Politics: Left

Donald Trump is already obsessing over 2020. He won't rule out using hacked data from his rivals, he's glued to the TV sizing up potential Democratic contenders during "executive time," and his minions are busy rigging the primaries to blo...

The student activists confronted the California senator on the Green New Deal....

Craft is currently serving as US ambassador to Canada....

We don't really need any more reasons to know that Donald Trump's border wall is a terrible and ghastly idea. But just in case the waste of money, blatant xenophobia, lies, lack of public support, and complete failure to meaningfully address drug ...

We knew that when red-marker-scribbling megalomaniac Ryan Zinke stepped down as interior secretary earlier this year it wouldn't be the last we'd hear about him....

'In real life, hate crimes are rare,' said the host....

First Daughter Ivanka Trump knows all about the importance of family and connections to get ahead in politics. That may at least be part of the reason why President Donald Trump's daughter took a break from her White House role to get involved in stud...

The small grass-roots organization wants to replace more centrist Democrats with liberal candidates — and that has made some lawmakers uneasy....

* Disclaimer: The author is writing this from the perspective of the very tired, very raw, very liberal Jew that she is. Please forgive her if her sarcasm and cynicism seems a bit, well, weary. As Walter Dellinger said in Thursday's interview on Rache...

For some donors, Duncan Hunter's misuse of campaign donations is no big deal. In fact, it's more of a feature than a bug, because now they can give lots more money to his legal defense fund, thereby ensuring his undying loyalty forever and ever, a...

What do you do if you're a U.S. attorney who wants to gain political cred with Trumpworld? For one prosecutor, North Carolina's Bobby Higdon, the answer appears to be prosecuting noncitizens for voting , TPM's Allegra Kirkland reports. The sta...

R&B singer R. Kelly is scheduled to appear in court Saturday following his arrest on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The hearing will set bail for the artist, who turned himself in to Chicago police late Friday after officials in Cook Count...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein found herself engulfed in controversy Friday after an activist group posted video of their encounter with the California senator and it didn't look good. Faced with children and teenagers (and their chaperones) calling for the se...

The launch of the Democratic presidential primary races has come with a new willingness to consider Big Ideas. Republican calls for tax cuts for the wealthy and austerity for absolutely everyone else continue without change, but polls show the general pub...

President Donald Trump's pick for ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Knight Craft, is a major supporter with deep ties to the coal industry who has argued that "both sides" of the climate science debate are equally valid. In two tweets la...

A new report from the New York Times on Senator Amy Klobuchar's treatment of her staff begs the question: How do you eat a salad with a comb? MSNBC's David Gura and his panel discusses....

Retired astronaut Mark Kelly is kicking off his U.S. Senate campaign with a rally in Tucson, Arizona...

High school students use social media and an alliance with a new Alabama senator to achieve an ambitious goal — a federal law to create a national archive of documents involving decades of civil rights cold cases....

Michael Cohen is said to be providing additional information about Trump Organization individuals and the Trump Inaugural Committee to the Southern District of New York....

Earlier this week, Goodloe Sutton, the editor and publisher of a small local paper in western Alabama published an editorial......

On Friday, along with new rumors, replacing the old rumors, to suggest that Robert Mueller will not release any report next can another bit of news that seems genuinely curious. As reported in the New York TImes , Donald Trump's former fixer Michael C...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem lamented that the Trump trade wars have "devastated" her state and put the entire state economy in danger of collapse if he doesn't get the trade talks with China wrapped up soon. Noem, a Republican, was inter...

Roma and The Favourite are the two most-nominated films, with 10 nods each....

The New York Times is reporting former Trump fixer Cohen is providing new info to New York prosecutors ahead of his Capitol Hill testimony. MSNBC's David Gura discusses with New York Times senior writer William Rashbaum....

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-V.T., joins historically diverse field of candidates looking to unseat President Trump in 2020. Sanders raised $6 million the day after launching his presidential campaign. MSNBC's David Gura discusses with a panel of guests....

Leading Off North Carolina: In an astonishing ruling released late on Friday afternoon, a North Carolina state court struck down two constitutional amendments passed by voters last fall, saying that because the Republican-run legislature had been elected ...

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Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta is under fire for a non-prosecution deal for multi-millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sexually abusing more than 30 teenage girls more than ten years ago. MSNBC's David Gura and a panel of.....

New Attorney General William Barr shuts down reports of the release of Robert Mueller's report next week. MSNBC's David Gura discusses with a panel of guests....

Urban, rural, suburban, red, blue and purple, American teachers from across the United States have been on strike. So far this year, teachers have picketed in one of the wealthiest states -- California, which has strong protections for public unions -- an...

First things first: The theme song of the week is Thank You for Being A Friend from the show The Golden Girls written by Andrew Gold and sung by Cynthia Fee....

Jaws dropped at the State Department last November when President Donald Trump tweeted a...

The newest addition to the Dear Prudence lineup, the mini-column, is moving to Saturday for a spell....

There have been so many big stories this week that you probably missed Roseanne Barr reminding us why we're lucky to be rid of her : Roseanne Barr took to her YouTube channel to slam Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, calling her a "Farrakhan loving.....

The plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States say they've been denied their right to a safe and stable climate....

After a dramatic awards seasons, the case for why 'Roma' will win a historic Best Picture (as well as the case for why it may not) and why the Academy may never be the same....

Greg Sargent /waPo: Pelosi just challenged Trump's corruption and lies. Here's what should come next. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and her fellow House Democrats just introduced a resolution to terminate President Trump's national emerg...

Small donations from grassroots donors online will be more important than ever for Democrats running for president in 2020....

The Mueller report is anticipated in the coming weeks, but experts predict this is just the beginning of criminal investigations....

Living in a studio apartment is like living in a game of Tetris : You're always rearranging things and always wrestling with the idea of adding even one more object . After two years of reorganizing the same studio, I finally thought that my arrangeme...

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With Fever Pitch , About a Boy , and High Fidelity , Nick Hornby created a niche penning romantic comedies from the male perspective and launching the crush-worthy careers of Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, and John Cusack on both sides of the pond. Then he went...

Republicans and Democrats agreed that something went right compared with how partisan conflict often plays out in the country's hyper-polarized political environment....

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Grilled by children, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein tries to teach a lesson in how to get environmental legislation passed....

Foreign policy has largely taken a back seat on the presidential campaign trail, and former Vice President Joe Biden could seize on that opening to position himself as the global policy expert if he decides to run...

Julie K. Brown, investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Alex Acosta, former prosecutor and now Trump Labor Secretary, made such an easy deal with Jeffrey Epstein and kept it secret from Epstein's victims....

Julie K. Brown, investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, talks with Rachel Maddow about what happens next in the Jeffrey Epstein case now that a judge has ruled that the prosecution deal he received was illegal, and what the potentially hundreds of...