Like many of you, I spent the better part of last week being excited about the announcement of Sen. Kamala Harris being Joe Biden’s running mate. With all that excitement in mind, I couldn’t help thinking about a thread that my colleague David Neiwert posted a few months back about perhaps the most infamous vice presidential candidate of all time: Sarah Palin.
After restricting the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to two hours a night of coverage, the cable news networks already folded and gave the Republican National Convention (RNC) added air time for a typical, lie-filled Donald Trump rant.
The same weekend President Donald Trump’s team revealed that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway would be speaking at the Republican National Convention, the mother of four announced she would be stepping away from her official duties at the end of the month following her teen daughter’s threatened emancipation.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey face felony charges of unlawful use of a weapon for waving their firearms at the demonstrators in June.
The problem, she argued, is unions.
She had planned to speak at the Republican National Convention. He just kept tweeting.
The Trump campaign was slapped back hard by a federal district court judge in Pennsylvania Sunday in its attempt to keep the state from conducting a safe and fair election in November. The judge effectively stopped Trump’s effort to keep the state from expanding mail-in voting and installing ballot drop boxes, staying the suit while state court cases about voting are in the works.
On Friday, the House Ethics Committee gave out the lightest admonishment to Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida for his obstructing justice tweet back in February of 2019. This was when Rep. Gaetz publicly threatened former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen. The statement came right before Cohen was set to testify under oath about his former boss. Rep. Gaetz followed that up by deleting the tweet and then apologizing, sort of. The ethics committee said that Rep.
The problems were less severe than they first appeared. But there are other reasons to keep the heat on Louis DeJoy.
The shooting of Jacob Blake on Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is at once freshly horrifying and achingly familiar, in the way that only a police shooting in the United States in 2020 can be.The Kenosha shooting has the dubious distinction of being the first high-profile shooting of a Black man by police since massive Black Lives Matter protests erupted earlier this summer, bringing with them enormous—but potentially ephemeral—shifts in public opinion.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.PAT GREENHOUSE / THE BOSTON GLOBE / GETTYFive months into the coronavirus recession, millions of Americans remain unemployed. Much of the temporary assistance authorized at the start of the outbreak has been cut off, leaving many Americans in the lurch.
Insiders say Bob Unanue endorsed Trump as part of a plan to keep his job.
Giancarlo Granda says he developed a sexual relationship with Becki Falwell and that her husband Jerry Falwell enjoyed looking on.
“When you have $60 billion less going to families,” former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, “that means that there’s going to be something close to that less in spending.
As the Republican National Convention gets underway this week, we look at how the party has openly embraced the far-right conspiracy theory known as QAnon, which claims, among other things, that President Trump is secretly at war with a deep state cabal of Satan-worshiping elites who run a child sex trafficking operation.
President Trump’s former campaign CEO and White House adviser, Steve Bannon, is his sixth close associate to face criminal charges by the Department of Justice. Bannon and three others are accused of defrauding donors to We Build the Wall, a private effort to build a wall along the Mexican border, and redirecting funds to fund their own lavish lifestyles.
The battle over the future of the United States Postal Service is intensifying, with a record number of mail-in ballots expected to be cast in the 2020 presidential election, and Democrats and Republicans locked in a fight over the future of the agency. Historian Philip Rubio, who teaches at North Carolina A&T State University and worked as a mail carrier for two decades before that, says decades of political interference have caused a “manufactured crisis” at the U.S.
We open on a Chihuahua. Salsa music blares in the background. Where are we? Juárez, Havana, or Fort Worth, it doesn’t matter—this is a land of yearning and appetite. The dog sees something in the distance: a pink collar. A potential mate. We keep pace as he runs, risking it all for love.But when he finally reaches her, he blows right past, barely registering her presence. He parks himself in front of a taco-wielding teen as the music trails off uncertainly.
Some time ago, I woke up in a hotel room unable to determine where I was in the world. The room was like any other these days, with its neutral bedding, uncomfortable bouclé lounge chair, and wood-veneer accent wall—tasteful, but purgatorial. The eerie uniformity extended well beyond the interior design too: The building itself felt like it could’ve been located in any number of metropolises across the globe.
Only a few short years ago, Chad Mayes was the Republican leader in the California State Assembly. Now he’s out of the party, running for reelection as an independent. Ahead of the Republican National Convention, he joins Edward-Isaac Dovere on the podcast The Ticket: Politics from the Atlantic to discuss the GOP and the long impact of Donald Trump.
Parenting advice on childhood grief, substance abuse, and indecision.
Slate Money on the USPS, productivity, and Citigroups’s big blunder.
A scandal-by-scandal breakdown of what’s really gone wrong with the mail.
Words of praise in the White House Rose Garden led to calls for boycott.
The Trump donor’s qualifications and vetting were both highly unusual, according to new congressional testimony.
“The way that you build public trust is that you tell the truth,” says one health adviser.
A Supreme Court decision on the lawsuit isn’t likely until the spring.
Monday’s decision didn’t address other provisions of Trump’s revised nondiscrimination rules.
