Politics: Left

Pete Buttigieg agreed with a voter here in Nevada on Tuesday who said he worries that...

Attorney General William Barr is said to have considered resigning over President Donald Trump's continued messages on Twitter about the Justice Department....

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) defended the meeting with Javad Zarif, saying...

The president has pardoned and commuted the sentences of 11 different people including a fmr. contestant on Trump's reality TV show and someone who frequently talked glowingly about him on FOX News....

Buttigieg said the president and the conservative radio host are unfit to lecture "anybody on family values."...

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) declared bankruptcy Tuesday after thousands of former scouts pursued lawsuits against the nonprofit organization following several states extending their statute-of-limitations rules. Thousands of former scouts across the n...

President Donald Trump runs his White House (and his life) by two simple principles:...

Joyce Vance tells Lawrence O'Donnell that Trump uses pardons and commutations like the ones he just granted as a means of signaling to his criminal friends that he will take care of them if they don't testify against him....

Some residents in Oregon are fed up with living under Democratic control of their state government and have launched a ballot initiative campaign to join Republican-led Idaho....

Barbara McQuade argues to Lawrence O'Donnell that Trump's new round of commutations and pardons is to desensitize "the public to this idea that corruption is not a big deal" so it'll be more palatable when Trump decides to pardon his c...

In a rare break with a prominent supporter, the senator says his "Medicare-for-all' plan is already a compromise....

State Sen. Tom Tiffany has won a Republican primary in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy in northern Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District...

North Carolina's Court of Appeals on Tuesday blocked the state's new voter ID law from taking effect, a move that will likely prevent it from being in place in time for the 2020 elections....

Whether you're interviewing for a job, running for office, or even giving a presentation in class, what you wear really does matter. For a variety of reasons, including racism, ableism, fatphobia, and other biases, this is an unfair standard and an ou...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich thanked President Trump after he was released from prison Tuesday after the president commuted his sentence....

A Justice Department spokesperson said Barr "has no plans to resign."...

His reelection bid accelerating, President Donald Trump has again seized credit for an economic turnaround, claimed record job creation and accused his predecessor of a...

Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow react with skepticism to new reporting that suggests Barr is considering resigning over Trump's tweets about DOJ investigations, believing that this is more of a public relations campaign for Barr than an actua...

The Democratic presidential race is about to enter hyper speed -- and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is currently in the driver's seat....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her supporters have been pushing online to get out their campaign's message now that the traditional media has decided that there can be no more than one lefty candidate. On Monday, Presidents Day, Warren supporters were able...

President Trump granted pardons to seven people and granted clemency to another four, including former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and a former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik....

Attorney General William Barr has told people close to him he's considering quitting his post after President Donald Trump wouldn't heed his warning to stop tweeting about Justice Department cases...

AP source: Attorney General William Barr has told people close to him he's considering quitting over Trump's tweets...

Recanvass shrinks Pete Buttigieg's lead on state delegate equivalents from 2.774 to 0.08....

Just wait until you hear about the sex cult and dirt transferring station....

Trump has severely damaged American democracy. Bloomberg would finish it off....

You can't make this stuff up: A new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll chose five Democratic candidates to test against Donald Trump in a new national poll. Elizabeth Warren, who is tied for third in the poll, wasn't one of them. Instead, the outl...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has...

Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes was tasked with locating the car of an informant who provided information on Russian intelligence to the U.S....

A top campaign adviser says Mike Bloomberg would sell the financial data and media company that bears his name if elected U.S. president...

Through pardons and tweets, Trump has directly intervened in an array of criminal matters, alarming legal experts who say his actions undermine confidence in the rule of law....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told US senators last week he has no plans to meet with President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, according to one of the senators who sat down with Zelensky....

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI): "To the extent we've been fortunate with this disease is because of its epidemiology, not because of some sort of coordinated response from the government."...

The number of COVID-19 cases reported in China is now lower than it has been since the end of January. Laboratory-tested cases peaked around Feb. 5, but now the total of all cases—both lab-confirmed and clinically diagnosed—has slipped below 2...

President Donald Trump has pardoned former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik, he announced at Joint Base Andrews on Tuesday....

Can we trust Trump to handle coronavirus? His response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014—and his recent comments—don't offer much reason for optimism....

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he's commuted the prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich....

For Mike Bloomberg, the one-way conversation with Democratic voters is about to end...

Kansas is poised to finally accept Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, through an agreement achieved by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Sen. Jim Denning, the Republican leader of the state Senate. This would be very good news for the 9% of K...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA): "He is going to get revenge. He is going to show you that there are no limits to the presidential power."...

The top intelligence community lawyer whose initial decision to block the Ukraine whistleblower complaint from reaching Congress helped set off the House impeachment inquiry, will resign from his post, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of Nati...

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg is making his debate debut as six Democrats face off in Nevada for a presidential debate that could fundamentally change the direction of the party's 2020 nomination fight...

NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray shares a sobering story on "The Beat with Ari Melber" about her students "jaded and cynical" reaction to the "prospect of justice."...

Jim Acosta's report here depicts a president utterly out of control, living completely outside reality and giving us all a taste of what is yet to come if we do not remove this man from the White House in November. After pardoning the likes of Rod Bla...

In the latest installment of "Opening Arguments", former Acting U.S. Solicitor General, Neal Katyal discusses Trump's "lawless" and "unprecedent"; pardon of his "friends" and "campaign contributors." Katyal argue...

Bloomberg built his company from scratch, and it now employs an estimated 20,000 people...

California has reversed several years of slipping sign ups on its Affordable Care Act exchange....

With the crowded Democratic field, Chris has a prediction for who can grab the most votes in the battle for the nomination....

This has been screamingly obvious since forever, or at least since Moscow Mitch McConnell stole a Supreme Court seat from President Barack Obama, but the Senate majority leader has once again confirmed that he has different rules when a Republican is pres...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is pledging to take on the NRA if he's elected president...