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The US presidential election is in 2 days. I think I speak for most everyone when I say: WHEW. THANK ALL RELEVANT DEITIES THIS FUCKING THING IS ALMOST OVER. This election has been a ghastly spectacle—an inescapable carnival of bullshit that has haunted...

Trump’s lies have a purpose. They are an assault on democracy. Ned Resnikoff Senior editor at @thinkprogress Donald Trump is winning the war on reality. Welcome to the age of nightmares. All politicians lie. In a democracy, they usually tell lies...

Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen Lunchtime summary Ed Miliband on the lessons progressives can learn from Trump Afternoon summary 3.38pm GMT Philip Hammond says China and the UK are enjoying a "golden era"...

Buzzfeed has an article that consists of the verbatim remarks of Stephen Bannon at a Vatican conference in 2014. Since this was pre-Trump, these are not filtered for the presidential campaign (though some of them may still be filtered the way all ideologues...

By Danny Sjursen | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – The United States has already lost — its war for the Middle East, that is. Having taken my own crack at combat soldiering in both Iraq and Afghanistan, that couldn’t be clearer to me. Unfortunately, it’s evidently...