Newsweek is reporting that the United Nations investigation of developed countries around the world finds that poverty in the United States is now so widespread and severe, with over 40 million Americans below the poverty level and many of them living without basic sanitation or enough food and without any access to healthcare, that large parts o

Now that we've entered an election year, there is a lot of speculation about what America could look like if Donald Trump gets another term, by hook or by crook.

Doug Collins Says Democrats Love Terrorists - when It's Republics Who Really Do. Bush & Cheney used terrorism to make Cheney rich with no-bid contracts for Halliburton and to enrich their buddies among the defense contractors.

The entire crisis in the Middle East that seems to be resolving itself right now started when Donald Trump ordered the assassination of the number three official in the Iranian government.

In war and diplomacy there are basically two types of moves.

Tactical moves are efforts to accomplish small, specific things. Seize that hill, or get this tariff reduced.

Trump kicked off his re-election campaign just like Nixon with Vietnam, Reagan with Grenada, Bush 1 with Iraq, and Bush 2 with both Afghanistan and Iraq - with a war.

When Bush and Cheney decided to lie us into a war with Iraq, and take down a Sunni government, it became inevitable that Iraq, a Shia majority country, would end up with Shia control and align itself with Shia controlled Iran.

Last week in an interview Chuck Todd admitted that he has now, finally, after all these years, realized that Republicans come on his show and others specifically to tell lies and spread disinformation.

Many grassroots Democrats separated from their party in the 1990s, and the 2020 election may be the last chance to save the marriage.

Republicans in Wisconsin and Georgia are leading the way toward GOP victories in November with the go-to technique they've been using for the better part of the last 40 years: voter suppression.

Republicans have decided that when the majority of voters don't support their positions or candidates, the best way to win elections is to rig them. The Wisconsin Election Commission, as Judd Legum is reporting at popular.info, mailed out a letter with a return card to several hundred thousand Wisconsin voters.

In a time when wildlife populations around the world are crashing, endangered species tremble on the verge of extinction, and the entire web of life is at risk, the son of the President of the United States went to Mongolia and shot an endangered species, the largest sheep in the world with 6 foot horns.

When the Founding generation wrote the constitution, they were very worried about a permanent defense industry emerging.

I was oblivious to the real significance of Facebook in everyday life until the company disabled my personal, private thomhartmann account.

The leadership of the House of Representatives have introduced articles of impeachment, and soon there will be a vote in the House, and then one in the Senate. With this vote, we will find out the Republican Party institutionally is endorsing American politicians using corrupt foreign governments to manipulate American elections.