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Today’s special: Obamacare menu labeling rules ushered in
Phil Galewitz
Restaurants will be required to list calories on all menus and menu boards
Liberal hope is dangerous: Don’t count on Mueller or the blue wave to save America from Trump
Chauncey DeVega
Believe that American democracy still works and things will go back to normal? That's nice. It's also not reality
Now you can view thousands of Russian-linked Facebook ads
Nicole Karlis
The ads released were created by the Internet Research Agency and circulated Facebook between 2015 and 2017
Joe Scarborough implicated Mike Pence in the coverup of potential Russia collusion by Team Trump
Travis Gettys
"We have to start asking the question, 'Why does Mike Pence want to kill this investigation,'" the MSNBC host said
Samantha Bee on Trump CIA pick Gina Haspel: “Man, getting answers out of her is torture!”
Sarah K. Burris
The United States has had a rough week, comedian Samantha Bee declared during Wednesday’s episode of “Full Frontal"
Mike Pence is copying Richard Nixon’s Watergate playbook
Matthew Rozsa
"It's time to wrap it up": The vice president's command to Robert Mueller rips directly from Nixon during Watergate
The Senate’s only torture survivor urges colleagues to oppose Trump’s CIA nominee
Matthew Rozsa
Republican Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam POW, has long opposed torture, and he's now speaking out against Gina Haspel
Who paid Michael Cohen all that money — and for what? Sleaze, scandal creep closer to Trump
Heather Digby Parton
Selling access to the president, paying off ex-girlfriends and covering up scandal may be the tip of the iceberg
If Trump’s foreign policy gambles fail, history suggests his reaction could be dangerous
Charles Hermann
No sitting U.S. president has ever met with a leader of North Korea. Trump’s gambit is a risky one.
House Republicans now pushing for a solution on the Dreamers — yes, you read that right
Matthew Rozsa
Bipartisan group in Congress aims to force a vote on 4 immigration bills, over Paul Ryan's objections
War and the imperial presidency
Danny Sjursen
Congress offers a bipartisan blank check to Donald Trump
How much have Republicans cut the EPA in two years?
Louis Jacobson
Rep. Evan Jenkins boasts during a debate about the cuts in two key areas to the EPA
Reich: The financial hardships of Trump’s friends
Robert Reich
Trumponomics is a thin veneer of an excuse for giving America’s rich whatever they want
Democratic Senators plan last stand to restore net neutrality
Nicole Karlis
A vote is now being brought to the Senate, which could happen as soon as next week
The Grifter in Chief has an administration full of thieves, fixers and money grubbers
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Now more than ever, the “lobby bar” at the Trump International Hotel is the favorite hang-out of lobbyists & fixers
In confrontational hearing, Gina Haspel won’t say if torture was “immoral”
Nicole Karlis
Haspel had a heated encounter with Sen. Kamala Harris on the morality of waterboarding
Whoopi schools Meghan McCain on GOP opposition to Iran nuke deal: “You guys don’t have another plan”
Joseph Neese
"You guys don't have another plan," Whoopi Goldberg said to McCain. "You don't have a way to get Iran to comply."
Michael Cohen responds to report he received $500k from Russian oligarch
Matthew Rozsa
Robert Mueller's team has begun investigating payments the president's lawyer got from a Putin-tied company in 2017
Is war with Iran coming next? Now that Trump has dumped the Iran deal, he may seek regime change
Heather Digby Parton
Will Trump be satisfied with scuttling Barack Obama's Iran deal? Because John Bolton and Mike Pompeo want war
Historian Timothy Snyder on Trump’s war on democracy: He is deliberately “hurting white people”
Chauncey DeVega
Yale historian Timothy Snyder's new book documents Trump's "sadopopulism" and America's "Road to Unfreedom"
Birth of a “Troll Nation”: Amanda Marcotte on how and why conservatives embraced the dark side
Andrew O'Hehir
Amanda Marcotte's new book is about a problem bigger than Trump: The turn toward hate that made him possible
Warning signs for the blue wave? Republicans shun Blankenship, pick strong contenders
Sophia Tesfaye
Endangered Democrats in West Virginia and Indiana must face credible opponents; Ohio governor race will be tight
Rage, then hope, over Eric Schneiderman: #MeToo is working — at least on the left
Amanda Marcotte
It's frustrating that a "feminist" man is accused of abuse, but progressives are getting better at handling this
Meghan McCain orders fellow Republican Orrin Hatch to “chill out” after he talks about her father
Rachel Leah
The Utah senator criticized colleague John McCain for not wanting Trump at his funeral, and Meghan wasn't having it
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