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Surfing That Blue Wave: A Democrat With The 'Empathy Factor'

By Steven Rosenfeld
Senate Probers Say Russians Could Alter Voter Files In 2016

By Cody Fenwick
Rudy Giuliani Keeps Racking Up Potential Felony Charges Against Client Trump

By Eric Boehlert
In The High Plains, Mutual Aid Saves Ranchers From Merciless Wildfires

By Gene Lyons
Trump Melts Down (Again) After Reports Kelly Called Him 'An Idiot'

By Joe Conason

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Surfing That Blue Wave: A Democrat With The 'Empathy Factor'
Progressive Democrat Kara Eastman campaigned in Nebraska's congressional primary by emphasizing the personal side of the Bernie Sanders platform -- and last week she won.
By Steven Rosenfeld
Senate Probers Say Russians Could Alter Voter Files In 2016
This previously concealed information shows just how vulnerable the U.S. elections system is.
By Cody Fenwick
Rudy Giuliani Keeps Racking Up Potential Felony Charges Against Client Trump
If Rudy Giuliani’s goal was to save Trump from any campaign donation violations, he failed miserably. Instead Rudy simply obliterated any remaining shred of White House credibility.
By Eric Boehlert
In The High Plains, Mutual Aid Saves Ranchers From Merciless Wildfires
By Gene Lyons
Trump Melts Down (Again) After Reports Kelly Called Him 'An Idiot'
By Joe Conason
Comey Blasts Trump As 'Morally Unfit' In ABC Interview
By National Memo
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Four-Star General Says Trump Is 'Threat To National Security'
Retired four-star Army general Barry McCaffrey issued a dire warning Friday, saying he has reached the conclusion that Trump poses a “serious threat to US national security.” In a tweet posted late Friday afternoon, McCaffrey said he “reluctantly” came to that conclusion based on Trump’s refusal “to protect vital US interests from active Russian attacks.”
By Caroline Orr
Danziger: GOP Elephant Becomes A Sinister Beast
By Kurt Boyer
Broken Promise: Trump Must Borrow 84 Percent More To Finance Debt
By Alison R. Parker
Red Cross General Counsel Resigns Over Handling of Sexual Assault Allegations
By Justin Elliott
Lara Trump: 'We're Sad' To See Alleged Sexual Abuser Wynn Resign From RNC
By Tommy Christopher
The Trump Economy Is No Great Success (And He Didn't Build It)
By Steve Chapman
Report: Trump Launched Campaign To Discredit Potential FBI Witnesses
By Caroline Orr
Judge: Kushner Companies Must Reveal Identities Of Real Estate Partners In Maryland Lawsuit
By Alec MacGillis
California Murder Suspect Reportedly Trained With 'Atomwaffen' Neo-Nazi Group
By A.C. Thompson Ali Winston and Jake Hanrahan
Blowout! Democrat Wins Suburban Pittsburgh Special Election By 48 Points
By Matthew Chapman
Second Women's March Again Brings Massive Protest Crowds Into Streets
By April M. Short
If This Initiative Gets On The Ballot, Florida Could Be Changed Forever
By Steven Rosenfeld
Upbeat Trump Says Terror Attack Could Still Save Republicans In Midterm Election
By Chris Sosa
Lax Texas Gun Laws Enabled Sutherland Massacre
The mass shooting taking place just a month after the deadly Las Vegas shooting, where 58 were killed and 500 more injured, joining a long list of mass shootings in the United States each year. According to the Gun Violence Archive database, the Sutherland shooting marks the 307th mass shooting so far in 2017.
By Celisa Calacal
Will Texas Massacre Finally Get Military To Improve Its Criminal Reporting System?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had an urgent question Monday about Devin Patrick Kelley, the former U.S. Air Force airman who is accused of killing 26 people worshipping at a church service yesterday: How was it that Kelley, convicted of domestic violence and discharged for bad conduct, was still able to get a gun?”
By A.C. Thompson
Hurricane Refugees In Florida Could Tip Electoral Balance
The exodus of tens of thousands of voting-age Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland following Hurricane Maria is likely to change the political complexion of several states, but nowhere more than Florida, where the refugees expected are equal to more than half of Donald Trump’s margin over Hillary Clinton last November.
By Steven Rosenfeld
FEMA Had A Plan For Responding To A Hurricane In Puerto Rico — But It Doesn’t Want You To See It
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, citing unspecified “potentially sensitive information,” is declining to release a document it drafted several years ago that details how it would respond to a major hurricane in Puerto Rico.
By Justin Elliott
Contrary To Spin, Stronger Gun Laws Do Reduce Gun Violence
In an interview with Media Matters, Dr. Daniel Webster, who serves as the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, pointed to research showing significant reductions in gun violence associated with permit-to-purchase laws, and explained how the Post erred...
By Timothy Johnson
It Happens All The Time: Hollywood, Washington, The Old South
The free-fall from movie pharaoh to industry pariah brought a breeze of vindication. Weinstein's life crumbled in such cinematic style that a plot point was born: a flood named #MeToo. The hashtag sprang up for legions of women who vividly reported sexual assault and harassment. They voiced their experiences online, breaking silences on social media.
By Jamie Stiehm
The Trump Effect? 9 Eruptions Of White Nationalist Terror
Webster’s Dictionary defines terrorism as the "calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature.” To hear neocons, Republicans, the Christian right and the so-called alt-right tell it, such violence is exercised primarily by Muslims and people of color.
By Alex Henderson
Another Way To Banish The Bump Stock
The killer in the Las Vegas massacre did something no previous mass shooter is known to have done: He equipped semiautomatic rifles with a "bump stock," which allowed them to fire roughly as fast as a machine gun. Even some Republicans in Congress are willing to consider banning the device.
By Steve Chapman
Desperate Puerto Ricans Seeking Water At Toxic Sites
As Donald Trump waffles between cruelly threatening to pull aid from Puerto Rico and pathetically whining about criticism of his terrible relief efforts there, the island continues to deal with ongoing devastation. According to a FEMA report, nearly 40 percent of Puerto Ricans have no access to clean drinking water.
By Kali Holloway
Why America Is Desperately Trying to Understand The Vegas Shooter's Motives
In Las Vegas, the forensic postmortem on the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history stands at two out of three. Means? Check. Opportunity? Check. But unless new evidence turns up, the killer’s motive is a black box.
By Marty Kaplan
Conspiracy Theorists Struggle To Explain Vegas Horror
Hardly anybody today believes that once unsettling events like solar eclipses are caused by wolves or demons eating the sun. But when it comes to all-too-frequent eruptions of what Philip Roth calls “the indigenous American berserk,” many retreat into superstition, or worse. Worse because we don’t blame mythological creatures for increasingly common mass shooting events like Stephen Paddock’s murder of 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas. Instead, we blame each other.
By Gene Lyons
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