Noam Chomsky

• ‘Never Trumper’: President unleashes on Pence aide after she testifies about ‘inappropriate’ Ukraine pressure
  President Donald Trump on Sunday lashed out at an adviser to Vice President Mike Pence after she testified that the president put “inappropriate” pressure on Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. “Tell…
  David Edwards
• Pence adviser told House Intel Committee that Trump’s phone call to Ukrainian president was ‘unusual and inappropriate’
  Jennifer Williams, a Special Adviser on Europe and Russia issues for Vice President Mike Pence’s foreign policy team, told congressional investigators that she viewed President Donald Trump’s July 25th phone…
  Matthew Rozsa
• Deval Patrick and Mike Bloomberg are not the answer for Democrats. Committing to a coherent set of progressive principles is
  Dan Solomon of Texas Monthly neatly summed up two key findings highlighted in the New York Times’ Nov. 1 Iowa poll this way: “[M]ajorities of Iowa voters want a moderate, common-ground…
  Paul Rosenberg
• Chris Wallace crushes GOP Whip Steve Scalise’s twisted defense of Trump
  House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) struggled on Sunday to defend President Donald Trump’s alleged attempt to bribe the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. During…
  David Edwards
• Director Michael Lehmann explains why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today’s ‘good Heathers’
  Ithink it just comes down to this: Who doesn’t want to kill their friends sometimes? All I know is that on a brisk spring evening in 1989, my pal Carolyn…
  Mary Elizabeth Williams
• Why Trump’s disdain for Ukraine matters
  Watching the first two days of the House impeachment inquiry’s public hearings, what struck me once again is the utter contempt Donald Trump has for other sovereign nations and fellow…
  Michael Winship
• Ralph Nader: What are the Democrats waiting for? Trump is the most impeachable tyrant in the country’s history — hands down
  Amid the worst Republican President and Republican Party in modern times, the Democrats are playing the politics of low expectations. This is not the time for Democrats to be in…
  Ralph Nader
• With impeachment, Trump has lost control of the news cycle –- and he’s not handling it well
  Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least…
  Joshua Holland
• We’re watching the same impeachment hearings, but seeing vastly different TV shows
  “Are we watching the same show?” Let me tell you, critics love this timeworn retort from readers or other media types who disagree with something they’ve said or written about…
  Melanie McFarland
• How Democratic women drove the 2018 blue wave
  After Hillary Clinton lost to a talking yam with criminal tendencies in 2016, a number of people got antsy about the idea that the country was really ready yet to…
  Amanda Marcotte