We’re seeing a huge error, and a potential tragedy, unfold in real time. That’s a sentence that could apply to countless aspects of economic, medical, governmental, and environmental life at the moment. What I have in MORE
Donald Trump and his partisan sidekick William Barr have found a new secret ingredient to deflect attention from the coronavirus, economic depression and racist policing. After a 17-year hiatus on federal executions. Five men have MORE
The Kansas Republican claimed Donald Trump had strengthened NATO, which was the opposite of the truth. Pompeo insisted Trump’s failed policy toward North Korea was a success, which was pitifully untrue. The cabinet secretary said the MORE
It is 2020, after all, and there is no global shortage of demagogues and authoritarians making a joke of democratic processes. They stuff ballot boxes, jail opposition leaders, harass journalists, and threaten voters. They exploit MORE
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intelligence officials are targeting activists it considers “antifa” and attempting to tie them to a foreign power, according to a DHS intelligence report obtained exclusively by The Nation. While the MORE
To understand the uproar over the termination in legal circles, some context helps. S.D.N.Y. is famously and proudly independent. It embraces its nickname, the “Sovereign District of New York,” as a badge of honor. Sovereign, in MORE
Editorial: Poor Trump. He just cannot make the world understand that he inherited a mess from the Obama administration. Or was it China or WHO that’s to blame for Trump’s dithering and lies that caused MORE
At various times over the past three and a half years, many of us have asked what would happen if President Trump truly went over the edge or if his behavior became so frightening that MORE
CNN Senior Political Commentator and former top aide for President Obama’s two White House campaigns, David Axelrod, wrote and editorial for CNN that focused on how Obama’s vetting a team of lawyers began “an in-depth vetting MORE
In his latest editorial, Leonard Pitts Jr. proclaims he will not die of stupid: Someday, I’m going to die. This, I grudgingly accept. I have no idea how it’s going to happen. Maybe I will MORE
Politicians were feeling pressure during the pandemic. Businesses were agitating to reopen and deaths were going down, especially far away from the coastal cities that it had hit worst, first. It seemed time to declare MORE
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken. When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic MORE
Republican street theater, maybe even (or perhaps especially) when it threatens public safety or human decency, works like catnip to the mainstream media, who invariably trot out their prefabricated clichés about “economic anxiety.” Honorable exceptions MORE
We constantly hear about checks that at some point, most of us should receive to help fill the void during these trying times. We know our unemployment filings have now reached nearly 17 million people MORE
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,” wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919. A century later, it’s clear: The epicenter cannot hold. Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the world’s richest country to a MORE
Please help me. I no longer understand some of my fellow countrymen. In the midst—not the end—of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems that what I am watching, reading & hearing from the experts in the MORE
The GOP, conservative economists, unqualified pundits, and even the 73-year-old president of the United States have suggested that the short-term economic pain we have just begun inflicting on ourselves to slow the spread of coronavirus MORE
The president is crazy. We see that every day. But he is the president. He won the election – technically. So, we just have to live with it – having a president who is clinically MORE
Donald Trump is a creature of television. It informs how he thinks about the world, and it helped create his public persona. He ran for president as America’s first reality show candidate, and he has MORE
Because “outbreak” and “pandemic” and any of a dozen high-stakes words accompany dispatches about the deadly novel coronavirus, it’s not surprising, nor ill-advised, that the news media and financial markets respond with alarm to COVID-19. MORE
Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, his incoming team learned of a disease that could cause a pandemic, a strain of novel influenza known as H9N2. The disease had crashed health systems in Asia because they became MORE
In a tweet meant to offer support to the airline industry and assure the American public that ‘we will be stronger than ever before,’ Trump went full throttle racist and referred to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) as MORE
The CDC has refused to publish the number of Americans who have actually been tested, reporting only the number of positive results. On Monday, Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the FDA, estimated that “by the MORE
If President Trump and his propagandists get their way, no one will ever raise a peep of criticism over his handling of coronavirus — thus placing our government’s response to a looming public health emergency beyond MORE
“California will receive 13 extra seats in Congress by including 10 million illegal aliens in the 2020 U.S. Census.” The seniors are participating in a workshop sponsored by the nonprofit Senior Planetcalled “How to Spot Fake MORE