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Trump Shutdown: Service Members Unpaid For First Time In US History
Federal Judge Rejects Trump's Citizenship Question On Census
In Times Email, Barr Endorses Trump's Vendetta Against Clintons
House Republicans Finally Sanction Racist Rep. Steve King
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Is Trump's EPA Trying To Kill The Gulf Of Mexico?
By Sarah Okeson
Bigger: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Grows Every Time Far Right Attacks Her
By Parker Molloy
How Frantic Republicans Enable Trump's Russia Cover-Up
By Amanda Marcotte
How A 'National Emergency' Could Backfire On Trump
By Steve Chapman

Top News

What? Attorney General Nominee Outlined Case For Impeachment
At one point, it even seemed that Barr made a compelling case for impeaching Trump — though it’s not clear how intentional this was.
By Cody Fenwick

In Speech To Farmers, Trump Takes 30 Minutes To Rant About His 'Wall'
He rambled about the wall for more than half an hour before he even brought up farming.
By Oliver Willis

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Barr Nomination: Will Partisan Politics Trump Justice?
By Joe Conason

'No Collusion?' Trump Team Had 100-Plus Contacts With Russians
Trump's campaign and transition teams had extensive contact with Russian officials — and they lied about it every single time.
By Caroline Orr
Is This Social Security Official Trump's Weirdest Appointee?
Robert W. Patterson also suggested that homosexuality is a mental disorder and sexual orientation can be forcibly changed.
By Eric Hananoki
What Would Make Republicans Impeach Him?
With a Democratic majority getting comfortable in the seats at the House of Representative, the faint aroma of impeachment is in the air.
By Cody Fenwick
Advice To Furloughed Workers: Babysit And Hold A Garage Sale
Federal employees, their families, and those dependent on them remain caught in the crossfire of President Donald Trump’s pointless and destructive government shutdown, which he triggered in a desperate attempt…
By Cody Fenwick
Melting Down, Limbaugh Berates 'Uppity' Ocasio-Cortez
Rush Limbaugh seems a little scared of the new congresswoman.
By Oliver Willis
Report: White House 'Panicking' Amid Shutdown Chaos
As President Donald Trump’s self-imposed shutdown drags on with no end in sight, it’s becoming harder to understand how the gambit is supposed to end.
By Cody Fenwick

Money
America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
Amazon's drawn-out search for another command post to rival the home base in Seattle appears to have been a stunt.
By Froma Harrop
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
Prosecutors asked to probe dutch middlemen washing billions in dirty Kazakh cash for real estate deals in US and Europe.
By David Cay Johnston
The Hidden Money Funding The Midterms
Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors until after the election are gaining popularity among both Democrats and Republicans.
By ProPublica

Health
A Yale Football Player Quits To Save His Brain
He sat out for a week and a half, but when he resumed practice, something was wrong. "I got very lightheaded and could barely feel my legs," he recalls.
By Steve Chapman
Trump Calls Halt To Medical Progress Over Stem Cell Research
Once again, the Trump administration is ready to sacrifice human health at the altar of anti-science extremism.
By Emily Crockett
How Doctors Shamed Arrogant NRA
The NRA tried to shut down doctors pushing for gun safety. It backfired and the gun extremists have been publicly shamed for their actions for a week and counting.
By Oliver Willis

Lifestyle
DeNiro: Trump Makes Mobsters Look Bad
Two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro unloaded on Donald Trump in a scathing interview published Sunday by the Guardian, calling the president both a white supremacist and a “buffoon.”
By Elizabeth Preza
Are We Brave Enough For The New World Of Reproduction?
A new medical device may change almost everything we think about making babies.
By Froma Harrop
Trump Administration Seeks To Muzzle Scientists Protecting Vital Native American Sites
“Federal defendants do not have adequate time or space to address every formulation of the arguments,” Williams wrote.
By Sarah Okeson

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#EndorseThis: Fact-Checking Trump's Weird Cabinet Show
Anderson Cooper’s highly educational, darkly amusing fact check of Trump at his photo-op New Year cabinet meeting.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: How The Trump Saved Christmas!
Jimmy Kimmel has a new children’s book that chronicles Trump and his angry quest to preserve Christmas from marauding, politically correct liberals.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Colbert's Farewell To Crooked Trump Foundation
The corrupt Trump Foundation, now dissolved, will sell off all its remaining assets and donate the proceeds to a bona fide charity.
By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: God Re-Elects Trump, Romneys And Netflix Implode
This week in crazy, self-proclaimed prophetess Kat Kerr warned that God will make sure The Donald wins reelection.
By Michael Lathrop
This Week In Crazy: Grandpa Steve King Is Upset Over Google's iPhone
By Michael Lathrop
This Week In Crazy: Ross Douthat's WASP Sting, Scott Walker's Whining, And More
By Michael Lathrop

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POLITICS
Malala Rebukes Trump: 'This Is Not America'
By Matthew Chapman
DeNiro: Trump Makes Mobsters Look Bad
Trump's Border War
OPINION
The Reckoning Arrives For Donald Trump, Fox News, And The GOP
By Eric Boehlert
Evangelical Leaders Still Support Trump -- But Will Lewd Remarks Repel Voters?
In 24 Years of Town Hall Debates, The Winners, The Losers, And The Weird
BOOKS
Michelle And Sheryl And That Itty-Bitty Swearword
By Connie Schultz
House Of Trump, House Of Putin: The Untold Story Of Donald Trump And The Russian Mafia
Comic Relief From Rick Wilson As We Await Trump's Exit

NATIONAL
Waging War On US Intelligence, Trump Abuses Declassification Process
By Caroline Orr
White House Officials Fear President Is 'Mentally Unraveling'
Surfing That Blue Wave: A Democrat With The 'Empathy Factor'
MONEY
America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
By Froma Harrop
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
The Hidden Money Funding The Midterms
LIFESTYLE
DeNiro: Trump Makes Mobsters Look Bad
By Elizabeth Preza
#EndorseThis: How The Trump Saved Christmas!
SNL Cold Open: 'It's A Wonderful Trump' (Where He's Not President)

WORLD
In Speech To Farmers, Trump Takes 30 Minutes To Rant About His 'Wall'
By Oliver Willis
Foreigners Shape Up Americans
Trump Spews Nonsense: 'They Can Call It Peaches'
HEALTH
A Yale Football Player Quits To Save His Brain
By Steve Chapman
Trump Calls Halt To Medical Progress Over Stem Cell Research
How Doctors Shamed Arrogant NRA
VIDEO
#EndorseThis: Fact-Checking Trump's Weird Cabinet Show
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: How The Trump Saved Christmas!
#EndorseThis: Colbert's Farewell To Crooked Trump Foundation

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