Trump’s Election Has Led to Massive Wave of Donations to Progressive Groups

Many Americans are turning their despair over Trump's win into action, supporting a range of organizations that fight for equality and civil rights. If there is any upside to the U.S. presidential election, it could be that progressive causes around the country are reporting an "unprecedented" surge in donations, the Guardian wrote on Sunday.

Bernie Sanders: We Need People to Stand Up to Billionaire Class, Corporate America

In a Democracy Now! special, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sat down with Amy Goodman at the Free Library of Philadelphia in late November in his most extensive broadcast interview since Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton just weeks earlier. Right now in the United States, as you know, Mr. Trump will be inaugurated.

Bernie Sanders Says Donald Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Nuclear Arms Race Talk Must Be Challenged

Sen. Bernie Sanders has made it known that Donald Trump should not go unchallenged by his congressional colleagues as troubling comments by the President-elect about nuclear weapons this week sparked alarm across the United States and the world. Following an initial out-of-the-blue tweet Thursday saying the U.S. should "expand" its nuclear arsenal followed by "clarifying" remarks Friday to MSNBC in which Trump said, " Let it be an arms race ," Sanders responded: "It's a miracle a nuclear weapon hasn't been used in war since 1945.

La La Land

Whenever I do a music thread or movie thread or something like that, lots of people in the comments say they'd like to see more such threads because it's such a depressing time politically. I thought I'd do one on movie musicals.

Remember when Dems were blasted for Class War? Meet Trump’s Cabinet

Donald Trump and the business kingpins populating his inner circle want to slice the tax bill of America's top 0.1 percent. In a typical corporate board of directors meeting, what do CEOs see when they look out across their richly lacquered boardroom tables? Lots of other CEOs.

Trump to shut down questionable charity

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month. The revelation comes as the New York attorney general's office investigates the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump's campaign.

The five biggest obstacles to Trump’s plan to overhaul the tax code

Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin waits after a meeting with Senator Orrin Hatch on Capitol Hill December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, he is expected to lead Trump's tax reform efforts./ AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski President-elect Donald Trump likes to say he will "drain the swamp" of special interests when he takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Donald Trump-Islamic Hero

Donald Trump has gone to great pains making clear to one and all, that his words before the invasion of Iraq when he favored it were misunderstood because he really opposed the war in Iraq. Raghhad Saddam Hussein, the daughter of Saddam Hussein, has come out with words of praise for Donald Trump, the hero of Saddam's followers.

So much for ‘draining the swamp’

One of Donald Trump's most trusted aides is setting up a government consulting shop a block from the White House - a move that complicates the president-elect's promises to "drain the swamp" of Washington. Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager, and former Trump adviser Barry Bennett announced Wednesday they are starting a government relations and political consulting firm called Avenue Strategies.

Trump’s Normalization of White Supremacy: Will Richard Spencer Sit in Congress?

With an incoming presidency that was embroiled in charges of using white supremacist rhetoric during the campaign trail, it's no wonder white supremacists across the country are rising from the margins and being frontlined on mainstream platforms. The rise of Richard Spencer - the white supremacist considering running for Congress - is one such case.

GOP Congressman says Trump’s conflicts of interest are OK because George Washington kept his house

Donald Trump's aides are reportedly floating the idea that instead of putting his considerable business assets and holdings into a blind trust a S-a Ssomething other presidents have used to avoid conflicts of interest a S-a She might put his funds into a not-actually-blind-at-all "half-blind trust." Rep. Tom Cole said on Wednesday that he does not think Trump needs to disentangle himself.

Sources of Flint’s Water Disaster Run Deep

The committee's assessment: the federal Environmental Protection Agency is to blame more than Michigan's own leaders. to the House Appropriations Committee closing the investigation, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, found that the "federal regulatory framework is so outdated that it sets up states to fail."