Politics

I’m going to start with the most important piece of information in this column: If you are voting by mail, VOTE NOW AND DO NOT WAIT. Now here’s the explanation why. On Monday night, the Supreme Court let stand a Pennsylvania ruling that allows ballots to be counted that are …

In his first public event since leaving Walter Reed Medical Center this week, President Trump who continues to remain silent about whether he is now free of the virus, instead, dangerously called on his supporters to gather on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday to hear him …

This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Next Tuesday night President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will travel to Cleveland, Ohio, to square off in the first of …

Last Friday, on the night that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Donald Trump made a campaign appearance in Bemidji, a small city in northern Minnesota. Trump played to the base instincts of an adoring crowd at the airport, where MAGA hats outnumbered face masks by an extraordinary margin — before he …

Attorney General William Barr compared virus stay-at-home orders, a safety measure meant to save American lives, to the scourge of American slavery. Barr made the lopsided remarks by first asserting a factless claim that suggested a “national lockdown” had been in place at one time during the pandemic. Although there …

“Who makes the game?” former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling asked his girlfriend in 2014. “Do I make the game, or do they make the game?” The NBA soon answered Sterling by banning him from the league for life shortly after that racist tirade, caught on tape, became public. …

The president and his minions are so determined to lie about mail-in voter fraud, they are losing track of the false assertions they’ve made only moments ago. While senior advisor to President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, tried to push his father in-law’s voter suppression lie on Sunday, he lost his …

The people who should most want to see a new relief deal made are President Trump and his advisers, for their future employment is at stake. This election — were it to be conducted fairly — is about this pandemic and the more than 200,000 deaths it has caused according …

Kanye West’s presidential campaign is largely a sideshow, but in swing states like Wisconsin, it matters. West has missed too many filing deadlines to appear on most state ballots come November. But, by successfully submitting in time in Wisconsin on Tuesday, the rap superstar could potentially impact the general election …

CNN’s Brianna Keilar did a deep dive into President Trump’s affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin, beginning with how Trump has labeled as a “hoax” the U.S. intelligence reports that Putin placed bounties on American soldiers. “The president is refusing to condemn or even acknowledge reports that Russia put bounties …