President Donald Trump’s grand plan to demolish Joe Biden at tonight’s first presidential debate was shockingly simple: He merely wouldn’t let the former vice president complete a sentence.Trump talked over his Democratic challenger—and the frustrated moderator, Chris Wallace—from the opening moments of the debate, bullying Biden with a barrage of personal attacks (“There’s nothing smart about you, Joe”) and outright lies.
The president insisted, without evidence, that violence is a left-wing problem.
The 90-minute spectacle tonight calls into question the value of having any “debates” of this sort ever again. No one knows more about public life than he or she did before this disaster began; some people know less; and everyone feels and looks worse.Start with the supposed moderator, Chris Wallace. It became obvious five minutes in that Donald Trump’s strategy was to interrupt, yell, insult, and disrupt as often as he could.
Donald Trump talking about the climate crisis given his destruction of regulations, proposals, and programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus reduce the impacts of global warming, is like listening to Kim Jong-Un talking about democracy.
In debate, Trump says California wildfires are a product of the failure of the state to clean out the underbrush. And claims this doesn’t happen in Europe.
The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate reacts to the debate “line of the night.
“This is so unpresidential,” the Democratic nominee said after the president repeatedly tried to speak over him and Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
The former vice president went full “dad joke” just before the first presidential debate with Donald Trump.
This evening we’ll see Donald Trump and Joe Biden on the same stage, in the first of what are scheduled to be three debates.I will confess that I did not think this event would occur—and I am still not sure about the subsequent ones.
The wealthy no longer fear the taxman. Democrats finally have an opening to fix that.
There’s more than one way to ask why. Look to Russian for an explanation.
Ahead of the first of three presidential debates between President Trump and Joe Biden, we speak with David Cay Johnston, founder and editor-in-chief of DCReport.org, who says the bombshell New York Times report on Trump’s taxes highlights the existence of “two income tax systems, separate and unequal.” The Times reports that Trump paid no federal income tax in 10 of the past 15 years and just $750 in 2016 and 2017.
In a historic victory for unhoused people, Philadelphia city officials agreed to hand over 50 vacant homes to a community land trust, following months of organizing and protest encampments. We hear from one of the organizers and speak to Philadelphia-based Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who has written extensively about housing insecurity and says the direct actions there are applicable across the U.S.
Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor says the Breonna Taylor case is contributing to an “unfolding dynamic of radicalization” in the United States as people see repeated cases of police misconduct go unpunished. A grand jury recently declined to charge any of the officers involved in the 26-year-old EMT’s killing for her death.
As President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden face off in the first presidential debate in Cleveland, we speak to author and academic Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who says the multiple crises facing the United States are not getting enough attention leading up to the November election.
What a prolific hit man can teach us about our obsession with true crime.
Parenting advice on only children, friendship breakups, and parenting differences.
“Four houses fully booked for months—every single one of them canceled. … I banked everything on this.
For book reviews, for research, and even for fun.
Everyone sees what this is: The president using public money to sway voters before an election.
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
Operation Warp Speed is the administration’s best attempt at fighting coronavirus, experts say, but White House meddling has caused public confidence to plummet.
Parenting advice on temper tantrums, in-laws, and positive parenting.
Contrary to popular belief, you can be assertive without being aggressive.
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
If presidential elections really turn on how the country is doing, there’s a good reason for the incumbent to sweat.
