As Trump Ignores Virus Crisis, Republicans Start to Contradict Him  —  President Trump continues to press for a quick return to life as usual, but Republicans who fear a rampaging disease and angry voters are increasingly going their own way.  —  President Trump's failure to contain …

Trump Leans Into False Virus Claims in Combative Fox News Interview  —  The president grew agitated as he was fact-checked on polling, race relations and the coronavirus response by Chris Wallace of Fox News.  —  WASHINGTON — An agitated President Trump offered a string of combative …

I Was a Military COVID Planner.  Trust Me: Texas Is in Deep, Deep Trouble  —  Things are pretty bad right now in the Lone Star State.  But the real pain is likely to come during hurricane season, when as many as 19 named storms are projected to hit.  —  Like many of my fellow Texans …

Trump's made-for-TV fascism in Portland won't get him re-elected.  It may get someone killed  —  Some have dubbed it the “Say Anything” shooting, but what happened in Portland earlier this month to 26-year-old Donavan LaBella after he held up an old-school boom box and started blaring …

Night 51: Riot declared at police union, tear gas used at Justice Center  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Protests on both sides of the river were met with police use of force Saturday on the 51st consecutive night of demonstrations against police brutality that were initially spurred by the death …

Roger Stone Uses Racial Slur on Radio Show  —  Mr. Stone, while being questioned about the commutation of his sentence by President Trump, used a racial slur in referring to his interviewer, who is Black.  —  During a live radio show on Saturday, Roger Stone, the political operative …

The family that owns The New York Times were slaveholders  —  It's far worse than I thought.  In addition to the many links between the family that owns The New York Times and the Civil War Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders.

John Lewis: Good Trouble  —  The life of the civil rights icon, who died Friday from cancer, is a testament to perseverance.  —  John Lewis stands at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, 50 years after he was beaten there on Bloody Sunday in 1965.  —  In 1965, as chair …

Trump says he aced this cognitive test.  Can you?  —  Are you a “very stable genius” like President Donald Trump?  —  Find out today by taking this cognitive test, which has been administered to Trump.  Trump bragged last week to Fox News host Sean Hannity that he “aced” …

What a Trump loss could look like  —  Polls show Trump trails Biden by double digits  —  Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author of the book, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party.”

U.S. Companies Lose Hope for Quick Rebound From Covid-19  —  CEOs overhaul strategies and staffing in acknowledgment of coronavirus's permanent impact on demand; ‘We cannot defy gravity’  —  Big U.S. companies are deciding March and April moves won't cut it.

‘No mask, no entry.  Is that clear enough?  That seems pretty clear, right?’ … We tried our best to be polite about it.  I'd frame it to customers like they were doing us this big favor: “Would you please consider wearing a mask?”  “May we offer you a free mask?”  “We sure do appreciate your cooperation.”

The Real White Fragility  —  Does the white upper class feel exhausted and oppressed by meritocracy?  —  In 2001, when I was still attending college, David Brooks wrote an essay for The Atlantic called “The Organization Kid,” in which he spent a lot of time with young Ivy Leaguers …

I'm Afro-Latino, but I can't join both the black and Hispanic caucuses in Congress.  That must change.  —  Ritchie Torres is the Democratic candidate for New York's 15th Congressional District.  —  Whenever I'm about to enter a new setting — like the New York City Council in 2014 or Congress in 2021 …