Something is deeply broken at the FBI  —  John Podesta was chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.  —  The more we learn about the Russian plot to sabotage Hillary Clinton's campaign and elect Donald Trump, and the failure of the FBI to adequately respond, the more shocking it gets.

Trump keeps reveling in election win at Pennsylvania rally  —  HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump's barnstorming tour across the states that won him the White House continues to feature far more taunts of triumph than notes of healing after a bruising election.

Read Peter Beinart and you'll vote Donald Trump  —  His reflexive reaction to my involvement in the Trump candidacy lays bare how dangerous the Jewish left is to the State of Israel.  —  The writer serves as the President of American Friends of Bet El.  He is a practicing trial lawyer …

Roy Cooper threatens to sue as legislature moves to secure more power  —  RALEIGH  —  Legislative Republicans clashed fiercely with Gov.-elect Roy Cooper Thursday as the House and Senate voted to sharply limit his appointment powers - and Cooper vowed to sue them over any law he deems unconstitutional.

Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?  —  Donald J. Trump's election has raised a question that few Americans ever imagined asking: Is our democracy in danger?  With the possible exception of the Civil War, American democracy has never collapsed; indeed, no democracy as rich or as established as America's ever has.

The Impending Collapse Of The Global Warming Scare  —  Over the past three decades, the environmental movement has increasingly hitched its wagon to exactly one star as the overwhelming focus of the cause, namely “climate change.”  Sure, issues of bona fide pollution like smog and untreated sewage …

Joe and Mika Defend Themselves Against the Haters  —  The Morning Joe hosts talk access to Donald Trump, ratings, and their critics.  —  Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were all spooled up when I sat down with them in a cramped green room on the first day of December after they had taped …

Trump is going to be mad when he hears what his appointees think about the TPP  —  His top economic and foreign policy advisers love it (as do his other advisers).  —  Donald Trump ran for president on a platform of, among other things, strident opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership …

‘Nobody Is Getting Fooled!’:  Face-Off Between Tucker Carlson, Newsweek Writer Goes Off the Rails  —  Fox News' Tucker Carlson faced off with Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald tonight and it didn't take long for things to blow up.  —  Right off the bat, Carlson made it clear …

What gave us Donald Trump is what gave us Dylann Roof.  —  On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump took the stage at his eponymous tower in New York City and announced his bid for the White House.  His message was clear.  “The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everyone else's problems,” Trump said.

On Climate Change, Who Will Censure the Censors?  —  The Department of Energy has balked at a request from the Trump transition team to provide the names of all department employees or contractors who attended UN global climate talks in the last five years.  —  “We are going to respect …

At the center of the pitch for Tillerson: Richard Cheney and Marco Rubio  —  At the start of the week, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) seemed bent on opposing the nomination of Rex Tillerson for secretary of state.  —  By the end of it, Rubio had heard directly from former vice president Richard B. Cheney …

The biggest Pinocchios of 2016  —  It's time for our annual roundup of the biggest Pinocchios of the year.  —  Just before the presidential election, we highlighted the most outlandish statements of the campaign.  This list is limited to claims we checked in 2016.