Jeff Flake really likes to make it seem like he thinks Donald Trump isn't a true conservative. And then he goes on to approve of pretty much anything Trump does. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
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Did you know that we once had a Republican president who expanded Social Security? Maybe today's Republicans should listen to what he had to say about the program.
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Saudi Arabia’s [has a] long history of targeting dissidents. Just weeks before the ban was lifted on women driving in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government arrested several of the country’s most prominent feminist activists, including women who had been campaigning for decades for the right to drive.
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The recent disappearance and likely assassination of Jamal Khashoggi only underscores how urgent it has become for the United States to redefine our relationship with Saudi Arabia and end our support for the war in Yemen.
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The Republican-controlled Senate voted to pass a sweeping budget measure—one criticized as both "despicable" and "horrific" for providing massive giveaways to corporations and the super-rich while eviscerating funding for social programs, healthcare, education, and affordable housing.
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“But what we have never had is a president of the United States who uses lying and untruth as a basic method to promote his policies, his beliefs and his way of approaching the American people and engaging in the world,” he contended.
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Saudi leaders are treading a fine line between societal reform and political repression … the country’s public prosecutor said any online content that “disrupts public order” would be subject to new punishments.
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Originally aired on MSNBC on 20. October 2018 This morning on AM Joy, Joy Reid asked Greg Palast if the voter suppression tactics were worse this year.
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After a major debate, Democrats have voted on a key progressive demand after the 2016 campaign: to vastly reduce the power of super-delegates in choosing the party’s presidential nominee.
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People of color are running for state and national office, and the country has responded with the most American of traditions: by attacking them in very racist ways. Some attacks are coded. Others are clear.
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The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have been friends since 1945, when [FDR] met with Saudi Arabia’s founding king, Abdulaziz … to strike the deal of the century. Their alliance has held for more than seven decades, even after 9/11, when 15 of the 19 hijackers who brought down the Twin Towers turned out to be Saudi nationals.
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In his book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale professor Jason Stanley warns about the dangers of normalizing fascist politics … “What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable ...”
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“I Love You, America” host calls out Republicans over voter suppression.
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… after passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut they insisted would pay for itself and then some, Republicans … blame social services like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security for exploding deficits and debt and insist that such “entitlements,” sadly, have got to go.
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Dozens of black senior citizens in rural Georgia were ordered off a bus bound for the polls after county officials said the event constituted prohibited “political activity.”
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An Obama-era rule designed to help students cheated by for-profit colleges get relief on their education debt finally took effect Tuesday after efforts by the Trump administration to block it. A federal judge ordered immediate implementation of the rule, delayed last year by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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A long-delayed federal rule intended to protect student loan borrowers who were defrauded by their schools went into effect on Tuesday, after a judge rejected an industry challenge and the Education Department ended efforts to stall it any longer.
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The law says that ISPs like Comcast may not engage in interconnection practices "that have the purpose or effect of evading the prohibitions" of [net neutrality]. In other words, Comcast can't block or slow down traffic at interconnection points, and it can't make paid interconnection the only viable option for reaching Comcast customers.
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In a 50-50 vote, Republicans defeated a Democratic measure to stop the return of denying health coverage for pre-existing conditions. The measure was part of a Democratic attempt to bring healthcare to the forefront of the campaign for control of Congress in November.
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According to a new report … the government’s own data indicates that the campaign was far more expansive — and far more destructive — than previously acknowledged.
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