, hidden away from spectators and cameras, while the chess w...

Omar also called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy...