Author: Thom Hartmann

The Republican Party has a terrorism problem, and the failure of the party’s leadership and members to call it out after the terrorist attack in Buffalo suggests they are just fine with it. The only high-profile Republican to have said a serious negative word against “White replacement terrorists” within the party was Liz Cheney, who tweeted: “The House GOP leadership has enabled White Nationalism, White Supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.” Of all the politically motivated...

Minority rule is killing America. This is most obvious in our Senate and Supreme Court, although it is also hurt the credibility of the presidency and is damaging many of our states. It is happening because of two issues dating back to the founding of our republic, which brought us the Electoral College and unequal representation in the US Senate. First, here’s how the Electoral College came about, stripped of all the mythology (hint: it mostly had to do with avoiding somebody like Donald Trump ending up in the White House): After the Revolutionary War, the nation was abuzz...

Putin’s attack on Ukraine is producing a series of crises which are going to, in all probability, bring a period of great pain and instability to the world and to America in the near future. Republicans are already working to exploit it. By the election this fall much of the unity that exists because of today’s Ukraine passion will be exhausted, but the crisis it’s produced will just be beginning. And, just as Putin probably now hopes, it’ll stretch some democracies to the breaking point. Americans think we have stood down Putin, but the forces he represents — strongman...