Thom Hartmann

Dave Brat wants to bring libertarian economics to the U.S., and double-down on 33 miserable years of Reaganomics.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past twenty-four hours, you know by now that Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, lost his primary election last night to a little-known college professor named David Brat.

If the Senate doesn’t screw things up, we might finally get the kind of media shield law that our democracy requires

There were two terrorist attacks in America over the weekend, but don’t expect the mainstream media to call them that.

The “vast right-wing conspiracy” machine is alive and well in America today. Unless you’ve been buried under a rock since this weekend, you’ve probably seen an interview or two with a former Army soldier who served with Sargent Bowe Bergdahl, the POW who was released this week after being held in captivity by the Taliban for 5 years.

The NRA’s brief moment of sanity is over. On Tuesday, the gun group apologized for a statement published on its website that called gun rights protesters in Texas “weird” and “scary.”

It’s the bottom of the 9th inning, and corporate America is just one out away from another major victory.

Each country thinks that it’s exceptional, and, truth be told, each country really is exceptional in its own special ways.

You and I have the power to end Nixon’s failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it’s our constitutional right to do so.

Never in the history of the developed world has an entire generation had to go into debt just to get an education and a job.