Politics: Left

Last year, a coalition of anti-abortion groups represented by the right-wing legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit asking the federal court to reverse the Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of mifepristone, which is u...

Correction (3/21/23): The date of this interview has been updated....

On March 20, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on climate change which warns that "there is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all."...

Abby Grossberg, who worked as a senior booking producer on Tucker Carlson's prime time Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, said in a lawsuit against the right-wing network that the work space assigned to the show was decorated with sexist imagery an...

Whether this was an act of civil disobedience or just a random act of vandalism isn't known, but it does show a bit of imagination. Rather than just spraying the open flame, which would not have done anything, he throws the entire fire extinguisher in...

[Above: Background on the overwhelming -- and bipartisan -- passage of Ballot Prop. 211 banning large anonymous donations in Arizona. - eds.] by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror March 17, 2023 A lawsuit filed in federal court Friday aims to declare th...

Legal filings released in February and March in relation to a Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News show that the network's recently promoted senior executive Tom Lowell acknowledged Fox News let lies about Dominion go unchalleng...

A far-right QAnon conspiracy theorist and conservative group Turning Point USA are inserting themselves into Wisconsin's high-stakes Supreme Court race, set to take place early next month....

A Fox News producer is now suing the network, claiming it set her up to take a fall in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for spreading false claims about the 2020 election. The real news from this lawsuit, however, is ...

Former President Donald Trump called in to 'Pastors for Trump National Prayer Call' Monday night before his possible indictment today. Things got awkward when the host asked the one-term President to name a specific prayer he wanted to request. Su...

Fox News Digital received a leaked letter drafted by Rep. Jim Jordan and signed by Rep. Comer demanding Alvin Bragg go to Congress and testify over a possible Trump indictment. "In light of the serious consequences of your actions, we expect that you ...

Fox News is rallying to former President Donald Trump's defense amid reports that he may soon be indicted in a New York court. The network's stars have denounced the potential move as an attack on Trump's voters who are also their viewers that...

The White House press briefing brought on the stars of Ted Lasso, to discuss mental health issues, but the proceedings were constantly interrupted by White House reporter for Today News Africa, Simon Ateba, who has made a habit of yelling nonsense to the ...

Francine Fosdick asked Trump attorney Christina Bobb if the country was dealing with 'a Biden clone' as president. This is Trump's base. Nothing is too crazy to discuss, and no show is too extreme to appear on. Eric Hananoki caught this one. W...

Right-wing broadcaster Pete Santilli recently argued that the U.S. military should execute former President Barack Obama, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice if former President Donald Trump is arrested. In...

Oh, so I guess ALL the chickens are coming home to roost at Fox News. That's nice! The New York Times reported Monday (and it would be trite to say "bombshell" at this point because it's a movie, duh, see above) that a Fox News producer, A...

RSBN host Brian Glenn, who covers all things MAGA, met his match during Monday's pathetic protest held at Trump Tower. Glenn was covering the nothing-burger of a protest egged on by Trump. The Huffington Post writes , "Dismal Crowd At NYC Trump Ra...

Just ten days before the bank's collapse, Rep. Patrick McHenry, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was there collecting fat checks from their executives. Pretty much a case study for everything that is wrong with congressional politic...

Because they're gullible and stupid, they believe every last word Trump utters. Like the Jan. 6 defendants, they will learn the hard way what their deluded hobby will cost them. Via CBS News: Intelligence sources told CBS News that there's been a ...

Al Franken brings his trademark wry humor to the Daily Show news desk as this week's guest host. Via the Daily Beast: Al Franken said Monday that he wasn't expecting for his guest hosting duties on The Daily Show to coincide with the potential ind...

So after it was all over, did you see any of them speak up about banning AR-15s? And when school officials said the only way to protect the kids was armed guards in schools. they kept quiet then, too. THEY KNEW IT WAS BULLSHIT. The only way you can stop t...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent the past couple years carefully casting himself as the Republican successor to Donald Trump. He would be the younger, fresher MAGA stalwart without the baggage, at least in theory. At some point, however, that meant DeS...

On this day in 1981, REO Speedwagon went to #1 on the US singles chart with 'Keep On Loving You'. Bark Bark, Woof Woof : In defense of the oft-overused exclamation point!!! Blue Virginia : Interview with Albert Vega, Democrat Challenging Republica...

There are many reasons why white nationalist Nick Fuentes can't get laid. He has admitted to never having a relationship with a woman. Well, for one, he's a dick. He has called for burning women alive, and now he says on his podcast that women wan...

Rachel Maddow explains that while Americans and the U.S. system of government is able to function smoothly even as politicians at all levels are routinely indicted on a variety of crimes, the true danger is when that functioning justice system is attacked...

"The truth is, there's no good reason for Trump to be in any of this trouble," the late night host told viewers on Monday night....

Rachel Maddow reviews how regularly politicians at all levels of government in the United States are indicted without the overall system of government and the lives of Americans suffering any particular disruption, and argues that a potential indictment o...

A spokesperson for the former president fumed over the fiasco to The Daily Beast, calling the alleged trolls "losers."...

"Who would've ever thought that Donald Trump would be brought down a porn star?" Franken asked during his first guest appearance as host of 'The Daily Show.' "All of us, right?"...

Former Rep. Bobby Rush, a longtime African American leader in Illinois, plans to throw his support behind Paul Vallas in the Chicago mayor's race....

What if sites like Tik Tok, Facebook, Twitter (especially Musk's version of the bird app) were honest? Would they still be as popular? The answer would be unfortunately probably yes. And after Musk decided to see if he could blow up the bird app, thin...

The U.S. Capitol Police will be taking security precautions in case there are demonstrations over an indictment of former President Donald Trump....

In a 2020 interview with CBS News, Alvin Bragg, then a Democratic candidate for Manhattan district attorney, shared some thoughts about the probe into then-President Trump and his former "fixer," Michael Cohen....

Robert Costello, a former legal adviser to Cohen, alleges Cohen is lying about whether Trump knew about a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels....

Actor Jason Sudeikis and cast members of the show...

Jeff Woodke, an American aid worker, was taken from his home in Abalak, Niger, in 2016....

In part 2 of this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew looks back at the bailout of American banks during the 2007-'08 financial crisis....

For roughly eight months, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney oversaw the special purpose grand jury....