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Trump's executive orders threaten civil strife on a scale the country has not seen in decades.

People continued to gather, march, chant and hold vigils in at least 40 protests nationwide.

Where lawsuits are concerned, our new president is an overachiever.

In statehouses across the country, ALEC-backed legislators are pushing for a balanced-budget amendment, a repeal of the federal income tax and more.

"We are surprised. We are confused. We can't believe what is going on."

A recent book by neuroscientist Shane O'Mara makes crystal clear how dead wrong Trump is about torture.

Meet the leaders of the West Coast resistance.

Big pharma says all drugs are safe—as long as they're making millions.

After the catharsis of the Women's March (and the backlash), progressives hope to turn that energy toward victory.

A controversy in New York offers a glimpse of what many communities across the nation could soon face.

The mayhem could have easily been avoided.

Our love affair with the private vehicle is waning. Does it still deserve a third of our urban living space?

New research shows a strong link.

"We are surprised. We are confused. We can't believe what is going on."

People continued to gather, march, chant and hold vigils in at least 40 protests nationwide.

Tens of thousands of Syrian children—children no different than your grandmother, whose lives have been marred by a war they did not choose—rely on your sense of compassion.

Affordable health care? Smash it. Fair pay for working people? Crush it. And on and on.

For the second day in a row, thousands of people swarmed airports and other places to protest Trump's Muslim ban.

It's easy to get lost in the president's blizzard of vileness.

In his latest video, Olbermann essentially invites the press to do its most basic job.

ACLU goes to court and shows Trump can be stopped.

The original Tea Party targeted crony capitalists. Today's would be wise to follow its example.

Uber provided rides at JFK airport while other taxi drivers held strike over Trump's ban on Muslim travellers.

Rex Tillerson: I just ran a gas station.

Anti-choice activist says birth control—including the pill and IUDs—should be illegal.

The Trump administration is rapidly setting a disastrous course for women’s health and rights.

Thousands gathered in solidarity at the New York City airport Saturday.

A new social media project gives historical perspective to Trump's executive order.

How can I trust my fellow church-goers again after such a devastating betrayal?

“I am enclosing my tampons and sanitary pads as long as the law stands,” one woman wrote.

The U.S. and Europe are responsible for approximately 60 percent of all food waste—with more than a fifth arising from spoilage.

The days of touting our "exceptionalism" to the rest of the world are emphatically over.

The only way out of this mess is for communities to manage and protect their wild places and animals.

Change comes from a mobilized electorate. The women's march can only be the start.

Weight isn't always an indication of health.

The Middle East expects big changes under Trump, and they're likely to get them.

A new social media project gives historical perspective to Trump's executive order.

It isn’t clear if he’s trying to convince his interviewer or himself.

Thousands gathered in solidarity at the New York City airport Saturday.

Rest assured, it has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of insurance premiums.

"The president of the United States has embraced a piece of — it's worse than fake news."

The president's new executive order is already hurting lives and dividing families.

Movements are demanding material safety and well-being for all people under attack.

First, we bomb you. Then we ban you.

Vibrio vulnificus is like something out of a horror movie.

Voter-suppression zealot Hans von Spakovsky is among the key voices urging Trump to go after mythical voter fraud.

There appears to be no path forward at this time.

A new book asks important questions about slaves’ perspectives on their auctions, including an enslaved father who fought to buy his son at auction.

Orwell could not have imagined the internet and its role in distributing alternative facts.

Can you say "misplaced priorities"?

On this most basic issue of abortion and bodily autonomy, Donald Trump is imposing American religious values on women across the developing world.

Opposition to the film has come from fans of the Hollywood musical and admirers of jazz. Too bad they are wrong.

"Any place that that can happen to any kid should be closed."

Men can’t multitask and women can.

He’s going to create a huge trillion-dollar market for Wall Street’s high finance.

A new book says the sensational testimony that allowed Till's killers to walk free was fabricated.

The president reminded us yet again how grossly ill-prepared he is for the world stage.

Movements are demanding material safety and well-being for all people under attack.

While Trump lies, the former Breitbart chief seizes the reins of power.

Richard Spencer wasn't the only white supremacist to be roughed up this week.

Noam Chomsky interviewed by Kenneth Palmer and Richard Yarrow.

Andrew Jackson was an unrepentant slave driver and ethnic cleanser. Trump sees him as a fellow populist.

The far right is already moving to violently suppress demonstrators—with police complicity.

"Senor Trump, please, please grow up... be or try to be a real president."

Breitbart features a "Black Crime" tag and Steve Bannon may have convinced Trump to replicate it at the White House.

There are four more years of this to come.

Trumponomics is Reaganomics on steroids.

"If your grandpa started talking like this, you would consider putting him in a home. Instead we put this guy in a house."

Our nuclear arsenal is under the command of a narcissist with poor impulse control.

Activists caution the executive order will tear families apart and destroy lives.

"From the very beginning of the teachings in Scientology you were taught that news is a bad place, that the news lies."

The decision could start a trade war.

Trump proposes a blinding cascade of policy changes, but his casual "torture works" may be the worst news of all.

Welcome to a globalism of the 1 percent.

In order to save democracy from its greatest challenge, we must continue marching.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick sparks new "bathroom bill" and effort to curtail same-sex couples' rights in Houston.

How to keep yourself safe in a barrage of threats to free speech.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was the first law Barack Obama would sign as president of the United States.

Employees have volunteered to wear the data mining devices.

