As a direct result of being a Trump-backing toady, Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, a hack during the best of times, is in serious danger of losing his seat to Democratic opponent MJ Hegar in the November elections. In an attempt to stanch the bleeding, Cornyn met with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s editorial board to (ahem) explain himself.
The Trump administration is a disaster. It was a garbage fire when it began, but that ongoing fire, stoked by the entire Republican Party, has led to an increase in authoritarian use of law enforcement and ICE forces to dehumanize people all across our country.
During a mostly maskless Michigan rally, malevolent blowhard Donald Trump once again attacked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over the state’s pandemic restrictions, despite Whitmer recently being revealed as the primary target of a domestic terrorism plot after Trump’s previous tweeted demands that his followers “LIBERATE” the state. This is because Trump is a malignant grotesquery of a man.
Politico’s Ally Mutnick reported on Thursday evening that the conservative Congressional Leadership Fund has cut $450,000 from its planned ad buy in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District for Oct. 14 to Oct. 20 in what she called “a sign of no confidence in GOP nominee Dale Crafts.”
Unfortunately for Crafts, the CLF isn’t alone in making this determination about his prospects for unseating freshman Democratic Rep. Jared Golden.
Former Democratic presidential hopeful and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg has made a pretty regular and exciting appearance on Fox News Sunday lately. As a surrogate for the Biden-Harris ticket, Buttigieg is doing some important work in reaching Fox News viewers.
The CNN host called out the Trump campaign adviser for mocking Joe Biden’s stutter.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert gives his bluntest interview yet about the rising tensions between him and President Donald Trump’s administration.
“When I saw that on TV, I said ‘Oh my goodness, nothing good can come out of that,” the doctor said on “60 Minutes.
This has always been an issue, come to think of it.
Earlier this year Trump congratulated Welker on a promotion, and a senior Trump campaign adviser called her “very fair” and an “excellent” choice as moderator.
The Democratic governor of Michigan was the target of an alleged kidnapping plot involving militant Trump supporters.
For a few merciful moments during last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, viewers were offered a rare distraction from the fact that the nation is barreling toward a chaotic election. When Issa Rae, the evening’s host, stepped onto the stage for her opening monologue, I breathed a sigh of relief—in no small part because that meant the “Dueling Town Halls” cold open was over.
Tim LahanWhat will it be, the thing that finally makes me write to an advice columnist?A quandary of the heart? An out-of-control kink? A high-stakes issue involving wedding invitations? Deeply schooled as I am in the lore of the problem page, I still don’t know which of the standard cries for help I’ll end up emitting.Because they’re all standard—that’s the point. The problems are the same, now and forever. The same dilemmas, the same misunderstandings.
Texas is an enormous place—the second-largest state in the U.S., and larger than the entire country of France. About 29 million people live there, mostly in metropolitan areas in the eastern half of the state, around Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. From the streets of El Paso to the hills of East Texas, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of Texas, and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.
It sounded like thunder; it felt like heaven.This is what I remember of Sundays at the Superdome in New Orleans after the Saints scored a touchdown. An endless sea of black and gold. Fleur-de-lis paraphernalia that glistened under the stadium lights. More than 60,000 people on their feet, stomping, screaming, and singing; awash in one another’s delirium.
Anatomy of an American FailureIn September, Ed Yong reported on how the virus won.Yong’s report hits all of the crucial points with the exception of the president’s self-centered, myopic focus on his reelection, which hampered America’s response from day one.
Parenting advice on commitment, COVID, and responsibility.
His other work includes In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen, and Bring it On: The Musical.
It’s a policy reversal from a presidency that helps red states and harms blue ones.
Democrats want it. The president wants it. Americans need it. If GOP senators want to kill it, they can own it, too.
The Trump administration’s logic for ending the count early obscures that it may be rife with inaccuracies.
There’s no better time than now.
There won’t be a coronavirus vaccine ready before Election Day, despite President Donald Trump’s repeated promises and vaccine makers’ breakneck speed.
Two national pharmacy chains will administer an eventual coronavirus vaccine to high-risk groups.
The move by Pfizer continues the company’s push to publicly distance itself from the presidential race.
“I think we should be even more affirmative about it,” the former New Jersey governor said.
The political backdrop could make the first coronavirus gathering of the advisory committee one of the most-watched in FDA history.
Parenting advice on sibling sadness, gift overload, and neighborhood bullying.
