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The impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate will be conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team....

The impeachment trial of Donald Trump starts Tuesday with debate on trial procedures—namely, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's carefully planned cover-up. The debate will be conducted by the House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team....

Sen. Susan Collins is remaining completely mum on Moscow Mitch's impeachment cover-up resolution. But don't think that that's because she didn't totally capitulate to it from the get-go. Collins told the Portland Press Herald that she's been consulting...

Oh boy, did Hillary Clinton create a shitshow today. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, she said, “I will say, however, that it's not only [Bernie Sanders], it's the culture around him. It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his...

The Justice Department is once again acting as Donald Trump’s personal law firm rather than doing what the Justice Department is supposed to do. The department’s mission statement is “To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has developed an elaborate procedural plan for an impeachment trial cover-up. Assuming that McConnell has his 53 Republicans in line to vote for the broad strokes of the cover-up and set it in motion, how will it...

Why would environmental organizations like  the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and 350.org have signed a pledge that they wouldn’t use a hotel chain’s environmental program? ...

The Affordable Care Act accomplished one major thing: It increased health coverage for Black Americans, according to a study just released by the Commonwealth Fund. In fact, the insurance rate ...

Cruelty is the point for Donald Trump and his minions, to the point of making more Americans go hungry . The work requirements and other restrictions the administration is imposing on Supplemental ...

The latest assault on hungry people from the Trump administration attacks school lunches. All those kids whose families can't provide nutritious meals at home any more because they no longer qualify for nutrition assistance can be fed with total...

Big banks agree with Elizabeth Warren that an Elizabeth Warren presidency would not be good for big banks. A series of reports from Barclays obtained by Mother Jones waxes fearful about Warren plans like a corporate profits tax, a wealth tax, canceling...

Team Trump is fanning out across the states making a big show of its outreach to women voters, black voters, and Latino voters. One of these efforts is more sincere than the other two. Sure, the Trump campaign would like to peel off a handful of black...

The problems of the gig economy are real, with corporations like Uber legitimately screwing over many of its workers. But the first attempts at addressing these concerns have been an unmitigated disaster in California—the bad actors are merely going to...

Sure, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says that Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget broke the law by withholding aid from Ukraine, but forget about all that, because Fox News has exonerated Trump. Trump tweeted a...

Maine Sen. Susan Collins is not having a good week. All eyes are on her over impeachment, where she's alternately  trying to pretend she's all responsible for getting witnesses for the Senate ...