The president has left little doubt that he sees himself as leader of a modern grievance movement animated by civic strife and marked by calls for ‘white power,’ the phrase chanted in a video Trump retweeted last weekend.
Category: Politics
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On the country’s birthday, Biden offers hopeful counterpoint to Trump’s message
The dueling messages highlight the vastly different ways Biden and Trump have responded to the country’s racial reckoning.
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In Trump’s new version of American carnage, the threat isn’t immigrants or foreign nations. It’s other Americans.
The president made clear that his reelection message will do little to try to heal or unify the country but rather aims to drive a deeper wedge into the nation’s racial and cultural divides.
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Historians question Trump’s choice of ‘heroes’ for national garden monument
Trump has railed against the movement to remove Confederate statues and racially charged iconography. His list of heroes includes Republicans like Reagan and Scalia, but no Democratic presidents, as well as Patton but no Eisenhower
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As coronavirus rebounds, more patients are being hospitalized and capacity is stretched
Rise in hospitalizations is alarming, since it may presage a rise in deaths following the explosion in cases in the South and West.
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Supreme Court says Alabama does not have to loosen ballot restrictions because of virus
Lower courts had said requirements were too onerous during coronavirus spike.
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A day after her potentially explosive book gets go-ahead, Mary Trump asks court to lift restraining order against her
In her first public comments, she says in an affidavit that she was misled by family into signing a confidentiality agreement in an inheritance case two decades ago.
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Secret Service agents preparing for Pence Arizona trip contracted coronavirus
This is the second time in recent weeks that Secret Service agents preparing for a White House or campaign event outside of Washington have contracted the virus.
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Trump to hold Fourth of July gathering at Mount Rushmore as coronavirus surges
The attendees at President Trump’s event will not be required to social distance or wear masks.
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Voting rules changed quickly for the primaries. But the battle over how Americans will cast ballots in the fall is just heating up.
More than 60 lawsuits related to absentee voting and other rules in two dozen states are now wending their way through the courts, according to a tally by The Washington Post.
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Symone Sanders, Biden’s top African American aide, faces pressure from all sides
As the most senior African American staffer in Biden’s orbit, Sanders faces pressure to explain Biden’s record to activists, while helping him navigate this explosive moment.
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Treasury, SBA appear to miss deadline to disclose small business loan data
Administration officials had told lawmakers that Paycheck Protection Plan data would be released by the end of the week.
