Sen. Tom Cotton Calls Slavery Nation’s ‘Necessary Evil’ In Shocking Interview
Slavery “was the necessary evil upon which the union was built,” the Arkansas senator said in an interview.
Slavery “was the necessary evil upon which the union was built,” the Arkansas senator said in an interview.
Last cycle, Democrats took a 3-2 majority on the New Hampshire Executive Council, a powerful body unique to the Granite State, and they’re fighting to keep control this fall. Daily Kos Elections is out with new data, which was crunched for us by elections analyst Bill Coningsby, of the 2016 presidential and 2018 gubernatorial results for all five districts. You can find our overview here, as well as the results broken down by county for 2016 and 2018.
There’s been little good news of late, so here’s something to enjoy: the travails of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who’s been scrambling to gather money for the National Republican Congressional Committee to help save House Republicans from what’s looking to be another thrashing in the November elections.
Change of heart follows a weekend of golf and after two Yankees players knelt during the national anthem at a stadium in Washington.
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
The United States’ coronavirus death toll exceeded 1,000 for five days straight last week, but who could possibly expect President Donald Trump to sacrifice a day of golfing because of a deadly pandemic? No one who’s been paying attention to the commander-in-chief’s priorities, which seem to align with bashing liberal state leaders, tweeting about his competitor in the 2020 election, and the heavy-hitter, getting re-elected.
Amid conversations to reopen schools nationwide, healthcare experts are desperately urging individuals to wear masks as the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S. Failing to realize the severity of the situation some individuals, including parents, are eager to send their children to schools without protective gear amid increasing cases of COVID-19.
Admiral Brett Giroir, who’s leading Trump’s testing protocols, tried to paint a rosy picture of nationwide testing efforts, which are severely lacking in hard-hit cities.
Olivia de Havilland was the last great living female star of the movies’ golden age, in the 1930s and ’40s. She died today at 104 at her home in Paris, and her radiant visage and sinuous voice will haunt audiences for at least another century, whether as Errol Flynn’s blushing Maid Marian in The Adventures of Robin Hood, or as her old friend Bette Davis’s scheming foil in the Grand Guignol of Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
Racist theology is deeply embedded in the DNA of white Christian churches, influencing even their theology on salvation, PRRI founder Robert Jones argues in a new book.
South Dakota is the fifth-smallest state by population in the U.S., with approximately 885,000 residents living in its 77,000 square miles. From the Black Hills and the Badlands, across the plains to Sioux Falls, here are a few glimpses of the landscape of South Dakota and some of the wildlife and people calling it home.This photo story is part of Fifty, a collection of images from each of the United States.
The Republican congressman reportedly called Ocasio-Cortez a “f**king bitch.
Kanye West, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama were all feeling generous on the evening of July 16, according to their Twitter accounts, which offered to double any payments sent to them in bitcoin. Not really, of course; they’d been hacked. Or, rather, Twitter itself had been hacked, and for apparently stupid reasons: The perpetrators stole and resold Twitter accounts and impersonated high-follower users to try to scam people out of cryptocurrency.
Reading Maxine Kumin in quarantine solitude, I’ve found something familiar in the way that little details come alive when larger, flashier things have fallen away. Kumin is known for quiet, observational poems, and “Winter’s Tale,” published in The Atlantic in 2009, is quiet both in style and subject matter. “Even from my study at the back of the house I can hear an orange drop upstairs,” she writes.
“Have you ever met anyone who’s read the party platform? I haven’t,” the former Republican House Speaker John Boehner said during a 2012 interview about his party’s manifesto. Last week, the Democratic National Committee released a draft of its new platform. But in this case, when it comes to China, the document merits a close read.
Communities say CDC gives advice — but no resources to follow through.
Early in his career, he tried hard to distinguish his work from superhero comics.
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
Too few materials, too many coronavirus outbreaks, and a never-ending canister shortage.
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
This news comes after the U.S. announced earlier in the day that it had secured up to 600 million doses of a vaccine created by BioNTech and Pfizer.
The announcements come a day after President Donald Trump threw his support behind facial coverings to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert said he had last spoken with the president late last week.
Summer blockbusters have started to look the same in recent years: iterations from the same franchises, with comic-book superheroes leading the pack again and again. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 summer-movie season never really began. With Hollywood’s biggest films delayed for months, or indefinitely, I’ve assembled a list of unconventional and underrated movies with a much more eclectic range of heroes to cheer for or be thrilled by.
The project began, in one telling, five years ago, in a castle that overlooks the Bavarian Alps, where three dozen of the world’s most successful and rivalrous earth scientists came together for a week of cloistered meetings.They gathered, in part, out of embarrassment. For the past four decades, their field—the study of Earth’s natural phenomena, including its land, ocean, and climate—had boomed.
“It hands the appearance of victory to the wrong people,” a former board member said.
Anyone rushing the reopening of schools needs to consider the emotional cost to kids of infecting family and friends.