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Kellyanne Conway (AP/Evan Vucci)

"Powerful" Conway threatens a reporter

Brad Reed - Raw Story

“If you’re going to cover my personal life, then we’re welcome to do the same around here,” Conway tells a reporter

U.S. Attorney General William Barr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bill Barr has a goal: Right-wing rule

Heather Digby Parton

Barr's "criminal investigation" of the Russia probe is the fruit of a long-running far-right plan to kill democracy

(Getty/Salon)

New China trade deal looks familiar

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport

Team Trump blinked and gave the Chinese what they wanted

Vice President Mike Pence (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

A powerful group's plans for Mike Pence

Anne Nelson

The Council for National Policy, a major booster of Pence's career, brought crucial evangelical votes to Trump

Teachers face strict moral demands

Kyle Greenwalt - The Conversation

What it means to be a good teacher has changed over time, along with views on what constitutes appropriate behavior

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listening to President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Ex-student loan chief: Cancel the debt

Igor Derysh

Trump's top student loan official resigns — and immediately calls for ditching "fundamentally broken" loan system

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden (Getty images/Salon)

Biden's campaign may need Super PAC

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams

With far less cash than Sanders, Warren or Buttigieg, Biden's backers want him to break his super-PAC vow

A picture taken on July 4, 2019 shows bees collecting nectar on a sunflower in a field in Weisskirchen, Germany. (Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty Images)

How Girl Scouts are saving wild bees

Rachel Ramirez - Grist

The U.S. has more than 4,000 wild bee species, and 40 percent of them are now facing extinction

(AP)

No Bonnen reelection after scandal

Cassandra Pollock

By Tues. morning, more than 30 House Republicans had either called for the speaker's resignation or pulled support

U.S. President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, speaks before the swearing-in of Rex Tillerson as 69th secretary of state in the Oval Office of the White House on February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump admin violated its ethics pledge

Derek Kravitz - ProPublica

A government report showed inappropriate actions by government employees, lobbyists and former business clients

Rats in a University of Richmond lab have learned to drive in little cars. (Kelly Lambert/University of Richmond)

Lab rats relaxed after driving tiny cars

Nicole Karlis

Surprising results in driver rats vs. passenger rats may have implications for the future of self-driving cars

Homemade hot chocolate with cinnamon in enamel mug (Getty Images)

Cracking the City Bakery chocolate code

Mary Elizabeth Williams

New York institution The City Bakery is closed. I'm keeping it alive in my kitchen, trying to replicate this drink

The Mueller Report Graphic Novel (Shannon Wheeler)

Mueller Report graphic novel sneak peek

Ashlie D. Stevens

Those who found the 448-document too daunting, here's an illustrated version updated with every new development

President Donald Trump arrives for an event to speak with Jessica Meir and Christina Koch as they conduct the first all-female spacewalk, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump has no regrets about "scum" swipe

Shira Tarlo

GOP members who won't pledge their loyalty to Trump "deserve strong language like that," the White House says

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, on Facebook's impact on the financial services and housing sectors. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AOC confronts Zuck over lies on Facebook

Igor Derysh

Ocasio-Cortez also asks why Facebook partnered with "a publication well-documented with ties to white supremacists"

Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) speaks during a news conference on April 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. House Democrats unveiled new letters to the Attorney General, HHS Secretary, and the White House demanding the production of documents related to Americans health care in the Texas v. United States lawsuit. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Katie Hill denies relationship with aide

Igor Derysh

Freshman Democrat denies relationship with staffer after conservative site publishes leaked nude photos

Nat Wolff and Alexander Skarsgard, "The Kill Team" (A24)

The Kill Team: Atrocities sans insight

Gary M. Kramer

Alexander Skarsgård shines in Dan Krauss' narrative remake of his documentary of what it means to be "army strong"

The VIew (ABC/The View)

McCain rips "wannabe" TV star Republican

Shira Tarlo

McCain compares the Republicans who broke into a closed-door hearing to Democrats who held a sit-in for gun control

Donald Trump; Andrew Napolitano (Getty/Tom Brenner/Aaron P. Bernstein)

Fox judge slams Trump's "dangerous" move

Brad Reed - Raw Story

Trump complained about the “phony emoluments clause” after he was forced to cancel plans to host the G7 at his club

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks during a press conference alongside House Republicans on Capitol Hill on October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. The press conference called for transparency regarding the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)

GOP once approved of "secret" hearings

Igor Derysh

GOP lawmakers stormed a secure facility on Capitol Hill in protest this week. They seem to have forgotten history

Flanked by about two dozen House Republicans, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. Rep. Gaetz held the press conference to call for transparency in the impeachment inquiry. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

GOP thinks its voters are idiots

Amanda Marcotte

Republicans' cosplay protest was based on a largely correct principle: Their voters will swallow anything for Trump

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross walks into the East Room of the White House before a news conference with President Trump and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Probe launched into Ross' use of email

Shira Tarlo

The administration says it has "become aware of a potential unauthorized deposition" of Commerce Department records

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Giuliani searches for defense attorney

Igor Derysh

Just days after parting with his lawyer and declaring innocence, Rudy told CNN he is looking for representation

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) (AP/Elise Amendola)

Impeachment: Did witnesses coordinate?

Bob Brigham

"That’s why at this initial phase we’re having it in a close-hold fashion," Swalwell tells MSNBC's Chris Hayes

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