Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns LONDON - Cambridge Analytica assigned dozens of non-U.S. citizens to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to ­Republican candidates in 2014, according to three former workers for the data firm, even as an attorney warned executives to abide by U.S. laws ( Read more... )

Mueller charges 13 Russians with 2016 election 'information warfare'A new indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller charges that 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities illegally mounted an "information warfare" scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election that favored then-candidate Donald Trump and involved "unwitting" U.S. ( Read more... )

Progressives want education, health care, and housing for everyone. And we’re the close-minded ones?

By Katha PollittIf I have to read one more article blaming liberal condescension toward the red states and the white working class for the election of Trump, I’m moving to Paris, France. These pieces started coming out even before the election and ( Read more... )

We’re expected to understand the rage of Trump’s supporters but not the anguish of the 66 million who voted against him.Lately I’ve seen several articles by both centrist and center-right pundits, none of them friends of Donald Trump, warning that we should be wary of removing the president from office because it will anger his already very angry ( Read more... )

It is difficult to tally how many conversations I have had with someone making extreme, paranoid and hateful remarks about Hillary Clinton. Often the accuser’s eyes open wide, spittle begins to form at the corner of his lips, and he declares that the world’s greatest monster is the former senator and secretary of state ( Read more... )

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Media Sets the Bar so Low that El Presidente Naranja Will Have to Limbo Dance on His Way Out. Chris Hayes Sucks.

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Media Fawn Over Trump’s Success at Saying Words in Semi-Coherent FashionWhat came to be known as the “expectations game” during the George W. Bush years was wielded with notorious cynicism. The assumption behind this game in those ( Read more... )

Orange Idiot to Fiddle While Wall Street Burns...

Making America Broke Again: Trump & The Inevitable Financial Crisis
Trump can either ‘bite the bullet’ now if he really wants to improve the American economy or he can ‘kick the can down the road’ like his predecessors have, noted financial commentator Peter Schiff tells MintPress.
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Experimental Four Eight Year Reality TV Show Has Negative Effect on Nation. Vending Machines Stealing Our Jobs!

Don’t Side With Neoliberalism in Opposing Trump
In opposing Trump, we must not slip into defending neoliberalism.During the Bernie Sanders campaign I heard a high-level official give a powerful speech blasting the Trans-Pacific ( Read more... )

Benevolent Oligarchs to Select America's Next Celebrity Leader.

Are Democrats Still the Lesser Evil?Since Election Day, it has felt as if American politics is unfolding in a dream world; the old moorings have gone missing and nothing any longer makes sense ( Read more... )