Politics

We are entering a period of national psychological trauma.

“It looks like House Speaker Ryan is quickly being rewarded for passing this legislation that overwhelmingly benefits the Koch's and billionaires like them."

Winning will not make Trump curb his media-driven excesses -- or think less of his matchless, instinctive brilliance. Au contraire. Does not Trump’s attention-getting gimmickry demand ever more outlandish bellowing? That suggests worse is yet to come. So let’s take current Trumpery to its “logical” extension. Does not understanding Trumpism advance by imagining his first State of the Union address?

Democrats are demanding a vote on new legislation that would close gun control loopholes.

“Public corruption is among the most serious of criminal violations and a betrayal of the public’s sacred trust.”

Trump’s top healthcare adviser, former Gilead Sciences lobbyist Joe Grogan, strenuously lobbied within the White House and on Capitol Hill against price negotiations.

The NDAA will hit Donald Trump's desk today and is "on track to become law before the start of the fiscal year for the first time since the fiscal 1997 bill."

In education policymaking in Washington, D.C., the “bean counters” are still in charge.

“Prejudice doesn’t deserve a pardon.”

We will do our very best to see this pipeline removed, our water protected, and our sacred lands healed."