Joe Biden Listens to Anguish at a Black Church in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, Del. — As the nation entered another day of unrest in response to the killing of George Floyd, who was pinned under a police...
Tag : Presidential Election of 2020
Can Biden Emerge From the Basement and Meet the Moment?
Under normal circumstances, Joseph R. Biden Jr. might have delivered a speech on race in America on Sunday, covered by a press corps following him...
William Barr’s State of Emergency
On the first Monday in May, the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington was on coronavirus lockdown — or at least it appeared to be...
What Trump and Toxic Cops Have in Common
In his first Inaugural Address, and hopefully his last, Donald Trump talked about American carnage. He got it this week. What we couldn’t have known...
As Protests and Violence Spill Over, Trump Shrinks Back
WASHINGTON — Inside the White House, the mood was bristling with tension. Hundreds of protesters were gathering outside the gates, shouting curses at President Trump...
Tara Reade’s Tumultuous Journey to the 2020 Campaign
Last spring, after years of strife with friends and neighbors and a constant struggle for money, Tara Reade was making a fresh start in a...
In Seeking to Hold Michigan, Trump Can Be His Own Worst Enemy
WASHINGTON — A day before his visit in May to Michigan, where unemployment has climbed to 23 percent and flooding had grown severe enough to...
Black Americans Have a Message for Democrats: Not Being Trump Is Not Enough
COLUMBIA, S.C. — In an on-camera address after a week of destructive protests, former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. pleaded with his audience to...
The Case Against Riots
In the origin myth of post-1960s liberalism, all the defeats that the Democratic Party suffered in the years of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were...
Kris Kobach Is Back, and a Kansas Senate Seat May Be Up for Grabs
LEAWOOD, Kan. — It has been 88 years since Kansas last sent a Democrat to the United States Senate — one of only three Democrats...