(CNN)President Donald Trump, ever impulsive, often acts against his own interests. But nothing tops his self-defeating resistance to mask wearing during the coronavirus pandemic.His dogged stance, mimicked by supporters, undercuts efforts by public health officials to stop the summer MORE
When Attorney General William P. Barr announced the ousting of Geoffrey Berman — the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York — Barr also announced his permanent replacement would be Jay Clayton, the MORE
Joe Biden may be ahead in national and many battleground polls, but Democrats are still fretting about whether key constituencies will turn out in November. In particular, they worry about the level of support from MORE
Since it’s Father’s Day, 2020, and since a breather from all things Trumpish, rally-ish, and otherwise crazy would be a nice break, I’ve my Dad and the role of Dad on my mind. Not everyone’s MORE
Earlier Thursday evening, our ‘president’ retweeted “a clip of a black toddler and a white toddler edited to include a CNN chyron reading ‘terrified todler[sic] runs from racist baby.’” Twitter flagged Trump’s tweet as “manipulated MORE
You are beginning your careers at a tumultuous time. More than 110,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, more than 40 million are unemployed, and our nation is hurting from racial, social and human injustice. Desperation, MORE
The killing of George Floyd is probably the only time several friends and acquaintances have written me about a racist killing. […] One message especially stuck out. “Are you actually happy not to live in MORE
“We have so many miseries in American society because rich people are hoarding all of our resources. We shouldn’t applaud them when they toss us a few dollars as philanthropy.” That’s a very sad but MORE
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I listened to The President as he spoke at Ft. McHenry today; he spoke of the invisible enemy we are fighting: he spoke of the “tens of thousands” in our Military who had answered the MORE
Many of the workers across the country are working elbow to elbow six days a week, eight hours a day. For them, social distancing in the workplace is but a dream. I’ve spent the past MORE
I keep coming back to George Orwell’s “1984” and the notion that President Trump is bathing himself — and the rest of us — in the comforts of ignorance. If you pay attention to his news conferences MORE
In Leonard Pitts Jr’s latest column, he calls out Moscow Mitch for suggesting ‘President Obama should have kept his mouth shut.’ Dear Mitch McConnell: Why don’t you just go ahead and call Barack Obama the MORE
Then came a pandemic during the presidency of Donald Trump. Note: Flanagan has been diagnosed with Stage IV Metastatic Cancer. This is a recurrence; she was first diagnosed when her twin sons were in kindergarten; MORE
A week has passed since armed protesters jammed the streets of the Michigan capitol and made their way to the spectator gallery of the state senate chamber, worrying people around the country that Michigan’s government MORE
Conservative commentator and abortion opponent Ben Shapiro once said he wouldn’t even consider aborting Baby Hitler if he had the chance. But based on an interview Shapiro had on Tuesday with political commentator Dave Rubin, maybe your grandma’s life MORE
In the 1950s, when a reporter asked medical researcher Jonas Salk who owned the patent on the new polio vaccine, he replied, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent MORE
[The Trump Briefings] . . . also crystallize precisely what is so abhorrent about his low-stakes, entertainment-inflected approach to politics. The briefings are meant to convey information about, literally, life and death. And within a MORE
What do an American comedian and an 18th-century French philosopher have to do with the coronavirus? These past days, when I’ve read the latest coronavirus news, I can’t help but think of Stephen Colbert and MORE
Austin Eubanks was 17 years old on April 20, 1999. He was in the library at lunchtime with his best friend Corey DePooter planning their next fishing trip before heading to the cafeteria. When they MORE
There has never been an American president as spiritually impoverished as Donald Trump. And his spiritual poverty, like an overdrawn checking account that keeps imposing new penalties on a customer already in difficult straits, is MORE
Vanished are the public rallies, primary night parties, door knocking, and offices in key states, as the likely Democratic candidate Joe Biden shifts to a virtual campaign. The Biden team will have to learn as MORE
After the Ebola epidemic in 2014, Bill Gates gave a TED Talks with what he predicted was coming, a pandemic originating with a virus. He discussed how we needed to prepare for it, because at MORE
“I think the entire package provides economic relief overall for about 10 weeks,” Mnuchin explained. “Hopefully we will kill this virus quicker and we won’t need it, but we have liquidity to put into the MORE
Not really. Deserve has nothing to do with presidential politics or the coronavirus. But somebody has something to do with what’s happening to Biden: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic governor of New York. Cuomo has everything to MORE