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There’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs through the work of Ayn Rand.…

While, in the wake of the El Paso murders, the media and most of our politicians are acting shocked—“shocked, I tell you!”—that there are armed racists in America who are…

It looks like Donald Trump and the leadership of the GOP are encouraging other countries to hack our upcoming 2020 election.

If he times it right, Donald Trump might set back the Democratic Party for a generation or more; if he misses, he’ll go down in history along with Herbert Hoover as the guy who brought the nation an economic disaster.

“Give me liberty or give me death.” —Patrick HenryArticle 1, Section 8, of the proposed Constitution had southern slave owners concerned about the future of their economy.

Donald Trump did not invent the art of the political insult but he’s inflamed the level of vitriolic public discourse and incivility to a new low unmatched by other presidents. In a tainted tradition that has permeated our history, other presidents have not been immune to dishing out acerbic insults against one another.

People are asking why the shooter in Virginia Beach used a gun to settle his workplace score. The answer is probably pretty simple.

“[Americans’] patriotism would certainly prefer its [tariffs’] continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.”

Here are a few tips to the up-and-coming crop of progressive podcasters from somebody who’s been doing it for around 15 years.

Listening to Republicans, it’s apparent they don’t have much respect for the intelligence of the American people.