Days After Bomb Attacks, NRA Doubles Down on Demonization of Soros, Steyer, Bloomberg
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre speaks at the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum in Dallas on May 4, 2018.Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than a week after a MAGA fanatic mailed pipe bombs to critics of President Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association intensified its…
Corporations Are Pulling Their Support From Steve King. These Outfits Are Doubling Down.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Iowa Republican Steve King has been making liberal jaws drop for years with his inflammatory rhetoric on immigration and race, but that has never stopped corporate PACs from supporting him. However, following revelations of a recent meeting between King and a…
While Dedicating a Monument to Black Civil War Soldiers, Ryan Zinke Praises Robert E. Lee
“To attempt to link Lee’s achievements for the Confederacy which embraced White Supremacy to that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is not a slight oversight but a huge historical misappropriation that the descendants of enslaved Africans cannot accept or tolerate,” Malik Russell, an NAACP spokesman, said in an email. “Dr. King’s work united our…
The Only Black Republican Woman Ever Elected to Congress Is at Risk of Losing in a Deep-Red District
Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, participates in a news conference on immigration reform at the Capitol on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mia Love used to be a Republican rock star. She was young, Haitian-American, Mormon, and very conservative. In 2012, when she was running…
After Pittsburgh Massacre, Trump Sticks to His Divisive Closing Pitch Ahead of Midterms
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One day after visiting Pittsburgh, where thousands gathered to mourn the lives of the 11 people killed while worshipping at the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday, President Donald Trump appeared primarily concerned with reports of his reception while downplaying the demonstrators who had…
Social Media Is Making the World a Better Place. Quit Griping About It.
Eugène Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People” Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Frank Bruni expresses today what I think is a common opinion: Nora Ephron once wrote a brilliant essay about the trajectory of her and many other people’s infatuations with email, from the thrill of discovering this speedy new way…