Politics: Left

The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package moving through Congress advances an idea that Democrats have been nurturing for decades: establishing a guaranteed income for families with children....

Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, reacted to parents and children burning face masks outside Idaho's Capitol in Boise. The demonstration comes as Ohio Gov. DeWine is facing pressures to lift mask mandates in the state. Rep. Ryan said the pandemic is a...

Michelle Obama, Meghan Markle, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Stacey Abrams have been wrongly called 'angry black women' for being powerful black women. State Rep. Donna Bullock (D-PA) and scholar Brittney Cooper join Jonathan Capehart to debun...

Things in some parts of Texas always seem to be messy. Officers have been recorded not only depicting extreme violence but have been released on bail despite openly firing on and killing individuals. In the most recent incident involving violence and poli...

Cuomo says resigning amid sexual harassment allegations would be 'anti-democratic'New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will "not resign" amid sexual harassment allegations. The governor expressed that he feels it would be "anti-democrati...

Voting rights protections and legislation are championed by Jonathan Capehart as he remembers the late Rep. John Lewis and his historic leadership during the Selma march in this week's 'Bye Line.'...

A defiant governor tried to use a COVID-19 call with the press on Sunday to play defense in the face of spiraling sexual-harassment allegations. It did not go well....

White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeffrey Zients on Sunday shared the Biden administration's concerns with vaccine inequity, particularly in communities......

President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at leveraging federal resources to expand access to voting. The order comes on the 56th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when 600 peaceful protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Sel...

Sub headline in Idaho newspaper: Idaho Republican State Representative Karey Hanks said she has "done some research" and said face masks can cause injuries to "even our souls." Yeah, she doesn't want to wear a mask and there ain't ...

Fox News host Eric Shawn on Sunday challenged Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) after she claimed that the COVID-19 relief bill was delayed because Democrats "wanted people to suffer." "The Democrats did not want timely relief prior to the election...

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin made the rounds of the Sunday shows (four of them, in fact) for reasons we will not speculate on , but a bit of news did come out of it. On "Meet the Press," while speaking to the unpainted plaster wall that is Chuck To...

These gloves are perfect for doing anything where a clutz and a sharp blade are involved....

The moderate West Virginia Democrat said it has become too easy to invoke the filibuster and making it more difficult could encourage compromise....

Joe Manchin's suggestion for changing the filibuster:...

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) warned Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) against the "catastrophic4; move of......

The executive order comes amid a push by Republican-led state legislatures to restrict voting....

Guest: Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Sally Kohn, Ani DiFranco, Wendy Davis...

President Biden will have the new John Lewis Voting Rights Act on his desk by August 6th Majority Whip James Clyburn vows. Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, also joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss....

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) expressed outrage on Sunday over a program that forgives some loans for disadvantaged farms . During an interview on Fox News, Graham said that the rules were unfair to white people. "Let me give you an example of something ...

CNN's Jake Tapper pressed Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on his callous decision to put the lives of his constituents at risk by lifting the mask mandate in his state. Republicans claim to love "freedom," but not so much when it comes to a woman...

President Joe Biden would not be where he is without Black voters. Fittingly, he's made some pretty weighty promises in his plan for Black America. We're keeping track of them all in a biweekly series. Whereas we normally keep track of how the pre...

Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday called out Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for enjoying his "position of power a little too much." During an interview on Fox News, Wallace noted that Manchin had become a key vote when it comes to preventing Democrat...

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday struggled to believe Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) after he claimed that there would be an "invasion" of "1 million" migrants by the summer of 2021. Graham made the assertion during an interview on Fox ...

The measure passed by the Senate, and headed to the House for final approval before going to President Biden's desk, contains money for direct checks, jobless benefits, state and local aid, and more....

President Joe Biden on Sunday siged an executive order to expand voting access....

The West Virginia lawmaker insisted he did not truly enjoy being the key swing vote in Congress, saying: "Oh, my goodness. That would be horrible."...

The past 12 months have taken a toll on us all, but the hardest hit have been the women and men working on the front lines in our nation's hospitals. Ali Velshi goes in depth with a group of front line responders from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center...

Yes, all of the COVID-19 vaccines are very good. No, they're not all the same....

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Sunday said that he stood by his opposition to eliminating the filibuster entirely — but......

Sen. Bernie Sanders praised the passing of the American Rescue Plan, calling it the greatest piece of legislation that has helped the working class in America in modern history. While Republicans in Congress, and their propagandists on right-wing media sc...

In 2016, after a decade of economic devastation, Stockton, California, elected the country's youngest mayor—and the city's first Black mayor. Twenty-six-year-old Michael Tubbs' platform was simple: Instead of investing money into the app...

Jeffrey Zients, Michael Osterholm, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Yamiche Alcindor, Jeh Johnson, Danielle Pletka and Jonathan Allen...

The following is a transcript of an interview with civil rights attorney Ben Crump that aired Sunday, March 7, 2020, on "Face the Nation."...

The unusual strategy to slow the promotions until after the election — intended to protect the officers' accomplished careers — was devised by top Pentagon leaders....

Cuomo is facing calls for his resignation amid a growing list of sexual harassment allegations....

"Do you accept that the 2020 presidential election was free and fair?" Jake Tapper pressed Gov. Reeves on Sunday....

Trump's still desperately trying to remain relevant and keep his hold over the Republican party, but as CNN's Paul Begala rightfully noted, Trump's as likely to be successful with this move "as the captain of the Exxon Valdez back in the 9...

The following is a transcript of an interview with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy that aired Sunday, March 7, 2021, on "Face the Nation."...

The triumph belied the broader challenges facing President Biden as he tries to navigate intraparty divisions to push through an ambitious agenda on voting rights, climate change, immigration and other issues....

President Biden's commitment to a $15 an hour minimum wage is affirmed by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who also addresses the president's perspective on Senate procedures some see as a possible impediment to his agenda. White House Press...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Sunday doubled down on his defense of the Senate filibuster, which is preventing Democrats from enacting most of their agenda. Manchin was asked about his support for the filibuster during an interview with Fox News host Chris W...

In reports by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal two more women claim Gov. Andrew Cuomo was inappropriate in touching and speaking to them....

Former white supremacist skinhead gang member Frank Meeink who now lectures against the movement discussed what's driving the radicalization we're seeing on the right with CNN's Pamela Brown. None of this will come as any surprise to anyone wh...

If this were a perfect country, the rejection of Donald Trump by a substantial majority of the American electorate would have resulted in a fundamental, across-the-board rebuke, where everything Trump ever said or stood for would stand repudiated, and the...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tonight spill all the tea to Oprah Winfrey about their struggles in royal life. Here's how to watch it....

"So after changes that you pushed for, enhanced federal unemployment benefits now expire about a month earlier and there's a new income cap for writing them off on your taxes."...