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President Donald Trump encourages his followers to believe in discredited conspiracy theories, from opposing COVID-19 vaccines to claiming former President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election. While these beliefs help Trump personally, a new study reveals that the MAGA true believers who follow his lead could wind up paying dearly in their private lives.A scientific team led by University of Kent psychology researcher Ricky Green recently published a study in the peer-reviewed journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin about how men and women of all political persuasions react to conspiracy theories when dating online.“Political ori

Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) struggled to explain his sudden support for the removal of the Senate filibuster — despite Scott opposing similar nuclear options when Democrats were in the Senate majority.Scott’s collapse began when he complained of Senate Democrats blocking votes on bills favored by President Donald Trump.“They use this 60-vote threshold filibuster, which I think we ought to get rid of,” Scott told CNN anchor Kaitlin Collins.“Just a moment,” interrupted Collins. “Since you mentioned the filibuster and you said you should get rid of it, when Republicans were in the minority you described it repeatedly as vital and necessary to protect minority

Economist Scott Lincicome said the February Supreme Court ruling dismantling President Donald Trump’s illegal emergency order tariff was a big victory for the rule of law. But don’t think you’re getting reimbursed for all those costs you paid out while Trump was imposing illegal taxes on you.“[The court] … left tariff refunds to be worked out by lower federal courts, administration officials, and private parties — a situation that raised practical, legal, and economic questions. … But the tariff refund process is still far from perfect, and

President Donald Trump is waging political warfare against Indiana Republicans who did not vote for gerrymandering — but he is meeting opposition from members of his own party.“Even though Indiana state Senate leader Rodric Bray isn’t on anyone’s primary ballot next week, he is the ultimate target of President Donald Trump’s demand for political retribution,” the Indiana Capital Chronicle reported on Thursday. “Seven Republican senators who voted in December against redrawing Indiana’s U.S. House district maps are facing

President Donald Trump's "firehose of lunacy" indicates that he is experiencing cognitive decline, a retired US Naval War college professor explained — and America will be in peril until this fact is called out."Trump is a deeply disordered person, and it just bears repeating," Tom Nichols, a staff writer for The Atlantic, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace. "You know, Nicolle, you pointed out he carries around pictures of his golden ballroom. He also carries around the codes to 1,500 strategic nuclear weapons. He's the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces. He's the president. And like every president, he is the most powerful man in the world. And frankly, the things he's doing and the things he

President Donald Trump's plans for the Iran war are "unraveled" and too treacherous "for reality," warned the Republican leader's former Homeland Security chief of staff.The conversation began when MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace asked Miles Taylor, who worked for Trump during his first term, about the president's Iran war options."One involves a mission that, based on the Axios reporting, involves sending special forces in to dismantle, destroy, or steal the enriched uranium," Wallace asked. "I mean, that sounds like a riskier military operation than anything that's been contemplated to date. The other is to take over part of the Strait of Hormuz — the

An analyst says President Donald Trump’s behavior raises alarming questions about whether the 79-year-old man is mentally fit to be president, most recently when he seemed unaware of the Supreme Court’s Wednesday decision gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act.“When a reporter asked Trump about the high court’s decision several hours after its release, he appeared to have absolutely no idea what had happened,” reported MS NOW’s Steve Benen on Thursday, chronicling Trump asking when the ruling came out and saying he had missed it while talking to contractors about his proposed White House ballroom. Benen then listed other similar exc

President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday — and on Thursday, an expert pointed out that this may help crush the potentially massive Blue Wave of Democratic lawmakers in the 2026 midterm elections.“The Supreme Court’s April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais curtailed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the provision of the law responsible for the creation of majority-minority districts,” wrote Cook Political Report’s Erin Covey, an expert in handicapping US House races, on Thursday. “The ruling has prompted an effort to redraw Louisiana’s maps before the 2026 midte

In recent months, the Republican Party has seen a record high number of retirements from the House along with several from the Senate, while a number of GOP candidates have dropped out of races. They’ve offered all manner of justifications for this, but according to renowned Esquire political columnist Charles P. Pierce, the red wave of drop-outs can be summed up by one simple explanation: they’re afraid of losing. The late

Professor of Law Richard Hasen, an elections law expert, is denouncing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito as a “coward” who is either lying to himself or the American public, after authoring what has been called the “earthquake” decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which sharply erodes the Voting Rights Act.Alito’s “disastrous” majority opinion in Callais “essentially gutted what remains of the Voting Rights Act,” but he