Just a few weeks ago, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was the most miserable man in Washington.

Hillary Clinton looked like a shoo-in to win the presidential election - and polls showed that Republicans were in serious danger of losing control of the Senate - and maybe even the House.

But today the Speaker couldn't be happier.

The corporate media is doing everything it can to normalize Trump; we can't let them.

Get ready for a media shitstorm.

Donald Trump has promised to "drain the swamp" if elected president - but if his transition team is any indication, he's already swimming in it.

The people Donald Trump has now picked to help him prepare for his move to the White House are the exact same people he railed against his entire campaign.

Well - here we are.

Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States.

That shocking reality came crashing into view yesterday when he met first with President Obama at the White House and then Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.

As public outrage has grown over the past few months about the rising cost of prescription drugs - a certain senator from Vermont has emerged as a one-man Big Pharma-wrecking machine.

I'm talking - of course - about Bernie Sanders.

Donald J. Trump's ascent to the White House is the final victory of Lewis Powell's 1971 memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (I wrote a book about this titled The Crash of 2016), and now we all need to hang on for a wild ride.

High voter turnout is a good thing for our democracy.

Long lines?

Not so much.

They're a dead giveaway of voter suppression in action, which is why everyone should be worried about what we saw this weekend in states like Ohio.

As the fallout continues over FBI director James Comey's decision to go public with the discovery of emails that may or may not be related to Hillary Clinton, the evidence is growing that significant elements within the FBI are trying to get Donald Trump elected president.

Something is brewing in the Republican Party - something that's profoundly anti-democratic and looks a lot like sedition.

After Antonin Scalia died back in February, conservatives stuck to the same basic line about the opening his death created on the Supreme Court.

There is no break from politics.

Even though the election will finally - thankfully - hopefully end next week - the next big fight in Washington has already been pencilled into the schedule.

It'll be over the Trans-Pacific Partnership - or TPP - the massive trade deal between the US and 11 other Pacific Rim nations that both major candidates for president oppose.

One week before the election and four days after the FBI director revealed that his agency had come across a set of emails that may or may not be relevant to the Clinton email case, the race for the White House is suddenly, shockingly, close.

James Comey's integrity is now seriously in question - and with just 8 days to go before election day - voters need some answers - fast.

With just a few days to go before the presidential election, things are looking pretty good for the economy.

According to new numbers out last week, it grew at a rate of 2.9 percent last quarter.

Obamacare is in trouble.

With just two weeks to go before Election Day, the White House announced Monday that premiums on the healthcare law's state-level exchanges will increase by an average of 22 percent next year.

Premiums on the federal exchanges will jump an average of 25 percent.

Yikes...

In Washington State a fierce debate has erupted over a ballot measure aimed at fighting climate change. As the reality of runaway climate change continues to sink in, the question of what do about it gets even more pressing.

We are not just dealing with the possibility of a few hotter days there - or a few nastier thunderstorms there.