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In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani reviews Volker Ullrich’s new book examining Adolf Hitler’s remarkable rise from “pathetic dunderhead” to infamous figure. The short, striking piece is worth reading in full.…

We continue the long, slow slog that is our daily roundup of Donald Trump campaign news. When we began this feature, it was a response to a Republican campaign that was bleeding so much negative news in any given day that no one blog could contain it all. Now?…

Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Here is the most recent previous Green Spotlight. More than 25,570 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to…

It's Wednesday, September 28, and Day 227 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell decided no nominee would get any Senate attention: No meetings, no hearings, no votes. It's also Day 196 since Merrick Garland was nominated by President Obama to…

What Donald Trump had to say about nuclear weapons in the first debate caused experts to set the WTF clock back to 0:00 minutes.…

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is in hot water for urging the state's 68 probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the Supreme Court's 2015 marriage equality ruling. And now that he's facing the possibility of being removed…

Vivek Viswanathan, a policy advisor at Hillary for America who focuses on college affordability and student debt, will be hosting a live Q & A here on Daily Kos at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET on Monday, October 3. He graduated with a B.A. in history from Harvard, an…

The AP points out that Donald Trump hasn't always been so reluctant to release his tax returns. When there's a profit to be had, the man does what he’s gotta do.…

The Koch brothers are making getting Harry Reid's Nevada Senate seat one of their top priorities this cycle and have already spent at least $6 million just in this state, in the hopes of exacting revenge on the man who has worked so hard to expose them.…

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is at it again, exploiting a tragedy for his own political advancement. First, it was the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Standing outside the scene the following day, Rubio actually talked political strategy with…

Focus groups, like polls, should more than likely be taken with a grain of salt. But a focus group in Pennsylvania however may actually reflect popular sentiment in what forecasters are calling a battleground state in this year’s election. During…

When Hillary Clinton kicked off her campaign, the press corps literally chased her "Scooby" van all over the place trying to catch pictures of her. Why? Because she was talking to actual voters, specifically at round tables like the one she did with young…

Workers at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas voted to unionize last December, but management has been waging a fierce battle against them, retaliating against workers who exercised their legal rights, trying to get the union vote thrown out, and now,…

There are almost as many things wrong with Donald Trump’s defense of expanding “stop and frisk” as there are words in this back and forth between Trump and moderator Lester Holt.…

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) doesn't seem too interested in running for re-election, and that's allowing Democrat Deborah Ross to surge, making this a real horse race, and panicking Republicans.…

Ever since we started fundraising for our slate of woman Democratic candidates on the heels of Hillary Clinton’s ass whoopin’ of Donald Trump, you (and me! I contributed too!) have donated nearly $90,000—in a day and a half. …

Among so many other things, this election has demonstrated that liberals have brought about one long overdue sea change in public opinion: Finally, we have official confirmation that the 2003 invasion of Iraq has been so completely discredited that it’s no…

This is not a reminder that professional journalists should ever need:…

Donald Trump is still flailing around trying to claim he won Monday night’s debate, or would have won if he hadn’t been cheated and done wrong in various ways. But his advisers are crystal clear that he lost, so they are flailing around trying to figure…

Donald Trump was very proud of himself for not explicitly attacking Hillary Clinton over her husband’s past infidelities in Monday night’s debate: “When she hit me at the end with the women, I was going to hit her with her husband’s women and I…

Citing her temperament, experience, and ability to think before acting, the Arizona Republic, the largest newspaper in the state, did something it has never done in its 126-year history: endorsed a Democrat for president.…

When you think of your favorite places, the cities you’d love to visit again and again, what comes to mind? Do you have friends there? Family you see all too rarely? Maybe there’s a restaurant that serves of the best pizza you ever ate. A museum that has…

The government has three more days of funding, counting today, meaning Congress has to work with uncommon speed to avert a shutdown, and it looks like the House is actually coming to the rescue on this one. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has…

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Donald Trump is a bully who was handed a very public loss on Monday night. Naturally, he’s having trouble with that, so he’s making some very public excuses, Zeke Miller reports:…

Donald Trump has nothing but praise for Vladimir Putin:…

My operating theory of partisanship is that people’s opinions of the candidates are baked in, and while we may see some movement in the margins, the only question left is who turns out, rather than how they will vote. …

It’s Wednesday, and Joan McCarter day, and it couldn’t come soon enough, if you ask me.…

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