Thoms talks with Director of Rethink Trade, Lori Wallach, discussing the Trump administration's failure to revive manufacturing, and her latest, must-read piece for Foreign Affairs: The Right Way to Balance Trade.

Authoritarianism doesn’t just begin when a government embraces brutality. It steps in on cats’ feet when brutality becomes politically useful, legally routinized, and morally acceptable because a government has first declared its victims undeserving of our empathy. When average people in the bureaucracy just “do their jobs” inflicting horrors on other humans simply because they’ve been declared “the other.”

Maggie Haberman said Trump now sees himself as a great man of history.

That's the gilded ballroom sitting where the East Wing used to be, plus a helipad, a visitor screening center, an underground security complex, and a redo of Lafayette Square.

It’s been less than 24 hours, and freshly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche has already issued entirely new legal protections for President Donald Trump...

Back in the days when conservatives were so hungry for media platforms that they’d come on progressive shows, Thom used to regularly debate Wayne Allen Root. Instead of trying to convince him, though, Root has recently taken to giving Trump ideas about things to do, like stealing the election this fall.

More than five thousand sailors and Marines have been stuck on the USS Abraham Lincoln since November twenty-first. That's more than eight months at sea.

Nate Silver dropped his new midterm forecast Tuesday, and he's calling Texas lean Democrat. Let that sink in. Texas.

-- How Democrats Can Turn Trump’s Corruption Into a Political Revolution

More than a dozen Taylor Farms products that were sold at large retailers across the US are being recalled because they include jalapeño peppers that may be contaminated with salmonella. The recalled products include salsas, dips, sandwiches and more that were distributed across 26 states and sold at stores including Kroger, Target, Trader Joe’s, Walmart and Whole Foods.

From Teddy Roosevelt to Navalny and Zelenskyy, history shows that exposing corrupt elites can mobilize voters and topple entrenched power...

Donald Trump just left the door wide open to seizing control of the November elections.

Michael Tomasky writes in The New Republic that everybody's panicking over socialism polling in the high 30s.

Construction on Citadel's planned 350 Park Avenue skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan is moving forward despite billionaire founder Ken Griffin's months-long public feud with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani...

From the American Revolution to the New Deal to the Great Society, crisis has repeatedly transformed America. Could universal healthcare be next?