Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the ...

If Trump is looking for actual war heroes, I might refer him to some of the people whose service he denigrated both before ...

If Trump is taking tactical advice from Putin about how to hold an election, that doesn’t bode well for the future of ...

The last time the president ordered officials to apply black paint to border barriers, it was an expensive failure. Naturally ...

To criticize the governor's content as childish, foolish and unserious is to necessarily criticize Trump’s content as ...

The president claims to have evidence that his deployments in Washington, D.C., are working. A closer look suggests his proof ...

The FBI has struggled in recent months, but with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joining the leadership team, things ...

Earlier this year, five former defense secretaries condemned the Pentagon’s military leadership purge as “reckless.” It has ...

See you tomorrow. Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy ...

Republican officials want their party’s voters to cast their ballots through the mail. The president’s rhetoric is ...

In the six wars that I’ve settled, we haven’t had a ceasefire," the president said. Both parts of that sentence are ...

The president and his team aren’t just taking over Washington, D.C., they’re also putting on a show, to be exploited for ...