Longshore workers, who load and unload cargo ships, chose not to report to their hiring hall.

For 50 years, America's middle-class families have been pummeled by corporate greedmeisters and their political henchmen.

No, Paul Ryan was not really a secret hipster all along.

Their own community is under attack, yet major outlets remain decidedly pro-police.

Seriously? A protest fashion piece?

Update: The Trump administration has informed senior officials their services are no longer needed.

"I've got time," Lauer told Conway. "Explain the 'complicated form' to me."

If workers benefit, so be it, goes the thinking in Trumpland.

Trump's "psyche is not a pretty place," Bernstein told CNN.

In her first column since her commutation, Manning writes that Obama's legacy is a warning against not being bold enough.

The president is already breaking his promises to American auto workers.

A new report finds public confidence in our institutions has slumped to historic lows.

Donald Trump has long been cozy with the notorious conspiracy theorist, and now it seems to be paying off.

A new study identifies an extra 0.1°C of man-made warming.

"Our president is a pathological liar."

A pattern is emerging: the president is presented with a draconian bill, and he signs on the dotted line.

Moumita Ahmed shares some tips on how to resist Trump from her work on Millennials for Bernie Sanders.

Protesters in NYC rallied against an executive order President Trump is preparing to sign.

Given Trump's erratic behavior in his first few days, Washington is starting to murmur about the 25th Amendment.

Step up, parents; time for some uncomfortable but crucial conversations.

Civil rights organizations have loudly condemned the president's newest executive orders.

At this rate, science fiction is proving more insightful about the future than the CIA.

"You are at a memorial for agents who gave their lives for this country. What is the matter with you?!"

There’s no doubt Gay will have absolutely no problem finding another publisher.

Building walls results in wasted resources and lost opportunities for the United States.

For many people, expensive wines don't actually taste better.

Contrary to all evidence, President Trump will ignore climate change science and proceed with aggressive pro-oil and gas policies.

And don't forget those tweets from Trump sometimes come from his unsecured phone.

Now is the time to show that our way is the American way.

The soil and the streets of black communities hold a deep agricultural tradition that has been disappearing over the past 100 years.

Like many cabinet nominees, Ryan Zinke is a purveyor of "alternative facts."

Civil rights organizations have loudly condemned the president's newest executive orders.

Lawmakers walk out after getting an earful from incensed constituents.

Increasingly, the media are simply compliant patsies to whoever is in power.

Hatred of Wall Street helped Trump win. So why is he stocking the Cabinet with its biggest players?

Trump's "America First" talk doesn't mean retrenchment. He just wants us to dominate everyone and rule the world.

Voter suppression is "baked into [America's] DNA."

The MSNBC host warns the EPA has effectively been "brought to a halt."

Newsflash: There's no such thing as a moderate Nazi.

This is the second time in the past week one of its accounts has bucked the new administration.

Don't be fooled; it's nothing more than a huge tax giveaway for the rich.

A dispatch from the DAPL protests in New York City.

The author explains that white politicians are held to a different standard.

The Academy greatly increased the diversity of its nominations, but it still has room for improvement.

Lawmakers are obstructing a ballot measure to establish the first independent ethics commission in state history.

Gary Taubes' new book claims sugar is as addictive as cigarettes, and even more readily available.

To understand the president's erratic behavior, you must understand his media addiction, reports indicate.

His outrage was the reason for Sean Spicer's authoritarian farce of a press conference.

One in four Americans are unsure about the safety of their tap water.

"Trump’s reinstatement of the global gag rule officially turns his anti-woman, anti-choice rhetoric into policy."

A self-proclaimed ethical meat-eater assumes the unnecessary killing of an animal is ethical.

In a motion to dismiss filed shortly after Trump was sworn in as president, attorneys argued that Trump violated Bergdahl’s due process rights and military law against unlawful command influence.

"The windows exploded...the trailer started to lift up."

U.S. president’s inauguration day proclamation uses language uttered by Kim Jong-un in speeches to military and in the secretive state’s propaganda.

His superhuman solipsism took him from the crib all the way to the White House.

Peter Newsham was implicated in a mass arrest and abuse scandal more than a decade ago.

The old establishment seems sidelined and the “deep state” appears bewildered.

CIA director Mike Pompeo will learn that the agency is not kind to interlopers from Capitol Hill.

Each faces 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted.

Two key aspects of former-President Obama's climate leadership are being scrapped.

A lawsuit argues that foreigners hold sway because they control Trump's loans, licenses, income and more.

LaBeouf: "He will not divide us."

A local police chief makes a chilling interpretation of the new "Blue Lives Matter" bill.

The president continues to operate with "alternate facts."

"You’re still the most popular president since Obama."

"Hitler didn't steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people."

Who says the GOP doesn't have a plan?

Dylann Roof’s radicalization began, as he later wrote in an online manifesto, when he typed the words "black on White crime" into Google.

Jeff Sessions is cool with asset forfeiture, however.

Carson's work is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.

More troubling signs of a deadly "health care" agenda.

Will Trump's way of governing fit into what we call “sultanism”?

Here are some historic highlights.

There’s been much hand-wringing about how the media should deal with the Trump administration. First of all: don’t get distracted.

Local food control can help communities eliminate food deserts, fight against gentrification and even preserve cultural history.

Police responded after the victim fled to a gas station for help, the Associated Press reported.

Prejudice is infecting Indian cinema, and some are fighting back.

Only about 20 percent of dieters who start off overweight end up successfully losing weight and keeping it off in the long term.