What Donald Trump’s ‘Access Hollywood’ Weekend Says About 2020
Donald J. Trump, down and unwilling to get out, saw only one way back up: Go lower. Two days had passed since the signal humiliation of his political life — the publication of audio in which Mr. Trump boasted about forcing himself on women — and the candidate was desperate […]
Alabama Senate Race: Sessions Faces Voters After Years of Trump Scorn
ROBERTSDALE, Ala. — For a moment, the whole room was on his side. Scores of voters applauded vigorously on Saturday morning as Jeff Sessions recounted the highlights of his two-decade Senate career as a conservative Republican, like the time he led the charge against Obama-era trade legislation, or the many […]
Health Care Takes Center Stage in Battle for Congress During Pandemic
WASHINGTON — In his two newest campaign advertisements, Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana portrays himself as a health care savior, featuring local nurses who say his expansion of public health insurance rescued Montanans and their hospitals. Steve Daines, the first-term Republican senator whom Mr. Bullock is trying to unseat, has […]
Graham to Call Mueller to Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee
WASHINGTON — Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said on Sunday that he would call the former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to testify before his panel about the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and ties to […]
Who Was That Masked Man?
In the end, the most surprising aspect of President Donald J. Trump’s decision to finally, months after his own advisers recommended it, bow to medical wisdom and wear a face mask was not that he did it at all — even in his alternate reality, where we are winning against […]
Five Guys Employees Refuse To Serve Alabama Cops – End Up Getting Fired
Some employees of a Five Guys restaurant in Alabama just got hit with a brutal dose of karma after they refused to serve police officers. Five Guys have mitigated all employees involved in the anti-police instance. It all started last Tuesday, when three officers with the Daphne Police Department went […]
Ja’Ron Smith’s Balancing Act: A Black Republican Navigates the Trump White House
WASHINGTON — In the days after Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a white neighborhood watch volunteer, Ja’Ron Smith was among a group of congressional aides who pulled on hoodies and stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in protest. The demonstration was a powerful statement: Mr. Martin, […]