Politics: Left

During a House hearing, the Ohio Republican tried to paper over a now-infamous tweet saluting three popular right-wingers tarred by racist controversies....

Anthony Almojera, a paramedic and lieutenant for the New York City Fire Department, joins Morning Joe to share his thoughts on NYC Mayor Eric Adams' plan to move homeless people with mental illness to hospitals, possibly involuntarily....

Don't mistake Thursday's House Judiciary hearing for an investigation. We're no wiser about the alleged 2014 leak of Alito's Hobby Lobby opinion....

Former CIA Director John Brennan joins Andrea Mitchell to break down "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout's dangerous history as a "notorious international arms merchant," and the implications of the U.S. returning Bout to Moscow in exchang...

WNBA star Brittney Griner is back on U.S. soil after a harrowing 300-day nightmare in Russian custody. Terri Jackson, Executive Director of the Women's National Basketball Players Association, joins Andrea Mitchell with her reaction. "We are overj...

Some on the Twitter cleaning force had worked at the company for more than 10 years. But none of that mattered to its new owner, Elon Musk, when he kicked them to the curb just weeks before the holidays. "It's a sad and frustrating thing for our f...

While WNBA star Brittney Griner is back in the U.S., other Americans are still being held in Russia. Unlike Griner, Marc Fogel, an American teacher serving a 14-year sentence in Russia, has not been officially designated by the U.S. State Department as &#...

The last time we checked in with Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, he was fundraising on of the profoundly unscientific claim that Democratic officials wanted to "grant abortions up to 52 weeks." Many of you will know from grade school ...

Last month, Maxwell Frost, 25, was elected as the youngest member of the House. I followed him around during his first few weeks in D.C. as he settled into the Beltway....

FoxNews.com has begun to publish anti-LGBTQ articles that use TikTok videos in place of meaningful reporting, mimicking a strategy popularized by the virulently anti-LGBTQ Twitter account Libs of TikTok....

The Arizona senator's decision boils down to daring Democrats to run a challenger against her in 2024 and risk handing the state to a Republican....

It's fair to say that both Geno Smith and the Seattle Seahawks entered the 2022 season with very low expectations. Coming off a disappointing 7-10 season in 2021 that saw the team finish last in the NFC West, Seattle was considered to be in full rebui...

Gallego put out a statement going after Sinema after the senator announced Friday that she'd left the Democratic party to become an independent.Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) put out a statement going after Sen. Krysten......

The Justice Department requested a judge hold Trump's office in contempt over a grand jury subpoena seeking the return of documents with classified markings....

Parenting advice on diet culture, worried grandmothers, and new babies....

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema alienated her own voters. Let's not pretend otherwise....

Russian state TV and right-wing media are pushing the same line of attack on WNBA player Brittney Griner almost verbatim in the wake of her release from Russian prison as part of a negotiated prisoner exchange, arguing she was prioritized over another Ame...

A look back at Thursday's Forbes 50 Over 50 Luncheon in New York City honoring successful women over the age of 50....

A curious group of Republicans supported the Respect for Marriage Act over the summer, only to change their minds after the bill became more conservative....

Reality is starting to sink in for Republicans who aren't Kevin McCarthy or Freedom Caucus maniacs that they are going into Jan. 3 and a House majority without any kind of a plan for what happens when they can't agree on a speaker. Kevin McCarthy ...

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the last Senate race of the midterm cycle and a big day of oral arguments at the Supreme Court. You can listen to...A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! Th...

It gets to the heart of transatlantic cultural differences over openness, class and racism....

Last season, the Cleveland Cavaliers were arguably the NBA's most improved team. After going just 22-50 during the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 campaign, Cleveland improved its record all the way to 44-38, making the second-largest season-to-season jump...

In 2013, Fox News dropped Dick Morris after he confidently predicted that Mitt Romney would win in a "landslide," among other comical prognostications. Newsmax has so little respect for its viewers that it's now airing Morris' hopium, incl...

Once again, our pandemic numbers are creeping in the wrong direction....

Kyrsten Sinema left the Democratic Party and registered as independent. But polls show the majority of Arizona voters, regardless of party, hold her in low regard....

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The two heavyweights are each other's greatest test yet....

After news broke that WNBA star Brittney Griner had been released from Russian custody on Thursday morning as a part of the negotiated prisoner exchange, right-wing media figures responded by attacking her, calling her a "pot-smoking,4; "Americ...

However, Anderson Lee Aldrich's family refused to testify in court about their fears, leading to charges being dropped after an alarming incident in 2021....

As the year comes to a close, so does the 117th session of Congress. Time is running low for Democrats trying to cram their priorities through the chambers before a divided Congress takes over in...As the year comes to a close, so does the 117th session.....

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Like you, I spat a few curses when I woke up this morning to the news that Kyrsten Sinema had left the Democratic Party to become an independent. Had she just snatched defeat from the jaws of our victory and dumped it on our laps? Turns out the answer is ...

An exquisite follow-up to a record-setting photo taken earlier this year....

The Journalism and Competition Preservation Act would only enrich the people already squeezing local news....

Today's installment of campaign-related news items from across the country....

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's decision to leave the Democratic Party could make it tougher for Democrats to hold onto her Senate seat in 2024....

For Sinema, political questions loom larger after her party switch than questions about ballot access....

The Rev. Al Sharpton joins Morning Joe to discuss 'Loudmouth,' the new documentary that spans more than 40 years of his journey to becoming one of the most recognizable civil rights leaders....

Follow live results where 291 Republican election deniers, who disputed the 2020 election results, are winning or losing their 2022 midterm election races....

A recent story shows it's a racket. Because it's taxpayer-funded through Medicare, it shouldn't be too hard to end it....

In their coverage of 303 Creative v. Elenis, the case concerning Colorado web designer Lorie Smith and her alleged right to deny certain services to gay couples, many right-wing media outlets have ignored the context of the case and how it fits into the l...

U.S. officials say Moscow had been pushing for the release of a Russian assassin being held in Germany before finally agreeing to release Ms. Griner for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer....

Even the most advanced artificial intelligence is hindered by the inherently racist data it's trained on....

Young voters—and particularly younger women—voted overwhelmingly more Democratic than their older counterparts, according to a newly released post-election survey of more than 5,000 registered voters conducted by Navigator Research. Gen Z vote...

Is it cheaper to watch matches at home or the pub? The football cost-of-living crisis in numbers....

How Afghan refugees are navigating the U.S....

Mitt Romney is the first Republican senator to say he won't support Donald Trump in 2024, even if the former president is the GOP presidential nominee....

Klacik sued Owens for $20M after the right-wing talker claimed the ex-candidate was a strip club "madame" who used campaign funds on cocaine. A judge has now dismissed the suit....