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Malala Rebukes Trump: 'This Is Not America'

By Matthew Chapman
DeNiro: Trump Makes Mobsters Look Bad

By Elizabeth Preza
Trump's Border War

By Jim Hightower
Cortez Calls For Furlough Of Congressional Pay Amid Government Shutdown

By Alternet
Fat Cat: Steve Mnuchin, From Wall Street To Trump's Treasury

By Rebecca Burns and David Dayen

Top News in Politics

Malala Rebukes Trump: 'This Is Not America'
One person who is calling on an end to the talk of walls is Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate renowned the world over for her human rights and education advocacy.
By Matthew Chapman
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
Trump's Border War
Instead of the rule of law, the Trumpistas prefer to rule by fear.
By Jim Hightower
Cortez Calls For Furlough Of Congressional Pay Amid Government Shutdown
"Next time we have a gov shutdown, Congressional salaries should be furloughed as well."
By Alternet
Fat Cat: Steve Mnuchin, From Wall Street To Trump's Treasury
Mnuchin was a key architect of the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax cuts, passed last December, which over the next decade will funnel 83 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent of U.S. earners.
By Rebecca Burns and David Dayen
Ryan Pushes Easier Immigration — But Only For The Irish
Under the proposal, thousands of unused visas would go to Irish nationals.
By Julia Conley

Democrats Are Being Pulled Both Left And Center
The 2018 election showed two separate and contrary developments.
By Paul Starr
Bringing the Future Back Into American Politics
It's become a religion to Donald Trump that no moneyed interest should ever have to pass up a buck.
By Froma Harrop
What Is Populist, Really?
If a political pollster asked whether I consider myself a conservative or a liberal, I'd answer, "No."
By Jim Hightower
White House Watch

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
Trump's Border War
Instead of the rule of law, the Trumpistas prefer to rule by fear.
By Jim Hightower
Cortez Calls For Furlough Of Congressional Pay Amid Government Shutdown
"Next time we have a gov shutdown, Congressional salaries should be furloughed as well."
By Alternet
Bringing the Future Back Into American Politics
It's become a religion to Donald Trump that no moneyed interest should ever have to pass up a buck.
By Froma Harrop
Kanye West Dumping Trump? 'I've Been Used'
There is speculation Trump's attack on birthright citizenship might have been the last straw for him.
By Matthew Chapman
Will Trump's Evangelicals Suffer Retribution?
America’s conservative evangelicals, however, have taken up that diabolical offer.
By Alternet
Presidential Election

Bipartisan Furor As N.C. Law Closes Early Voting Locations
Nearly half of the state’s counties are shutting down polling places, in part because of a law passed in June.
By ProPublica
One Dollar, One Vote: The One Percent's Stealth Coup
No one should unfairly lose their franchise, but the poll demonstrated that people of color, that is people less likely to be 1 percenters or Republicans, lost out twice as often as white people.
By Leo W. Gerard
The Silly Debate About Socialism
Would someone kindly tell us which companies Bernie Sanders would nationalize, starting with Bernie Sanders?
By Froma Harrop
Judge In Voter Suppression Case Orders Kobach Return To Law School. Really.
Even more embarrassing than the loss, though, is that the judge thought Kobach's performance in defending the policy was so bad that he literally has to go back to school.
By Cody Fenwick
Danziger: Elephant In The Gloom
Some are enthused, some are craven, but Republican officials all know by now that their once grand party is merely a vehicle for this autocrat.
By Jeff Danziger
Why Political Reform Is So Difficult — And So Necessary
The system, which was instituted in 2010 and backed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was promoted as elevating more moderate candidates.
By Steven Rosenfeld
Capitol Hill

Kavanaugh's 'Character Assassination'
Brett Kavanaugh and his defenders could have used a thesaurus this week as they tried to cope with a second allegation of sexual assault.
By Steve Chapman
August Farewells To McCain -- And Another Great, Too
Lightly smiling, McCain tapped in Morse code on the elegant lunch table, to show how he communicated with other prisoners of war in the Hanoi Hilton. I couldn't get over his cheer.
By Jamie Stiehm
How McCain Paved The Way For Trump
He gave the senator from Arizona so many chances to display his admirable qualities that you could forget he had others.
By Steve Chapman
Cable Anchors: GOP Officials Refuse Invites To Discuss Trump's Helsinki Disaster
CNN’s Kate Bolduan: “I should note, we invited on all of the Republicans on the Senate intelligence committee today to talk about all of this. Those Republican members have all declined.”
By Grace Bennett
How Mitch McConnell Made Donald Trump
The president owes both his election and his long-term impact to the Senate majority leader, who not only engineered the strategy that will let Trump make two Supreme Court appointments, but also created the circumstances that facilitated his rise.
By Alec MacGillis
Where Is The Republican Gene McCarthy?
Twice in this campaign year, I have heard candidates publicly disparaging their opponents for, not unlike McCarthy, acting on conscience.
By Mark Shields
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