That's how Chinese analysts are now describing the United States.

Chinese analysts are scrutinizing the U.S. military. The whole world is watching our downfall with the war in Iran.

While Americans were trained to fear immigrants, trans kids, and each other, the billionaire class quietly extracted trillions from the middle class and captured the nation’s politics, media and the courts…

Chinese military analysts say America’s Iran war exposed dangerous weaknesses in U.S. power projection. Is Washington overstretched as tensions with China grow?

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District) discusses U.S. current affairs with Thom and how Fox News published an article yesterday trying to diminish her work and character.

A peer-reviewed study released yesterday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest social media platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald Trump and the GOP.

Markets and major industries are facing mounting pressure as conflict abroad and rising costs fuel concerns about a broader economic slowdown.

A reported Saudi refusal disrupted a major U.S. military plan in the Gulf, raising new questions about alliances, strategy, and American influence abroad.

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Congressman Mark Pocan discusses with Thom about the hopes of Democrats winning the majority this November and how we need to do this in order to bring back accountability in the White House.

Republicans yesterday proposed an appropriations bill that will allocate a billion dollars to pay for Trump’s Golden Epstein Dance Hall (aka “Ballroom”). Every penny of it will be borrowed and we’ll be paying interest on that money for the rest of our lifetimes unless something dramatic changes.

A major legal battle is unfolding over birthright citizenship, with critics warning the challenge could reshape constitutional rights in America.

The Middle East is on a knife's edge, and the Strait of Hormuz is the blade. Donald Trump told Fox News that Iranian forces would be "blown off the face of the Earth"

The Trump administration has escalated its bid to protect the oil industry from costly climate litigation — even after its earlier efforts faced decisive setbacks in federal court.

In a recent podcast interview with The New York Times, political science Professor Robert Pape pointed out that acceptance of political violence is today higher than it’s been in generations. Tens of millions of Americans, his research shows, are now accepting of things as extreme as assassination as a way to change politics.