Saturday, millions of us affirmed the foundation of the common good. Across America, people who never before participated in a demonstration showed their solidarity: with immigrants being targeted by Trump, with current and former public officials whom Trump is prosecuting, with the students and uni...| Alternet.org
WASHINGTON — The Republican chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee raised eyebrows by breaking with GOP orthodoxy when he told Raw Story federal courts are an essential check on the White House during this ongoing government shutdown.While citing Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) and his sponsors...| Alternet.org
On Thursday afternoon, October 9, the news broke that New York State Attorney General Letitia James had been indicted for bank fraud by a grand jury in the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment came only one day after former FBI Director James Comey pleaded ...| Alternet.org
A federal grand jury formally indicted former FBI Director James Comey Thursday evening on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Comey is now the first high‑ranking government official to face criminal charges linked to President Donald Trump’s lo...| Alternet.org
The Washington Post's editorial board says that President Donald Trump's Supreme Court strategy when it comes to defending his tariffs is to dare the justices to defy him and make the case "about himself as much as possible."The president, reports the Post, announced Wednesday that he intends to att...| Alternet.org
A Truth Social message posted by President Donald Trump on September 20 urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to take action against former FBI director James Comey was meant to be a private message to Bondi, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing officials familiar with the matter. In the p...| Alternet.org
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Thursday indicted former National Security Advisor John Bolton on 18 felony counts. And while Bolton's charging document is meatier than the recent indictments against two of Trump's other political opponents, one prominent legal expert poked several...| Alternet.org
President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk's rapid efforts to curb government spending is likely to disrupt the economic machinery that shaped contemporary Washington, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has dismissed thousands of federal wor...| Alternet.org
Dave Nershi was finalizing a report he’d worked on for months when an ominous email appeared in his inbox.Nershi had worked as a general engineer for the Internal Revenue Service for about nine months. He was one of hundreds of specialists inside the IRS who used their technical expertise — Nershi’s...| Alternet.org
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is now the third prominent opponent of President Donald Trump to face criminal charges in as many weeks. But one former federal prosecutor is highlighting one key difference between Bolton's case and the other two cases against Trump's political adversari...| Alternet.org
After President Donald Trump returned to the White House almost nine months ago, his administration carried out an aggressive campaign to downsize a range of federal government agencies. And it did so with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was led by Tesla/SpaceX/X.co...| Alternet.org
I recently had a minor health scare — not unusual when you’re pushing 80. Everything is fine, at least for now. But it got me thinking. Trump is 10 days older than me. He doesn’t look the model of robust health. Even though we’re almost the same age, Trump has one big health problem I don’t have: hi...| Alternet.org
Wall Street's reliance on the trade move that they have deemed "Trump Always Chickens Out" aka TACO is starting to make investors worried as the move, according to Axios, is becoming riskier.Although the TACO move on tariff threats has been "keeping stocks afloat even as trade tensions with China he...| Alternet.org
Digital ballot preservation is the future of election protection.| Alternet.org
Political activist David Hogg is facing a pretty clear conflict of interest. He’s part of a grassroots organization that will try primarying Democrats out of office in the coming congressional elections. He’s also the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The DNC does many things, but ...| Alternet.org
It’s even worse than I’d imagined.Trump's been “flooding the zone” with so many outrageous (and often illegal) initiatives that many people are overwhelmed, demoralized, and just plain freaked out. That’s the intent. This morning, a woman I didn’t know was about to pass me on the sidewalk and then s...| Alternet.org
— Let’s just call these mass firings at Justice and the FBI what they are. Donald Trump is a lawless man who is ripping apart the FBI to turn it into a banana republic-style group of enforcing thugs who will only do his will. They will spare his friends and persecute his enemies. We’ve seen this ove...| Alternet.org
Former President Donald Trump is making a campaign stop today in Georgia — a swing state he narrowly lost in 2020 thanks to high Black voter turnout for Democrats. But in 2024, Trump aims to peel off Black voters in his third bid for the White House. One columnist is crying foul on what she views as...| Alternet.org
At a Friday night rally in South Carolina, former President Donald Trump appeared to imply that the majority of African Americans are criminals.While speaking to a crowd at the Black Conservative Federation in Columbia, South Carolina, Trump suggested that his four separate criminal indictments acro...| Alternet.org
During a huge rally with her new presidential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in Philadelphia on Tuesday, August 6, Vice President Kamala Harris cautioned supporters that she is still running an "underdog" campaign against GOP nominee Donald Trump. Harris' message to supporters was clear: Be ...| Alternet.org
In her new book "A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy," former Christian fundamentalist Tia Levings describes her negative experiences in the far-right Quiverfull movement — which teaches that Christian women are obligated to have as many babies as possible and be totally submiss...| Alternet.org
In the wake of yet another report Clarence Thomas was gifted yet another undisclosed, expensive vacation by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, this time a 2010 trip with his wife Ginni Thomas from Hawaii to New Zealand via the billionaire’s private jet, some legal experts are calling for the U.S. Supreme Co...| Alternet.org
First, a bit of personal history.Two weeks before October 19, 1987, I warned publicly that “in two weeks, the stock market will lose 20 percent of its value.” Then, on October 19, 1987, the S&P; 500 had the biggest one-day fall in its history — dropping 20 percent.I was immediately deluged with lett...| Alternet.org
Donald Trump's speech during his Saturday, August 3 rally in Atlanta, Georgia did not land well — with many Republicans. The former president took aim — once again — at Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for their refusal to overturn the 2020 election in...| Alternet.org
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday conducted a live interview at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Chicago, Illinois, and faced tough questions that appear to have caught him off guard.Prior to the interview, Trump was more than an hour late to his schedu...| Alternet.org
Editor's note: This article has been updated to include a response from Fox News stating that Kilmeade said "college sorority" instead of "colored sorority," along with tweets from Black journalists disputing Fox's explanation. The headline has also been updated.Fox News host Brian Kilmeade recently...| Alternet.org
President Donald Trump is playing a dangerous game as he continues to provoke the wrath of his MAGA supporters with unfounded claims of voter fraud. To make matters worse, the president has embarked on an even more disturbing path by giving his supporters a false sense of hope that he could be deeme...| Alternet.org
I hear it frequently on my radio/TV program: Americans are baffled about what’s happened to Donald Trump.He used to seem so formidable, a very real threat to American democracy, the pal of dictators around the world. Now even Putin is dissing him, cutting the very prisoner deal with President Biden ...| Alternet.org
