Thom talks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.)’s loss in Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District Democratic primary and how it could affect the political debate over Social Security as Congress faces a projected 2032 funding shortfall.

During a Sunday appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Blanche was pressed by host Kristen Welker on whether the Trump administration would pay Jan. 6 rioters. Blanche has repeatedly said that the anti-weaponization fund, which critics worried would pay Jan. 6 rioters, is dead, but Welker asked if they could still get payments.

America’s emergency oil supply just fell below 300 million barrels for the first time since it was filled in the early 1980s.

President Trump told Fox News on Monday he's ready to attack Oman, a country that's been a US ally for nearly two centuries.

In today’s Daily Take, there’s a reason everything is getting so expensive and inflation seems intractable, and it goes way beyond just Trump’s stupid war-of-choice in Iran.

Thom talks with veteran war correspondent, Phil Ittner, about how Russian President Vladimir Putin just issued a fresh warning to NATO, accusing the alliance of expanding its military presence in the Asia-Pacific and creating new threats for Moscow...

Thom talks with lawyer and political writer, Sabrina Haake, about how Trump is tearing up pristine habitats in Big Bend to reward a big political donor. Under a $1.7 billion federal contract, which was strongly opposed by Texas locals regardless of party affiliation, Southwest Valley started bulldozing for profit.

Thom talks with former youth pastor and author, John Pavlovitz, about how he believes that the only way we can help retain our sanity and stay tethered to our humanity is to not let this parasitic regime destroy us and to refuse to be swallowed up by the cancer of cruelty our leadership has released into our bloodstream.

After appearing to back off earlier this year, President Donald Trump this week renewed his threats to seize Greenland. A Saturday report that a Texas oil company with ties to Trump had begun preparing to drill in the Arctic territory without permission has raised fresh concerns that his push for control of the island may already be moving beyond rhetoric.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) revelled in attacking Democratic Party U.S. Senate nominee in Michigan Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday and went so far as to accuse progressives of thinking that electric cars don't rely on fossil fuels for charging.

Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of their felonious lives. Last week we learned that Capital One Bank closed over 300 Trump Organization accounts back in 2021 because, they said, their internal fraud department had flagged illegal money-laundering activity. But on who’s behalf?

Are Republicans finally admitting their economic policies failed the middle class?

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.