Matt Lauer asked President Barack Obama [http://www.today.com/news/president-obama-donald-trump-talk-me-if-he-wins-t66436] if he could imagine Donald Trump giving a State of t...
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/01/obama-throws-shade-trump-state-of-the-union
By some estimates [http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/el-chapo-speaks-20160109?page=2], the just-nabbed billionaire [http://www.forbes.com/profile/joaquin-guzman-loe...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/el-chapo-marijuana-sinaloa-cartel
The same routes that Mexico's drug cartels use to smuggle drugs into the United States are also used to run American guns into Mexico, according to a new report [http://democr...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/united-states-guns-trafficking-mexico-cartels
The argument for a union shop is pretty straightforward: even if you hate your union, they perform collective bargaining for everyone, including you. Since you benefit from th...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/if-money-speech-first-amendment-billionaires-dream
Jeez, the conservative media is really sensitive these days when it comes to Sen. Ted Cruz. On Friday night, New York Times columnist David Brooks, a mild conservative, and ...
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/01/david-brooks-david-corn-pbs-ted-rafael-cruz-satanic
All five paid staffers in the New Hampshire office of a pro-Ben Carson super-PAC have quit their jobs to volunteer for rival presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a state televisio...
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/staffers-quit-paid-jobs-carson-super-pac-volunteer-cruz
First things first. My favorite David Bowie song is “Heroes” (though I remember really being struck by its use in the 2001 movie, Moulin Rouge). But the song that comes to...
http://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ConnecticutEmploymentLawBlog/~3/aTUP-tyGAd8/
Last night’s Golden Globes are emblematic of a larger problem. It didn’t take long for last night’s 73rd annual Golden Globes Awards to mock transgender people for exi...
It was nearly two years to the day since MGM Resorts International won approval from Springfield voters to build its downtown casino, and tempers were flaring between the ...
http://www.masslive.com/mgm_springfield/index.ssf/2016/01/internal_emails_show_both_tens.html
Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Monday, Jan 11, 2016 · 7:57:14 PM +00:00 · David Nir [http://www.dailykos.com/...
In The Know is your daily briefing on Oklahoma policy-related news. Inclusion of a story does not necessarily mean endorsement by the Oklahoma Policy Institute. Click here [ht...
http://okpolicy.org/know-state-finance-secretary-blasts-tulsa-chamber-leader-criticizing-tax-cuts
Media figures have credited House Speaker Paul Ryan with thrusting the supposedly "forgotten" issue of poverty into the 2016 Republican presidential race following his partici...
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/JpMJRaedAus/207893