Politics

For generations, the United States and Canada have enjoyed one of the world’s most fruitful symbiotic relationships. The two nations share a border that stretches over 5,500 miles across the continent. Canada is America’s second most significant trading partner, after China, and no country imports more goods from the United …

“Here’s some advice,” says Hardball host Chris Matthews. It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Wednesday in MSNBC’s Washington, D.C., greenroom. Rep. Adam Schiff, who just wrapped up an appearance on The Beat With Ari Melber, is getting his TV makeup wiped off, while Matthews offers some political wisdom to Schiff’s deputy …

Lauren Atkins has had to repeat the story of the worst night of her life so many times that she can now tell it in three sentences. So, when an Oklahoma legislator asked Lauren to share it at a recent committee hearing, she was nervous but prepared. Sentence number one: …

On Wednesday, exactly one month after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire at his former high school in Parkland, Florida, students across the nation took part in National Walkout Day in protest of gun violence – capping off a busy first month of the student-led #NeverAgain movement. More than 185,000 students …

Donald Trump‘s affair with former Playboy model Karen McDougal was kept out of headlines through an elaborate cover-up, according to claims made in Ronan Farrow’s latest New Yorker piece. The story, published Friday, alleges that American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, took extensive measures to ensure that …

Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury dropped like an atom bomb this month, effectively ending Steve Bannon’s career and contributing “Gorilla Channel” to the collective lexicon. One of the main drivers of the book’s massive launch – publisher Henry Holt & Co. has ordered 1.4 million hardcover copies– was the president’s …

The stunning upset victory of Democrat Doug Jones over Roy Moore in Alabama’s special election on Tuesday is being parsed by pundits and politicians alike, but the results don’t seem to have changed much for Republicans at the hyper-partisan U.S. Capitol. On Wednesday, GOP lawmakers carried on with business as …

Donald Trump sent his attorney general out Tuesday to announce that the president will rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, in a transparent attempt to evade responsibility for his decision to end the popular and successful effort. DACA has allowed some 800,000 people who came to …