I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.