At the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump unapologetically rejected internationalism and trumpeted national sovereignty, leaving Europe to defend the world order and multilateralism.

Does torture lead to terror? Has the decadeslong abuse of political prisoners across the Muslim-majority world — not to mention in CIA black sites, U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, and the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay — fueled radicalization and extremism?

The White House and the Trump Organization would not comment on it. Further investigation by Mother Jones has unearthed a new element to the story: Chen has ties to important members of the Chinese ruling elite and to an organization considered a front group for Chinese military intelligence.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah, in Sarah Huckabee Sanders' absence, is completely unable to explain how China's $500 million loan for the purposes of building Indonesian Trump-branded hotels and amenities, doesn't violate the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

Education secretary Betsy DeVos shuts down investigations surrounding for-profit colleges that fraudulently misguide students about job placement and salary rates following graduation.

A few hundred million and all Trump's tough talk against China just melts away… Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

Jared Kushner puts the fail in failson. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has condemned Israel's recent actions while Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer remain silent.

Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University, said she can attest to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's kindness. But that's not what his confirmation hearing is about, she told the Senate Judiciary Committee. It's about "real people on the ground," she said’

Brett Kavanaugh is facing accusations of perjury … Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has suggested Kavanaugh lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his 2004 and 2006 hearings to become a federal judge. During those hearings Kavanaugh denied seeing files that detailed strategies for opposing Republican judicial nominees while he was associate counsel in the George W. Bush White House. Lisa Graves, former top aide to Senator Patrick Leahy, [has a] piece for Slate is: “I Wrote Some of the Stolen Memos That Brett Kavanaugh Lied to the Senate About.”

In this Majority Report clip, when progressives win primaries, centrist Dems need to fall in line to beat Republicans in the general.

There is a global struggle taking place of enormous consequence. Nothing less than the future of the planet – economically, socially and environmentally – is at stake.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos lost a lawsuit … accusing her department of wrongly delaying implementation of Obama-era regulations meant to protect student loan borrowers from predatory practices.

"We Negroes . . . done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an' stone."