September 25, 2020The verdict on the Breonna Taylor trial comes in.
September 17, 2020It was an unruly day for the administration
September 15, 2020Today’s big story is the growing threat of violence on the part of Trump loyalists in the administration, including the president himself.
September 2, 2020Our society prizes the detached, even-handed journalist. In Trump’s America, the job is more difficult, complicated, and imperiled than ever
September 1, 2020Trump is exaggerating the violence in cities to the point of caricature — countering statements by local and state law enforcement.
July 2, 2020Coronavirus, the Russia bounty scandal, and the upcoming election continue to dominate America’s news.
June 9, 2020The day started with Trump tweeting that the 75-year-old Buffalo, New York, man shoved to the ground by police and left bleeding and unconscious “could be an ANTIFA provocateur” who might have been part of a “set up.”
June 8, 2020Trump and the GOP are trying to change the poll numbers because they have lost control over the country’s narrative. The president rode to the White House on the argument that people of color and women were criminal socialists demanding a government handout, paid for by taxes on hardworking white men, but all of a sudden, with white police officers murdering a handcuffed Black man, and police riots during protests over that killing, it is ...
March 14, 2020The tendency of Republicans both to respond to and sow fear and panic has been with us for decades. Yet during the coronavirus pandemic, to anyone who bothers to look, we are seeing a new and strangely unremarked twist to their behavior, a development that gives valuable -- and chilling -- insight into Republican psychology.
August 11, 2017It’s not just the president’s tweets that are plagiarized from stupid arguments on Fox News, it’s his policy proposals too.
