Warren to release plan detailing how she intends to finance "Medicare for All" in coming weeks

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls are participating in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Warren to release plan detailing how she intends to finance “Medicare for All” in coming weeks

Shira Tarlo

She has been criticized for dodging questions on whether her health care plan would raise taxes on the middle-class

10/21/2019 10:31 EDT

The impeachment of Donald Trump: Here’s how it works — assuming anything still works

Matthew Rozsa

Will Trump be removed from office? Well, it's never happened. But here's the procedure, and the likely charges

10/21/2019 07:00 EDT

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses Bernie Sanders: He won’t “abandon the working class”

Matthew Rozsa

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Bernie Sanders, reflecting on how he has resisted big money pressure in Congress

10/20/2019 15:45 EDT

Mick Mulvaney admits that Trump “still considers himself to be in the hospitality business”

Matthew Rozsa

Trump's acting chief of staff told "Fox News Sunday" that the president is still running his businesses in office

10/20/2019 14:00 EDT

Pell Grants are getting their due in the 2020 campaign

Donald E. Heller

College affordability has become a critical issue in the 2020 election

10/20/2019 13:30 EDT

Democratic presidential candidates (L-R) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg at the start of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls are participating in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Beyond those dumb debates: To win, Democrats must reframe the discussion about America’s future

Paul Rosenberg

To win elections and reshape America's future, Democrats must embrace an inclusive, progressive national narrative

10/20/2019 12:00 EDT

President Donald Trump comes out of the Oval Office for his departure from the White House on September 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Extorting Ukraine is bad enough, but Trump has done much worse

Rebecca Gordon

Trump is a threat not just to the American people, or to the rule of law, but to the whole human species

10/19/2019 14:59 EDT

Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind., Mayor, Pete Buttigieg (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Buttigieg steps up his game, but…

Ryan O'Connell

Can the South Bend mayor bridge the racial divide to advance to the top tier of Democratic Party nomination?

10/19/2019 07:29 EDT

Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Fox News leads cleanup job after Mick Mulvaney acknowledges Ukraine quid pro quo

Shira Tarlo

"You don't need a chief of staff's idiotic interpretation of things," Trump loyalist Sean Hannity said on the radio

10/18/2019 13:15 EDT

Florida columnist slams Marco Rubio for being a Trump apologist: “Grow a spine or find a conscience”

Alex Henderson

Many Republicans are terrified at the prospect of facing a primary challenge if they say anything critical of Trump

10/18/2019 11:11 EDT

White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announces that the G7 will be held at Trump National Doral, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republicans blast Mick Mulvaney’s admission of quid pro quo in Ukraine scandal

Shira Tarlo

"You don't hold up foreign aid that we had appropriated for a political initiative," GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski says

10/18/2019 10:59 EDT

US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry delivers a statement after signing an agreement with Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian counterparts on strengthening energy cooperation between the US and the Baltic States during a meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, on October 6, 2019. - The United States and Baltic states on October 6, 2019 agreed to beef up cooperation to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid. (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Energy Secretary Rick Perry to step down amid scrutiny over his role in the Ukraine scandal

Nicole Karlis

“We already have his replacement,” Trump told reporters in Texas. “Rick has done a fantastic job, but it was time"

10/18/2019 09:55 EDT

Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani and Mick Mulvaney (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

The week Donald Trump’s presidency crashed and burned — and Republicans have noticed

Heather Digby Parton

We've said this before: But this disastrous week drove some Republicans away from Trump. Beginning of the end?

10/18/2019 08:21 EDT

Mick Mulvaney and Trump National Doral Resort (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Mick Mulvaney plays Trump’s new fall guy on corruption — and Republicans just play along

Sophia Tesfaye

Mulvaney explains Ukraine quid pro quo, announces Trump has awarded himself the G7 summit. GOP: We're cool!

10/18/2019 07:00 EDT

Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (AP Photo/Salon)

Biden accuses Warren, Sanders of “playing Trump’s game” on Medicare for All

Jake Johnson

Fading frontrunner? Biden makes "mostly false" claims about cost of Medicare for All, compares leftists to Trump

10/18/2019 06:00 EDT

Mick Mulvaney undercuts Trump defense, admits Ukraine aid was blocked to force investigation

Igor Derysh

Massive blunder or true confession? White House chief of staff spells out Ukraine quid pro quo: "Get over it"

10/17/2019 16:30 EDT

Gordon Sondland, the United States Ambassador to the European Union, adresses the media during a press conference at the US Embassy to Romania in Bucharest September 5, 2019. (DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)

E.U. ambassador throws Trump and Giuliani under the bus in testimony to impeachment investigators

Igor Derysh

Sondland will tell Congress that he disagreed with Trump's "direction" to conduct foreign policy through Giuliani

10/17/2019 13:04 EDT

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speak with reporters after a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Democrats: It’s time to include Trump’s shady Syria/Turkey deal in impeachment inquiry

Amanda Marcotte

As with the Ukraine fiasco, Trump appears to have put his self-interest ahead of our national interest in Turkey

10/17/2019 13:00 EDT

Donald Trump and various media outlets/personalities superimposed onto a violent scene from "Kingsmen" (CNN/Youtube)

The Trump murder video is no joke: It’s an encouragement to ramp up the violence

Chauncey DeVega

Of course the president's allies dismiss this vision of mayhem as satire. But it has a clear and chilling purpose

10/17/2019 08:00 EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd gathered at the Local 18 Richfield Facility of the Operating Engineers Apprentice and Training, a union and apprentice training center specializing in the repair and operation of heavy equipment on March 29, 2018 in Richfield, Ohio. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Trump is waging a war on labor unions, but you wouldn’t know it from CNN’s Dem Debate

Michael Arria

Key labor battles were notably missing from Tuesday's Democratic debate

10/17/2019 04:59 EDT

Rudy Giuliani and Fethullah Gulen (Getty Images/Salon)

Giuliani denies he illegally lobbied for Turkey after pressing Trump to hand over Muslim cleric

Igor Derysh

More hot water for Trump's lawyer: He repeatedly urged U.S. to extradite Islamic scholar wanted by Turkey

10/16/2019 18:28 EDT

Fourth man arrested in probe of Ukrainian campaign finance scheme tied to Giuliani’s associates

Shira Tarlo

David Correia is now in federal custody and will be arraigned Thursday

10/16/2019 17:28 EDT

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Getty Images/Zach Gibson/Scott Eisen/Drew Angerer)

Ilhan Omar backs Sanders for president — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib set to follow

Shira Tarlo

Three of the four members of "The Squad," the quartet of progressive freshmen, are lining up behind Sanders

10/16/2019 15:58 EDT

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN/New York Times at Otterbein University, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Democratic debate: Elizabeth Warren attacked by moderate rivals over wealth tax proposal

Matthew Rozsa

“I want to give a reality check here to Elizabeth . . . Your idea is not the only idea," Amy Klobuchar said onstage

10/16/2019 13:30 EDT