As the highest-profile coronavirus patient in the world returns to the White House while still infectious and a danger to others, we speak with activist Kristin Urquiza, whose father died from COVID-19 earlier this year. She says President Trump’s minimizing of the disease is a slap in the face to families who have lost loved ones. “I was appalled,” says Urquiza.
In perhaps the most chaotic week of a chaotic presidency, what was most surprising about tonight’s vice-presidential debate was how oddly normal it felt.Five days ago, the president of the United States was hospitalized after contracting a virus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans. There were legitimate questions about whether Donald Trump could execute the powers of his office.
Mike Pence sure showed Donald Trump how it’s done during Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate. Pence put on his smug, condescending, holier-than-thou pants and interrupted nonstop. He didn’t yell and spray spittle like Trump. He just calmly, doggedly ignored time limits, ignored moderator Susan Page’s pathetic attempts to hold him to his time, and ignored the question he’d been asked.
Vice President Mike Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris descended upon Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday for the lone debate between the two people vying to be the nation’s No. 2.
Mike Pence was asked point blank at Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate to explain Donald Trump’s plan to protect health care coverage for people with preexisting conditions. And despite Pence’s earlier claim that such a plan exists, he ran for the hills.
“You mentioned earlier, Vice President Pence, that the president was committed to maintaining protections for people with preexisting conditions,” said moderator Susan Page of USA Today.
Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate came to a close with a lot less heavy breathing and yelling than last week’s presidential showdown. But Mike Pence does retain the sociopathic-seeming ability to just lie through his teeth about virtually anything and everything, and Sen. Kamala Harris had to do a lot of history lessoning and in-debate fact-checking.
The Republican Party likes to remind people that Abraham Lincoln was a “Republican.” They like to do this because for all of their talk about “Founding Fathers” and the history of our country, the Republican Party is to history what a pile of balloons inside of a garbage fire is to history. The comparison is absurd.
“It’s a visual medium.” So often said the late Roger Ailes about television. He said it to justify hiring women who looked a certain way and requiring them to dress a certain way. Ailes’s abuse of the saying does not make it any less true. The most striking thing about the Pence-Harris debate was nothing that was said. It was what we saw.We saw a vice president with a pale face, his mouth cankered by a cold sore, his eyes pink.
A fly parked on Mike Pence’s head for more than two minutes of the vice presidential debate.
People on Twitter joked that the bug on the vice president’s head during the debate with Kamala Harris should probably get tested for COVID-19.
Buttigieg wonders “why an evangelical Christian like Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with a president caught with a porn star.
The comments from the leading Fed officials were the latest evidence of the central bank’s growing attention to persistent inequality in the economy.
The New England Journal of Medicine just issued its first editorial about an election in its 208-year history.
The president spoke of COVID-19 as a “blessing” in a video message from the White House. Coronavirus has killed over 211,000 Americans so far.
Parenting advice on police obsessions, demanding teachers, and familial political divides.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.DREW ANGERER / MICHAEL A. MCCOY / GETTYThe stakes of tonight’s vice-presidential debate are higher for Senator Kamala Harris than for Vice President Mike Pence, my colleague David A. Graham argues.
The president’s approval rating on the economy remained his bright spot. But he darkened that outlook by shutting the door on a comprehensive economic aid package just as millions of Americans start voting.
Watching Kamala Harris take the stage tonight for her debate with Mike Pence, many Democrats may be wondering the same thing: Why would she agree to appear in person, just a few feet away from the vice president, amid a coronavirus outbreak that has ravaged the White House and infected President Donald Trump?
I don’t want to push her to do something she doesn’t enjoy.
Outdoor experts on how to stave off cabin fever.
The first picture ever captured of a black hole, one situated in the center of another galaxy, was pretty blurry. Seen in silhouette, it appeared fuzzy, as did the ring of hot gas surrounding it. The reaction of the public did not necessarily match the unalloyed joy of astronomers accustomed to extracting cosmic wonders from lines in a graph. To anyone more familiar with black holes from epic space films, this one mostly looked like a flame-glazed donut.
A menstruation-themed red is the latest cross-branded stunt color to dilute a once-vibrant brand.
Nearly 41 years after Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis shot dead five antiracist activists in the town of Greensboro, North Carolina, the City Council there has passed a resolution apologizing for the attack and the police department’s complicity in the killings. We speak with two survivors of the 1979 attack, Reverend Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson, who say the city’s apology acknowledges “the police knew and chose to do nothing.
As President Trump compares the deadly COVID-19 outbreak to the flu despite being hospitalized for the virus, we speak to his only niece, Mary Trump, about his increasingly erratic behavior in the final weeks of the election season and how his family views illness as a weakness. “To be treated for something is to admit that you need the treatment, and I don’t see him having any self-awareness,” she says.
I’ve contemplated leaving them, but I still love my wife so much.
The only way parents and their child-free co-workers can survive this pandemic is for bosses to acknowledge reality, lower their goals, and do their part.
“They saved the world, but it wasn’t enough.
As if there wasn’t enough troubling news on this Friday.
Brooks Brothers popularized the button-down shirt. It clothed nearly every U.S. president.
