Thom Hartmann

Torture is about as immoral and unconstitutional as it gets, but that’s not how Antonin Scalia sees it.

Last night, with only hours to go before the government shut down, the House of Representatives passed the so-called “Cromnibus” bill to keep government running.

The Koch Brothers are trying to re-write history. Caitlin MacNeal over at TPM is reporting that the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has “encouraged” state high school teachers to start teaching a curriculum that was drafted by a Koch Brothers-funded group.

Conservatives are freaking out about the Senate torture report, and nowhere are they freaking out more than on Fox So-Called News.

“The character of our country has to be measured in part, not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard.” Those were the words of President Obama, when he was asked over the summer about the CIA’s use of torture in the months and years after 9/11.

The “Southern Democrat” is dying, but it’s not dead yet.On Saturday, things got even worse for the Democratic Party.

Tax-dodging big banks and giant corporations are finally being held accountable…except for here in the United States.

Democrats blew it on Obamacare. That’s according to retiring Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who told The Hill today that he regrets that his party didn’t go far enough back in 2009 and 2010 when it was trying to push the Affordable Care Act through Congress

After filling up on turkey and stuffing, millions of Americans flocked to some of the nation’s biggest retailers this year for Black Friday savings.

As the nation continues to react to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, many people are asking themselves, “Where do we go from here?”