One word has become unavoidable on the campaign trail — woke. But what does it really mean and where does it come from? The word has a long and serious history in Black culture. Woke - it's just ...

MSNBC's Ali Velshi breaks down Donald Trump's antiquated thinking on the way the American economy works and how his use of tariffs has created chaos. Velshi also reacts to Trump's attacks against ...

Second in the line of presidential succession after the vice president, the speaker of the House occupies a central role in our national government. But what is it that a speaker actually does?

In 1984, Sarah Beckwith was raped at knifepoint by a stranger on a canal path in London. Forty years on, Beckwith writes, prompted by a chance return to that very place, she began to suspect that ...