Politics: Left

Roberts, used to operating away from the cameras, will be in the national spotlight as never before, presiding over the Senate trial of President Donald Trump before an audience of millions....

Kansas lawmakers expect this year to have their most serious debate so far on medical marijuana...

Plaintiffs suing the company say they created unique passwords but were hacked anyway....

Hillary Rodham Clinton has advice for Democratic voters faced with an unsettled field of presidential contenders: pick a winner. Clinton, who won a majority of vote in 2016 election but lost to GOP candidate Donald Trump in the electoral tally, made her c...

Zimbabwe police have raided the offices of the country's main opposition party, and a spokesman says the officers were looking for machetes...

At a town hall in New Hampshire, a group of protesters interrupted former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg's remarks to voice their displeasure that Buttigieg received money from someone who owns an oil company....

On January 16, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a legal opinion that found President Donald Trump broke the law when he froze congressionally approved military aid for Ukraine to pressure the country's president to publicly announce...

The rapper's surprise album, Music to Be Murdered By, features the harrowing gun control anthem at its center....

The Washington Post's Aaron Blake will be taking your questions on impeachment and the 2020 election. Join us live on Friday at 12 p.m. ET....

Parnas implicates Trump, Pence, Barr, Perry...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Washington Post tells us , wants a "drama-free" impeachment trial, and got what he wanted out of the first day with "a Senate looking somber and serious [...] A Senate that might, as he put it a day ...

Picking the most controversial member of Donald Trump's expanding legal defense team is surprisingly difficult....

Not with Trump, not with the Green New Deal, and not with the Democrats running for president...

Pompeo vows to 'evaluate' possible surveillance of ex-Ukraine envoy...

The Senate impeachment trial is set to begin on Tuesday in Washington....

The island's earthquakes are its latest manmade disaster....

The rapper's "Darkness" video steps into the brain of the Las Vegas shooter....

If this recursive way of thinking about politics captures our imagination, it will imperil America's future....

If this recursive way of thinking about politics captures our imagination, it will imperil America's future....

Ukraine's president has rejected the resignation of prime minister caught on tape disparaging him...

[Above: Senator Pat Leahy says, "I was around to watch Ken Starr prosecute a president in the weakest impeachment case in history, and now he's back to defend a president in the strongest impeachment case in history. That's their choice. But i...

It's a machine for misunderstanding other people's ideas and identities. How do you even organize that?...

That team includes Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer and a guy who was for impeachment before he was against it....

A previously confidential report obtained by NPR continued to find horrific abuses at California's Adelanto Detention Center—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility operated by private prison profiteer GEO Group—including keeping d...

President Donald Trump has paid tribute to the Louisiana State University football team, college football's national champions...

"She didn't win that seat. I think that's important."...

The Ways and Means Committee first brought the tax returns case last July....

It's not just about marching anymore — it's about voting....

On January 17, CNN's Kaitlan Collins and Pamela Brown reported that attorneys Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz, and Robert Ray are all expected to join President Donald Trump's legal team for his impeachment trial in the United States Senate. The Washin...

Trump's close to a truth, though only accidentally....

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

The Washington Post's Aaron Blake will be taking your questions on impeachment and the 2020 election. Join us live on Friday at 12 p.m. ET....

The Fight for $15 campaign and the SEIU are launching a door-knocking operation in Michigan and Wisconsin to target black and brown communities that saw drops in voter turnout in 2016....

CNN reported on wildfires raging across Queensland and New South Wales. The article quoted Queensland Fire and Emergency Services official Andrew Sturgess, who called the fires "an historic event" and "an omen if you will, a warning of the fir...

Susan Collins 'likely' to support motion to call witnesses in impeachment trial...

One Senate Republican stands alone in voting against the USMCA trade deal....

History shows Chief Justice John Roberts could cast tie-breaking votes at Trump's impeachment trial...

I've now had my morning corn flakes and . . . I still have nothing to say about Ken Starr. He's certainly bucking for Sean Hannity's title as most egregious partisan hack of the Trump era, though I'm not sure if this move quite gets him in...

"He knew my positions and he asked me to present those arguments [on the Senate floor]," Alan Dershowitz told The Daily Beast....

When Golden Girl #BettyWhite is trending on Twitter, it has the same effect as when #RBG is trending: "Oh no!" is the universal response. But it's okay, it's Betty's birthday! She's 98: Don't everybody have a heart attack It is...

Donald Trump's impeachment defense team got several additions Friday morning and there is SO MUCH to say. Let's start with the new names: Pam Bondi, Alan Dershowitz, Jane Raskin, Robert Ray, Ken Starr. A few of these stand out, to say the least. B...

Mika and Ginny Brzezinski talk about their new book 'Comeback Careers,' which offers advice on reinventing your career after the age of 40....

Both. But it's also a fight about how to govern....

History shows Chief Justice Roberts could cast tie-breaking votes at Trump's impeachment trial, including for witnesses that Democrats are demanding....

Rachel to Lawrence: Lev Parnas put Bolton, Pompeo, and others on witness list...

The men who helped Jeffrey Epstein walk free in a sweetheart plea deal—and allegedly abuse again—are now on Trump's high-powered legal team for his impeachment trial....

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ), who faces a tough election fight in 2020, took a campaign victory lap Thursday after calling......

I am awake and I just learned that Donald Trump has hired a new lawyer for his impeachment trial. His new lawyer is Ken Starr. I shall now eat breakfast and try to process this. brb....