“Story highlights June 1 is the official start of hurricane season, but we've already had two named storms La Niña could develop by late summer and increase hurricane activity It's been over a decade since the last major hurricane made landfall in the United States 1) It's already started! Despite the fact that hurricane season officially starts on June 1 and ends on November 30, tropical systems can form during any month of the year. But conditions are more favorable during the season, when ocean temperatures are wa...”

“The Sanders campaign emails are the most absurd shit you've ever seen. In a formal credentials challenge, Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign  on Friday  asked for the ouster of two "aggressive attack surrogates" for Hillary Clinton from key Democratic National Convention committees. The campaign called for the removal of Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy as a co-chairman of the Platform Committee and former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank as head of the Platform Committee. "Governor Malloy and Mr. Frank have both been aggre...”

“Trump Exposes the GOP's Dirty Secret: They Build Everything by Nurturing White Rage Donald Trump at the 09/14 Donald Trump rally at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. Photo Credit: Jamelle Bouie/Flickr CC Paul Ryan is angry with Donald Trump, not so much for failing to espouse conservative values, as for exposing America's dirty little secret—white rage: that deep-seated determination to block black progress in this country. For years, conservative politicians have relied upon the cover...”

“Back in February, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) did something no other senator was willing to do at the time: the Alabama Republican endorsed Donald Trump's presidential campaign. And now that the New York Republican is the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Sessions is helping lead the charge, urging others in the GOP to get in line.   The senator told Politico , in reference to House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) skepticism, "[O]n some of these issues, Trump is where the Republicans are and if you're going...”

“Take a deep breath and dig deeper into the data. bymandesigns/Thinkstock Early general-election polls have been released, and liberals are freaking out . Donald Trump is almost dead even with Hillary Clinton in the RealClearPolitics average of national surveys, upending assumptions that the race wouldn't be close. Some Democrats are denouncing the polls as skewed. Others are sinking into panic or fatalism. Will Saletan writes about politics, science, technology, and other stuff for Slate . He's the au...”

“*The following is an opinion column by R Muse * Over the course of Barack Obama's tenure in the Oval Office, Republicans have steadily made being blatantly racist wildly popular among far too many Americans. All that pre-production work accomplished was conditioning the nation for a racist like Donald Trump who abandoned the use of Republican's typical dog whistles and innuendos and went all in portraying non-whites as a plague on America. No group has suffered Trump's racist assaults more than Hispanics, and the D...”

“Story highlights Dean Obeidallah says Trump's attack on a well qualified and impartial judge, is a shocking case of bigotry Obeidallah: Trump is speaking on behalf of one person -- himself Trump dedicated an incredible 12 minutes of his campaign speech to slam Curiel. First, Trump demanded the judge recuse himself because he was a "hater" who had been nominated by President Obama. Then, only a short time after the crowd had been chanting "build that wall," Trump told his rabid fans that Curiel was a " Mexican ." But...”

“Hundreds of pages ofTrump University internal documents were released on Tuesday in connection anongoing fraud lawsuitagainst the presumptive Republican presidential nominee'snow defunct series of courses on real estate and investing. The documents include sales and marketing "playbooks" from 2007 through 2010. Before the documents were released, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman slammed Donald Trump and his eponymous Trump University, Politico reported. His remarks followed a court decision by Judge Gonz...”

“WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump looked like a fool and a fraud on Sunday. But what else is new? Even the most ardent Trumpistas would have to admit that Trump's appearance at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally was, as spectacles go, pretty pathetic. It was supposed to be a vast, multitudinous gathering on the plaza in front of the Lincoln Memorial, one of the greatest and most historic public spaces in the nation. Instead, Trump drew a paltry crowd estimated by organizers at perhaps 5,000. As Trump might say i...”

“Where Did Donald Trump Send Veterans' Millions? Unfavorable news reports on fundraiser money dogged the Republican nominee. Trump, it seems, couldn't stand it anymore. Lucas Jackson / Reuters Donald Trump has a problem following through. He advocated for banning Muslims from U.S. soil, before qualifying all his policy proposals as "a suggestion." He campaigned on the premise he would self-fund his race, before deciding to raise money after all . So when news reports sug...”