The victory of progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary for one of Michigan's seats in the United States Senate was a dramatic upset over a coalition of establishment corporatists, the right-wing media infrastructure and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the vicious Israel lobby that influences American elections without identifying itself. Rather than take...

I'm screwed. You've had that thought. You've had that feeling: short breaths, panic, hollow chest. This is big. I may not ever be able to get out of this. No one can or will help me. The doctor closes the door and says, "I don't like what I see in these lab results." Firetrucks blocking...

If Republicans get their way, McCarthyism will be back — and here to stay. Leading the race to the soggiest pits of ethical crud, as usual, President Donald Trump repeatedly calls Democratic Socialists of America-affiliated primary winners "hardcore, godless communists" after DSAers swept the New York elections last month. Ideologically, New York City Mayor Zohran...

Right-wing Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, former Senate majority leader and key senior legislator, went missing for weeks. No one — including President Donald Trump and the governor of his home state — knew whether he was sick, wallowing in depression like a recently MIA congressman from New Jersey, on a wild incognito adventure,...