Politics: Left

First came the coronavirus, then unrest over racial injustice...

First came the coronavirus, then unrest over racial injustice...

To win Florida and other pivotal swing states in November, Joe Biden is not only hoping to run up the score against President Donald Trump with Latino voters, but also push the community's turnout to levels far higher than when Hillary Clinton was def...

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President Donald Trump is set to hold an outdoor campaign rally Saturday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire...

Veteran Republican operatives Matt Gorman and Michael Steel talk with NBC's Kasie Hunt about the future of the Republican Party and how President Trump's campaign will impact it this election cycle...

With high-profile cases set to be decided this week, NBC Justice Correspondent Pete Williams talks to NBC's Capitol Hill Correspondent Kasie Hunt about early signs from how the court may rule, as well as the recent decisions from Chief Justice John...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Presidential Historian and Author Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with NBC's Kasie Hunt about how President Trump's leadership during the coronavirus pandemic matches up with former presidents and the temperament needed for a suc...

During his hate-filled speech on Independence Day on the south lawn of the White House, Trump told another dangerous lie about the pandemic that's still raging out of control in the United States with new infections now at a rate of over 50,000 a day ...

The Tony-nominated actor has died at 41, his wife announced....

Alexander John Feaster wasn't terribly popular with his neighbors in Hunter, Oklahoma. An unrepentant neo-Nazi, he liked to decorate his home with bright red swastika banners, and would go out on the town dressed in full Nazi regalia, including the re...

In a survey of New Hampshire voters released last month, the president trails Joe Biden....

It's another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you've missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide . Every week I try to ta...

On this Independence Day weekend Kasie Hunt discusses the deepening of a divided America and its foundations with the framers of the Constitution themselves with Jon Meacham and Eddie Glaude Jr....

It will be the president's first official campaign rally since the sparsely attended event in Tulsa last month....

Trump's Independence Day fear-mongering about...

An East L.A. family leans on community during the pandemic as government lets down low-income immigrants. By Angelika Albaladejo, for Capitol and Main Jenny's family lives paycheck-to-paycheck on Los Angeles' Eastside. Usually, they can piece toge...

A woman was caught on video destroying a Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez, California. The incident was said to have occurred during Saturday's Fourth of July holiday. Multiple videos of the incident were shared on social media. The woman, who was...

Tammy Duckworth, senator from Illinois and a war hero, is being looked at seriously....

Video captured at a protest in Salem, Oregon over the weekend shows an officer interacting with anti-Black Lives Matters protesters, who were identified as members of the Proud Boys group. A clip shared on social media on Saturday appears to show an offic...

There is clearly no number of deaths that will make Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and their associated toadies take the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic seriously. On CBS' Face The Nation, host Margaret Brennan started off by informing viewers that (despite so...

The mayors of two Texas metropolitan areas on Sunday expressed their dismay with President Trump's false claim that 99% of coronavirus......

President Donald Trump is set to hold an outdoor campaign rally Saturday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire...

It's not yet clear if the forms of economic activity resuming in most states will quickly reduce the nation's high unemployment rates, but one thing is certain: it won't happen without diapers. Most child care operators will not accept a baby ...

A grandfather says his 11-year-old grandson was grabbing a phone charger on the way to a cookout in Washington when he was struck and killed by a stray bullet...

President Trump will provide masks at his next rally in Portsmouth, N.H. This is a change from his past rallies where he did not encourage wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic....

Jada Pinkett Smith, the black wealth gap, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr., and more are discussed on AM JOY on MSNBC as Tiffany Cross in for Joy Reid and her panel debate: Who Won the Week?...

A 24-year-old protester has died after disturbing video shows a white jaguar speeding down a closed Seattle freeway into a crowd of George Floyd protesters on the Fourth of July. Summer Taylor died after being transported to Harborview Medical Center, acc...

The president is losing the war against the novel coronavirus, and his reelection campaign is struggling. In response, he has decided to start a different war....

Former national security adviser Susan Rice on Sunday slammed President Trump for claiming that he was never briefed on the intelligence......

Donald Trump made many statements during the 2016 presidential election cycle, which critics decried as racist and sexist, but which tended not to be explicitly called such by much of the media. Tiffany Cross in for Joy Reid and her panel discuss race and...

Right now, state and local governments are trying to figure out how to safely reopen schools with plenty of social distance ... and, in some areas, a lot less teachers. Cities and towns are responding to budget shortfalls by laying off teachers and parapr...

The driver entered a closed stretch of highway and drove into a protest march....

Donald Trump apparently had a supporter in Kanye West in the past, but on Saturday, July 4th, the pop star tweeted that he's running for president in the 2020 election....

Across the country, as the novel coronavirus continues to spread, officials urged Americans to be mindful of their July 4 plans. A number of community displays were canceled out of fears of worsening the current outbreak that has seen an 89 percent increa...

Florida recently hit 11,458 new coronavirus cases in a daily record for the state. Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried tells Tiffany Cross in for Joy Reid that under the leadership of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and...

A group of 239 scientists say the WHO is ignoring evidence showing there is real risk of airborne transmission, particularly in poorly ventilated spaces....

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) on Sunday said that there should be a national mask requirement to combat the......

Officials are searching for multiple suspects in a Greenville, S.C., nightclub shooting. The event was partially violating the state's coronavirus restrictions since venues across S.C., are closed due to the virus. More than eight people were injured ...

The image of young Elijah McClain playing his violin for rescue animals in a shelter won't leave my brain lately. I can't stop thinking about his last walk, listening to his music and dancing as he went. I can't stop thinking about his last wo...

Florida is a battleground state in the 2020 election in which Donald Trump faces off against Joe Biden in a 'referendum' on his performance as president, pollster and political strategist Fernand R. Amandi asserts to Tiffany Cross in for Joy Reid....

The hosts of Fox & Friends argued on Sunday that Kanye West could unite the country by running for president in 2020. During a segment on the Fox News morning show, host Jedidiah Bila noted that West had recently hinted on Twitter that he may be a candida...

Audio manufacturer Skullcandy has partnered with Tile—the company behind those little Bluetooth trackers—to ensure lost earbuds are a thing of the past....

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Sunday both acknowledged and downplayed America's racist history by saying that the country had "blemishes" in its past. During an interview on CNN, Ernst was asked if she was comfortable with President Donald Trump&#...

Coronavirus cases could spike through large, public gatherings this July 4th weekend, as Dr. Corey Hbert expresses his alarm that so many Americans are not wearing masks and social distancing while still in phase one of the COVID-19 outbreak....

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) said that he would've liked to see more face coverings at President Trump's Fourth of July......

Though it is a holiday weekend, the Sunday news shows continued on in mostly the usual fashion. Trump ally Sen. Joni Ernst, one of the corrupt man-child's most ardent defenders as the Republican Senate nullified impeachment charges against Trump witho...

Race has reshaped America's two major parties and defined its politics....

Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests have coincided with an apparent rise in viral racist incidents captured on video. Tiffany Cross in for Joy Reid and her panel discuss these shocking viral videos sparking debates on the state of race relations...