Politics: Left

The US House of Representatives voted 398-17 Tuesday voted to pass a non-binding resolution that opposes the boycott movement against Israel....

The Department of Defense will finally have a confirmed secretary after more than seven months with acting positions at the top. The situation is far from being an isolated case. Acting heads of Cabinet-level positions have become common under President T...

Earlier in July there was much commotion around a suddenly canceled flight by Vice President Mike Pence to a New Hampshire roundtable on the opioid crisis. Did Trump accidentally swallow his Diet Coke button? Had John Bolton commandeered the White House s...

This one doubles as Maya Rudolph/Kenan Thompson/Steve Buscemi content....

The immigration enforcement operation touted by President Donald Trump as the beginning of an effort to deport 'millions' resulted in 35 arrests...

Former state Rep. Jeanne Ives, a far-right social conservative who almost beat then-Gov. Bruce Rauner in last year's GOP primary, announced that she would challenge Democratic freshman Rep. Sean Casten in Illinois' 6th District. Surprisingly, Ives...

One of the most successful legislative operations in recent memory was waged by a guy with no political experience. Here's how he did it....

Australia is set to pass laws to delay suspected extremists from returning home while Australian supporters of the Islamic State group are demanding to be repatriated from Syrian refugee camps...

Senator Amy Klobuchar, who serves on the Judiciary Committee and questioned FBI Director Wray, reacts to his testimony on domestic terrorism and Russian election interference....

Airplane food is reliably bland and always overpriced. To make matters worse, the workers who prepare your food often earn about the same in one hour as the cost of your stupid, disappointing in-flight cheese plate....

Cheyenne Hoyt and Florencio Millan-Vazquez were on their way to a doctor's appointment for their 7-month-old disabled daughter when ICE agents surrounded them and blocked them in, insisting they had a warrant for Millan-Vazquez's arrest. Hoyt bega...

Boris Johnson became the new prime minister of the United Kingdom today, and President Trump hailed him as the "Britain Trump"....

Former special counsel Robert Mueller's appearance before two House committees promises to be the TV event of the year in the U.S. House...

A group of environmental activists on Tuesday took a novel approach to calling for congressional action on climate change — by supergluing themselves to the walls of a Capitol tunnel....

An American citizen detained by immigration was finally released after more than three weeks, but his case is far from unique....

The impatience is reflected in primary challenges to two committee chairmen leading investigations: Judiciary's Jerrold Nadler and Ways and Means' Richard E. Neal....

Trump threatens Guatemala over Central American migrants seeking asylum in the US...

Campaign Action 2020 presidential hopeful and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is introducing a bill called the Student Loan Debt Relief Act that would cancel student debt for millions of Americans. The act is similar to the student debt cancellation prop...

Chris Hayes talks to Congressman Hakeem Jeffries about how leadership is working to find unity within the Democratic caucus....

I am loath to write a defense of Al Franken because—well, because I'm a coward. I know that doing this will produce nothing except a tsunami of criticism from people who think I'm just another apologist for rape culture who refuses to believ...

Her father tells Russian media she's already written 900 pages and hopes to use book sales to pay off her lawyers....

A bill aimed at protecting Venezuelan citizens currently living in the United States from deportation by granting them temporary protected status fails in the House of Representatives....

Drug abuse often masks other problems in a young person's life....

Ian Bassin and Zerlina Maxwell tell Chris Hayes what is at stake during Robert Mueller's Congressional testimony....

The House has overwhelmingly approved a resolution opposing an international effort to boycott Israel, as Democrats try to tamp down increasingly heated political rhetoric over differences with the longtime U.S. ally...

A mechanism exists for reviewing allegations against senators. It's a very flawed one, maybe, but it's the only one that exists. Bypassing it sets a dangerous precedent....

The former special prosecutor has vowed to stick to his report, making it unlikely he will serve as the dramatic accuser Trump critics yearn to see....

President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that the U.S. Constitution gives him the right "to do whatever I want." Trump made the remarks at a event sponsored by the conservative youth group Turning Point USA. "Then I have an Article 2, where I...

The Republican re-programming is not going well. Seems the GOP base actually remembers the "deficits are bad" meme that was drilled into them during the Obama years. Now that Trump and the GOP Tax Scam/tax cuts for billionaires program have blown ...

Chris says, "It's the Democrats big chance to ignite an impeachment drive, also their final one."...

HBO's new two-part documentary "Who Killed Garrett Phillips?," premiering on July 23 and 24, is a stunning—and enraging—examination of race and the U.S. criminal justice system....

The historic elections of Rep. Deb Haaland and Rep. Sharice Davids as the first Native women elected to Congress has greatly improved the political landscape at the federal level. Many of our tribal leaders and members now have a place to go in DC where e...

Millions could lose access to food stamps due to a new Trump administration rule; Israel begins a controversial demolition of Palestinian housing on the edge of east Jerusalem....

At a Tuesday press conference to explain the department of agriculture's latest plan to cut eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, USDA secretary Sonny Perdue pointed to a case in Minnesota. There...

Much has been said about Boris Johnson's shared commonalities with President Trump, from their notable hair to their leadership of a populist uprising in their respective countries....

The Democratic mayor of Helena, Montana Wilmot Collins joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss his campaign against Republican Senator Steve Daines....

President Trump is pressing on with his attacks on four congresswomen of color. Jemele Hill says, "I don't know what's so far left about equality, health care. The whole thing is that the Republicans/Conservatives have always positioned progre...

How, exactly, did the author of "The Waste Land" inspire this? And how did it become so popular? Explained....

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, whose dogged pursuit of the Watergate story was part of the journalistic and legal process that led to Nixon's resignation joins 'The Beat' for the first time on the eve of Bob Mu...

A bill aimed at protecting Venezuelan citizens currently living in the United States from deportation by granting them temporary protected status fails in the House of Representatives....

Democrats want to eliminate the debt limit "someday." When might that be?...

The flood plains aren't natural anymore....

Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said the late Sen. John McCain's example is...

President Donald Trump, according to President Donald Trump, won't be watching former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony to the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on Wednesday. Unless he does....

On a rainy but thankfully relatively cool summer morning in Washington, I joined People for the American Way to deliver more than 51,000 signatures to 11 members of the House, demanding support for the Women's Health Protection Act. Anti-abortion poli...

It does sound kind of funny to say you really liked an interview of yourself. But it's really more a......

Democrats promise to "bring the Mueller report to life" on Wednesday. NBC News reports, that their intention is "to help make more swing voters aware that the Muller report, far from exonerating Trump, contains significant evidence of wrongdoi...

President Trump also said that Representative Rashida Tlaib acted like a "crazed lunatic" while protesting at a 2016 Trump campaign event....

Over three weeks ago, Customs and Border Patrol agents arrested an 18-year-old American citizen who was born in Texas, and......

A refresher on Barr's handling of the Mueller report, ahead of the special counsel's testimony on Wednesday....