‘Nothing Less Than a Civil War’: These White Voters on the Far Right See Doom Without Trump  —  Deeply conservative, they organize online and outside the Republican Party apparatus, engaging in more explicit versions of the chest-beating seen at the president's rallies.

Pelosi gets under Trump's skin on impeachment  —  President Trump has made attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a theme of his holiday break at his Mar-a-Lago resort.  —  Trump's comments suggest he is lingering on impeachment and that Pelosi's central role in it is very much on his mind going into 2020.

A Gangster in the White House  —  Amid a two-day binge of post-Christmas rage-tweeting, President Donald Trump retweeted the name of the CIA employee widely presumed to be the whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal.  On Thursday night, December 26, Trump retweeted his campaign account …

Fed study finds Trump tariffs backfired  —  President Donald Trump's strategy to use import tariffs to protect and boost U.S. manufacturers backfired and led to job losses and higher prices, according to a Federal Reserve study released this week.  —  “We find that the 2018 tariffs …

The Secrets of Jewish Genius  —  It's not about having higher I.Q.s.  —  An eminent Lithuanian rabbi is annoyed that his yeshiva students devote their lunch breaks to playing soccer instead of discussing Torah.  The students, intent on convincing their rav of the game's beauty, invite him to watch a professional match.

UN Moves Towards Handing Dictatorships Power to Control the Internet  —  The United Nations wants to hand power to dictatorial regimes like China to control the Internet, prompting fears of a massive new free speech purge.  —  The General Assembly has approved a resolution sponsored by China …

SHOCK VIDEO: Man scales 30-foot border wall — in 23 seconds!  —  A real-life Spiderman lives in Mexico.  —  A migrant scaled a new 30-foot section of the border wall with relative ease recently.  —  Watch: … The photo spoke Spanish throughout the video, which shows the man scaling …

Ivanka Trump might leave White House if father wins 2020  —  President Trump's adviser and daughter Ivanka Trump signaled in a new interview that she could leave the White House if her father is reelected in 2020.  —  Asked in a CBS interview whether she would remain in the administration …

Is ‘Dixie Highway’ racist?  The debate is growing … A movement to rename Dixie Highway — for some a painful reminder of a tragic, racist past — might be gaining steam in Broward County.  —  The argument is being made by one of Broward County's youngest elected officials after she heard of a similar effort in Miami-Dade.

In China's Crackdown on Muslims, Children Have Not Been Spared  —  In Xinjiang the authorities have separated nearly half a million children from their families, aiming to instill loyalty to China and the Communist Party.  —  HOTAN, China — The first grader was a good student and beloved by her classmates …

Trump's stock market rally is very good, but still lags Obama and Clinton  —  U.S. stocks are closing out a terrific year and President Trump loves it.  He's bragged about the stock market hitting record highs six times this week alone on Twitter.  —  On Friday, be boasted …

The Public Option Is Politically Superior to M4A — But Only As a Sound Bite  —  The vast majority of Americans believe that every U.S. citizen has a right to quality, affordable health care, and that it is the federal government's job to uphold that right.  —  But roughly 70 percent …

US mass killings hit new high in 2019, most were shootings  —  The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members including his infant daughter.  Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia.

Baltimore needs a Lamar Jackson-like figure to save it  —  Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has electrified the city and its citizens — along with the rest of the nation — by showing unrivaled skills and making historic records as a National Football League player and leader.

Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts  —  Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”

How Ralph Northam came back from the political dead  —  THE HISTORY of U.S. politics is full of second chances — of scandal-scarred, disgraced and irredeemable public figures staging improbable comebacks — but few back-from-the-dead narratives have been as swift and sure-footed as the one Virginia …

Where is the Center?  —  Listen 50 min MORE  —  Who is the center?  Are there swing voters anymore, and what do they want?  How did Donald Trump succeed at appealing at enough of the center to win the 2016 election, and what kind of candidate do Democrats need to pick to win the center back over?