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At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden last week, a maskless Donald Trump appealed directly to a constituency that could determine his political fate in November’s election: America’s seniors. “This is a big day for seniors,” Trump declared, unveiling a plan to lower the cost of insulin for many Medicare recipients. He touted […] More
Fire, pestilence and a country at war with itself: the Trump presidency is over Robert Reich A pandemic unabated, an economy in meltdown, cities in chaos over police killings. All our supposed leader does is tweet Donald Trump looks back as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday. […] More
As people protest across the US, Donald Trump and Joe Biden have offered divergent responses that point to a divisive political debate on race relations Play Video 2:48 How the killing of George Floyd has upended America – video report Riots in Minneapolis and across the US triggered by video footage showing George Floyd, a […] More
Jared Kushner is a Know Nothing – not just because he has failed on so many fronts Sidney Blumenthal Trump’s son-in-law wants a miniature Republican platform. It is a move with strong parallels – but not to the party of Lincoln Jared Kushner attends a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Photograph: […] More
F ew things are more unexpected than a genuinely inspirational memoir by a freshman member of Congress. If you’re looking for the perfect antidote to the perpetual tweetstorm of insanity and hatred from Donald Trump, try this beautiful new book from the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar. This migrant from Somalia came from a family of teachers and […] More
Opinion Donald Trump Will Trump dispute the 2020 election results? His tweets this week suggest so Lawrence Douglas Trump’s attack on mail-in ballots raise the possibility that, if he loses in November, he would reject the validity of the vote ‘The president is defaming not an individual but the integrity of our electoral process.’ Photograph: […] More
As the toll of Americans killed by the coronavirus passed 100,000, the president was lashing out at Twitter for factchecking his posts Joe Biden: ‘My fellow Americans, there are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they are forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief.’ Photograph: Facebook | Joe Biden […] More
The fight to vote US elections 2020 Revealed: conservative group fighting to restrict voting tied to powerful dark money network Honest Elections Project, part of network that pushed supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh, is now focusing on voting restrictions Read our full coverage of US voting rights Backed by a dark money group funded by […] More
