My own first memory of Hungary was from when I was just 8 years old and Hungarian nationalists rose up against the Soviet occupiers...

I have to admit that I don't have many Republican friends. But when I first joined the board of People for the American Way, the...

In 1990 Michael Godwin came up with a stupid rule that came to be known as Godwin's Law. The upshot was that it was considered outré to...

The Republican Party has been struggling to turn the failed Trump coup and violent insurrection of 1/6 into a day of heroism and...

Watching my country devolve into authoritarianism, if not fascism, has been gut-wrenching. When Nixon was first elected president I left...

This morning, Dana Bash had AOC on State of the Union as her guest. Eager to lead her into an attack on conservative Democrats, Bash...

I keep hearing people refer to Señor Trumpanzee as "former president Ubu." I like Pere Ubu's music and general aesthetic so I didn't get...

Sometimes I flip MSNBC on before falling asleep. Last night was one of those times and the video above is what I saw-- Rachel Maddow...

More than a few states have moribund Democratic parties incapable of fielding competitive statewide candidates. Ohio and Florida and the...

Right-wing aggression has America's democracy hanging by a thread. The Democrats control the White House and both branches of Congress....

This morning, Ross Douthat, writing plaintively about "a conservatism defined by despair and disillusionment," reminded his NY Times...

Liam O'Mara was the first candidate Blue America endorsed for the 2022 cycle. The southwest Riverside County super-progressive has...

Is Federico "Freddie" Klein a member of BLM? No? How about antifa? Is he an antifa poobah from Portland? A socialist from the Bronx (like...

Tony Schwartz, the guy who ghost-wrote Trump's first book, Art of the Deal, sent out the above tweet last night... and just as I was...

Former Bush officials, reported Reuters this morning, have been leaving the GOP, calling their old party a Trump Cult. They're right...

Michael McCaul (R-TX) is a typical right-wing establishment politician, except he's also one of the richest members of Congress. He may...

Let's focus on "the most evil" part of the description. In an OpEd for Haaretz this morning, David Rothkopf wrote that Trump "is...

That's Vanilla Ice performing at the Mar-A-Lago Trump New Years Eve Party. Rep Omari Hardy (D-Palm Beach) has called for the place to be...