Christopher Murphy

Another "run of the mill" corruption story - relevant to today's hearing on Trump's Attorney General nominee: It's the story of Grab A Gun, a company that put Don Jr. on its board and (VOILA!) got...

ICE has shot and killed 10 people since Trump came back into office. 2 more in the last week. In addition, 50 people have died in ICE detention. ICE has become a killing machine. We cannot let thi...

The CLARITY Act is the bill supported by the crypto industry to increase their reach into our banking system and broader economy. There are many problems with the bill, but most egregious is that ...

Trump is trying to destroy academic freedom because he sees it as an impediment to his corruption of our democracy. I know university leaders, like those at Yale, are in a tough position given his ...

Every previous President knew a war with Iran would end up with this kind of chaos, driving up prices for Americans and getting thousands killed. Trump just didn’t give a crap because he and his ...

Tonight the Senate is voting to start debate on the annual defense bill. It's essentially an Iran War authorization bill. A totally unprecedented 50% increase in spending to fund the war without an...

8/ Trump has no way out. Iran is emboldened. Their hardliners have control, and they likely aren't going to do a meaningful nuclear deal or give up control of the Strait. And more strikes just wea...

7/ Second, this war is bankrupting our country. It's already cost $100 billion. Cuts to health care and education and road improvement are on their way to pay for the war. And, our weapons stockpi...

6/ The biggest problem with this strategy is that Iran knows Trump can't bomb forever. Why? First, as long as the war is ongoing, the Strait remains closed and gas prices rise. Trump won't keep it...

5/ And so Trump's only option is to start bombing again and just hope and pray that Iran changes its mind. It's just lunacy, and it's basically been his strategy from the beginning. https://t.co/2q...

4/ Then Trump signed a ceasefire deal with Tehran that gave Iran control of the Strait (and released sanctions!). Just a horrible mistake (probably just basic incompetence). Oman (our ally!) and ...

3/ What a mistake it was to take out the old doddering Supreme Leader and allow more dangerous hardliners to replace him. The massive turnout for Khomeini's funeral just verified hardline control...

2/ The basic truth is Trump has no path to a deal with Iran. Iran will not give up their nuclear program now that they have taken America's best military shot and survived. And Iran will not giv...

Predictably, full scale war has broken out again with Iran. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Gas prices are spiking again. The bottom line? Trump has no moves to make. His spiraling incompetence h...

I fought with Lindsey more than I worked with him. But if there was a big issue before the Senate, one thing was true: you couldn't avoid him. He was a force of nature. I remember negotiating with...

The Paramount-Warner merger is illegal. The 2nd and 5th biggest studios combining. 200M subscribers. Prices will go through the roof. But free speech will die too. Because the owners have cut a de...

The fact that Paramount is big enough that they think a threat to boycott California would scare their AG into not suing to stop their merger…is not helpful in their argument that their market powe...

Good to regularly check in on whether the big Trump foreign policy “announcements” - that the press covers so dutifully - ever turn out to be real. Because they never do.

Stopped by the Bloomfield Senior Center today with @RepJohnLarson to talk about his bill to increase Social Security benefits and make the system solvent. I also got to lose badly at ping pong and ...

In the most affluent, most powerful nation in the world, everyone who works full time should be able to pay their bills. A minimum wage should be a living wage. And that’s $25 an hour. The billio...