Politics

Instead of quelling some of the outrage expressed by demonstrators near the White House who were protesting the killing of George Floyd, President Trump instead went on a derisive and threatening rant that might only stoke further violence. On Saturday morning, Trump took to Twitter and praised the Secret Service …

Since when should dying be the price of freedom? What kind of liberty could be won? And when we hear authority figures saying that we should accept that risk, should we feel liberated? Or just the opposite? Perhaps if one might answer that question in a certain way if they …

In 1993, Tara Reade was a 28-year-old junior staffer in the office of U.S. Senator Joe Biden. Reade alleges that Biden pushed her up against a wall, put his hand under her skirt, and penetrated her with his fingers. The assault, she said, occurred in a hallway somewhere in the …

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has made news of late for calling Nevada’s coronavirus shutdown “total insanity,” but following a Tuesday cable-news interview, it’s Goodman’s sanity that should be questioned. The Independent mayor made wild health assertions while making her case for a reopening of Vegas during an interview with …

Donald Trump had such high hopes for Easter. So high, in fact, that when he burst forth on Fox News a couple of weeks ago with his idea of “re-opening” the country wide this coming Sunday, he gave it an exemplary rating of three “beautifuls”: “I just thought that it …

Despite Gov. Tony Evers’ attempts to stop it in the name of public safety, the Wisconsin state primary will be held on Tuesday, the state supreme court ruled. On Monday, citing the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country, Evers, a Democrat, issued an executive order to delay the state primary scheduled …

Joe Biden has committed to making a woman his running mate should he win the Democratic nomination. The former vice president made the announcement Sunday night during the latest Democratic debate in Washington, D.C. “If I’m elected president, my cabinet, my administration will look like the country and I committed …

Though President Trump insisted on Tuesday that COVID-19 will “go away,” the government’s top expert on infectious diseases warned lawmakers on Wednesday that not only is the virus not going away anytime soon, the worst is yet to come. “I can say that we will see more cases and things …

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The C.E. Gaines Center at Winston-Salem State University was filled to capacity. The typical set list of U2 and Bruce Springsteen and Fleetwood Mac had been replaced by Young Jeezy. The young people in the audience, most of them young people of color, danced in the bleachers …