BY Heather Cox Richardson | September 17, 2020 | Letters From an American
At a “town hall” in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the president faced ordinary Americans, who asked basic questions about health care, mask wearing, and so on, and received the litany and lies. The White House has been doing damage control from the event all day. Read More
BY Bill Moyers | September 16, 2020 | Moyers on Democracy
Historian and media critic Eric Alterman talks with Bill Moyers about whether democracy can survive our lying presidents. Read More
BY Steven Harper | September 15, 2020 | Pandemic Timeline
COVID-19 has infected more than 88,000 students, faculty and staff at colleges and universities in all 50 states. Since late August alone, more than 61,000 cases have been reported. And the fall semester has only begun. Read More
BY Heather Cox Richardson | September 15, 2020 | Letters From an American
Today’s big story is the growing threat of violence on the part of Trump loyalists in the administration, including the president himself. Read More
BY Heather Cox Richardson | September 13, 2020 | Letters From an American
Department of Health and Human Services have been altering the weekly scientific reports issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the course of the coronavirus pandemic. They believe the reports are undermining Trump’s cheery pronouncements about the disease, and claim there is a “deep state” at the CDC determined to hurt the president. Read More
BY Heather Cox Richardson | September 12, 2020 | Letters From an American
Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed almost 3000 of us on this date in 2001. It feels wrong to write about daily news today and yet, as we approach 200,000 dead from a mismanaged pandemic and face unprecedented assaults on our national government, it also feels wrong not to. Read More
BY Bill Moyers | September 11, 2020 | Moyers on Democracy
One of America’s leading trial lawyers has taken Donald Trump to court, to stop what he describes as a conspiracy by the president, the postmaster general, and the Postal Service itself to rig the coming election. Read More
BY Vernon Loeb, Marianne Lavelle and Stacy Feldman | September 11, 2020 | Environment
Now seems like a good time for a reminder that the official Republican Party platform for 2020 — recycled from 2016 — barely mentions climate change, except to say that market forces and innovations will solve it. In a bulleted list of priorities the Trump campaign released on the eve of the Republican Convention was a pledge to continue the president's "deregulatory agenda for energy independence." So let's take a look at what that agenda has achieved with a rundown of some 159 climate-related actions Trump has taken since 2017. This post originally appeared at InsideClimateNews, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, non-profit, non-partisan ... Read More
BY James D. Zirin | September 11, 2020 | Moyers on Democracy
Bill Barr’s Justice Department has intervened in the civil suit for libel brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll. Carroll claims Trump raped her many years before he was President. That alleged conduct is most likely beyond any period of limitations. Read More
BY Andrew Bacevich | September 11, 2020 | War & Peace
This post first appeared on TomDispatch. It’s only mid-afternoon and Army Lieutenant General Victor Constant has already had a bad day.1 Soon after he arrived at the office at 0700, the Chief2 had called. “Come see me. We need to talk.” The call was not unexpected. Any day now, POTUS3 will announce the next four-star to command the war effort in Afghanistan — how many have there been? — and Constant felt certain that he’d be tapped for the job. He’d certainly earned it. Multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and, worse still, at the Pentagon. If anyone deserved that fourth star, he did. Unfortunately, the Chief ... Read More
BY Heather Cox Richardson | September 11, 2020 | Letters From an American
While there was continuing fallout today from the story that Trump lied to the American people about the seriousness of the coronavirus, the breaking stories were mostly about securing the election. Overwhelmingly, the stories today were about controlling the flow of information to voters. Read More
