Politics: Left

The war in Ukraine is among the biggest tests the EU has faced but instead of showing leadership, Olaf Scholz has floundered....

Conservatives keep saying "voter suppression" is a hysterical, liberal myth. And then one of them goes and brags about it....

The party has forced its latest victim of a prime minister into a succession of U-turns....

A new Hulu comedy takes superpowers and brings them into the real world—where average people are still pretty average, even if they can control your mind....

The president plans to name Brainard, currently vice chair of the Federal Reserve, to head the National Economic Council....

A proposal to end a decade-long attempt to seek the death penalty before a military tribunal carries political risks, but the Trump administration also decided the system failed....

The election for a swing seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court has huge policy stakes for the battleground state. Cash is pouring in, and some of the candidates have shed any pretense of judicial neutrality....

Senate Democrats returned to Washington to wield their newly expanded majority this week, but the specter of potential retirements in their ranks is already raising anxiety....

It seems like every six months another person brings this discourse back online....

How restaurant workers' own money is used to lobby against increasing their wages....

Plus, the new reality show Traitors, and the coming of the AI chat bots....

Ron DeSantis' political operation has been recruiting conservative influencers. But the personalities DeSantis is attracting have plenty of problems....

"I very much doubt Andrew will get this off the ground," a friend of Charles tells The Daily Beast. "There is no love lost between the brothers. There is no way back for Andrew."...

They just might tip the scales....

His singing brought him fame—but his real passion is teaching people to raise insects....

Trump's legal team has delayed actually arguing the facts. But now his family company is under threat of being dissolved, and he could have to pay up big....

Republicans are preparing to go after Biden in major ways. But Democrats have assembled outside groups to run interference and counterpunch....

This is not the New Yorker story you remember, as the film adaptation warps it into a trashy, absurd, and bizarre thriller....

Puck reporter Tina Nguyen joins this week's Fever Dreams to discuss George Santos and the civil war brewing between his staffers and the far-right figures he's begun to consult....

Younger workers could end up with higher taxes and poorer pensions while subsidising comfortable retirees....

At Davos, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves showed what a stable Britain that's safe for investors might look like....

The party could embrace dynamic alignment with European regulations in a bid to boost economic growth....

The party could embrace dynamic alignment with European regulations in a bid to boost economic growth....

If Keir Starmer's party wins, expect a slew of specific UK-EU treaties to be negotiated....

Bradley Moss, a national security attorney, talks with Alex Wagner about the difference in the cases of classified documents found at the properties of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Mike Pence, including the difference in how A.G. Garland will approach the...

'The Late Show' host broke down just how bizarre it was that the candy company retired their "spokescandies" just because they no longer "turned on" the Fox News star....

Gwen Keyes Fleming, former DeKalb County, Georgia district attorney, and Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talk with Alex Wagner about why Fulton County, Georgia D.A. Fani Willis asked a judge to keep the report by the special grand jury investigatin...

As a judge considers whether to release the grand jury report on the Trump election probe in Georgia, the DA suggests indictment decisions are "imminent." Meantime, classified documents were found at former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana ...

The conservative cable outlet was cut loose after the two sides failed to agree on terms, taking away a chunk of Newsmax's cable footprint....

As Jacinda Ardern makes her final public appearance as New Zealand's Prime Minister, she shares advice for her successor Chris Hipkins....

Alex Wagner looks at how a change in racist U.S. immigration policy allowed Asian immigrant communities to grow in California but discrimination and threats persisted and spiked through the Covid era, only to be compounded by the terror of recent mass sho...

The future of Social Security and Medicare are in the spotlight as Republicans take aim at the bread and butter programs baby boomers rely on. Philip Bump weighs in on the post-war generation and its grip on politics....

With 40 mass shootings so far in 2023, some have become numb to America's gun violence problem. Juanita Tolliver and Matthew Dowd talk about the dangers of doing so and why it's important to politicize gun violence....

Rupert Murdoch is a mogul who's never backed down, stockholders be damned. But now he's finally buckled, setting his succession into chaos....

Sixty years after MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell's father and Andrea Campbell's father made Supreme Court history, Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Lawrence discuss the history she made as the first Black woman to serve as Massachusetts...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada to discuss legislation she co-sponsored safeguarding the right to cross state lines to access reproductive healthcare services as House Republicans continu...

When it comes to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol and the attempt to subvert our democracy the wheels of justice are apparently turning. In the two years since the insurrection, the DOJ has made more than 950 arrests. Now critical convictions are being h...

Randy Rainbow performs a parody of "Master of the House" from Les Miserables while doing a number on the spineless Figurehead of the House Kevin McQarthy. Personally, I think that Randy was being too kind. Open thread below... read more...

The heiress and reality TV star stunned fans with the announcement on social media....

Arizonans who voted for Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in 2018 are plenty fed up with the now Independent Senator Sinema, especially the progressive and Latino activists who worked tirelessly to get her elected. This has made Sinema ripe for a Democratic challen...

Rudy Giuliani, a personal attorney for former President Donald Trump, said he is suffering a "tremendous burden" because he couldn't stop President Joe Biden from being elected. On his Sunday radio show, Giuliani complained that Biden does not...

"I personally did not think Mike Pompeo could sink any lower. But he has now surpassed my already low expectations of him," says Chris Hayes on the Trump Secretary of State's new remarks about murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi....

It was a rare moment of bipartisanship from the Fox News host, who suggested that both Joe Biden and Mike Pence should have just shredded any documents they found....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the national debt conversation: "What we say as Democrats is, 'Look, we're not going to talk about spending cuts so long as you guys are out here just talking about how to protect the billionaires and the giant corpora...

"They're going after the children," one Fox News host breathlessly warned viewers about a new power-saving function on the video game console....

The College Board said it would release a new framework for the Advanced Placement course in African American Studies blocked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis....

Most Americans don't live in Florida or California, but those states' governors are trying to nationalize politics. And that'll make America worse....