Part way through former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s speech on the first night of the GOP convention — just before she delved into a biographical story about how her Indian parents “faced discrimination and hardship” as she was growing up, and then toured through wrenching moments of her governorship, …
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On Saturday, President Donald Trump fired off one of his most deranged, conspiratorial, and flat-out terrifying tweets since he took office — which at this point is really saying something. “The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people …
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WASHINGTON — Clocking in at nearly 1,000 pages and drawing on three-and-a-half years of work and more than a million documents, the latest report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is perhaps the most complete accounting yet of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election to damage Hillary Clinton …
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The socially distanced Democratic National Convention is sure to give us some high-tech bloopers. <<I’m sorry Governor Cuomo, you’re going to need to take yourself off mute.>> But without live delegates, in a physical stadium, with actual balloons and streamers, and politicians trying to project the best (if not most …
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In the pandemic election of 2020, restricting access to the ballot box is as simple as restricting access to the mailbox. And this week, Donald Trump accelerated efforts to do just that. On Thursday, he openly linked his efforts to block full funding of the postal service with his crusade …
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After decades of spreading stupidity at a super-human clip, Rep. Louie Gohmert is now doing his best to spread a deadly virus. The Texas Republican tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday prior to joining President Trump aboard Air Force One for a trip to Texas, where the pandemic is currently …
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Attorney General William Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to answer for the Trump administration’s move to invade cities like Portland, Oregon, where federal agents have recently been brutalizing demonstrators. He ran into questioning from committee Democrats, particularly Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). The Democrat took the attorney …
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The president is so motivated to push the false narrative that Joe Biden wants to defund the police that he may have started to believe it himself. During a portion of an interview with Chris Wallace that will air in full this coming Sunday on Fox News, Trump insisted that …
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A year ago today, author Ta-Nehisi Coates and others testified on Capitol Hill at a House hearing on H.R. 40, a bill meant to establish merely a commission to study the possibility of granting reparations to African Americans as recompense for the work of their enslaved forebears. Coates, famously, had …
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The pepper spray. That’s when it really started to get out of hand. The police lined up in front of the entry to Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn fired it into the growing congregation of demonstrators before them in high, arching, indiscriminate streams. It looked like a fountain. Protesters emerged …
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