It is amazing that this was Rachel on a Monday night and by Thursday morning there was already a new scandal (albeit still with Clarence Thomas and his billionaire).
Our deal with viewers last night: We’ll let you know right away if Donald Trump says anything newsworthy in his speech, but otherwise we’re not taking it live.
Given his life-long record, can anyone really be surprised if Donald Trump is indicted?
A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump.
If you’re not already running to MSNBC, we hope to see you tonight at 9pm ET!
It’s one thing to be wary of spammy scams and computer viruses, but tools of oppression go a step further.
It’s not hyperbole to call the Republican shift on abortion “radical.”
Sure! Who among us hasn’t completely forgotten what we majored in in college and just made up some other thing?
Even though we might have guessed we hadn’t seen the last of Oleg Deripaska in U.S. news headlines, we didn’t really see this twist coming.
What happens when the Dear Leader and his party decide that if the legal system is going to be used against the Dear Leader then the system’s gotta go? Georgia may be showing us.
Public servants at all levels of government in the United States are regularly indicted without the overall system of government and the lives of Americans suffering any particular disruption. A potential Donald Trump indictmetn should be no different.
The amazing story of how a young Navy lieutenant from Georgia named Jimmy helped avert a nuclear disaster in 1952.
[Edited from the February 20, 2023 episode of the Rachel Maddow Show.]
You might think that finding themselves on the same side of an issue as actual, flag-waving neo-Nazis would give politicians pause about their position, but that is apparently not the case for Ohio Republicans.
Donald Trump has turned his supporters, a significant portion of the Republican Party, against the press that has reported unfavorable things about him, and against law enforcement and prosecutors who have investigated him. As his potential indictment grows more proximate, how should we anticipate his attacks on the judiciary?
“We can never normalize the ending of democracy.” Justin Pearson on being expelled from the Tennessee legislature
Because Judy Heumann was willing to make a fuss, life not just in the U.S. but in so many other countries is better. Even for the people she fought against and won.
[Edited from the March 6, 2023 episode of The Rachel Maddow Show.]
Whatever happened to the prosecution of “Individual 1”? Some clues exist.
Much more on this case on 2/6 Monday’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show.
The Trumps are keeping curious company lately…
Among history’s notable, quickly forgotten close calls…
“As much as you can see in different states, between red states and blue states, a difference in priorities, a difference in outcomes, sometimes a notable difference in seriousness of purpose among lawmakers in those two different kinds of states — for all of that, all those trends that I followed for years, this is one of the few times I can remember when Democratic states like Jay Inslee’s Washington state are passing not just legislation that’s different than what they’re doing in the Republican states.
Not just passing legislation that makes blue states distinct from Republican states in terms of policy and likely outcomes, this is the first time that I can remember when Democratic-controlled states feel the need to pass rafts of legislation basically just to protect themselves from red states and what they’re doing over there.”
Former New York prosecutor Mark Pomerantz says they got as far as drafting language for charging Donald Trump before the investigation stalled under a new district attorney.
This is almost certainly *not* why Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox, but the short path from fringe internet propaganda to Fox broadcast is nonetheless disturbing.
The Republican Party’s devotion to denying election results they don’t like, that fever is not breaking.
It takes a leap of twisted logic to understand why white power extremists think attacks on U.S. infrastructure will trigger a race war.
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