Donald Trump spewed election lies and then hung up on NPR’s Steve Inskeep after the host pushed him on his falsehoods. Inskeep tweeted on Tuesday that he’d been trying to schedule an interview with Trump for six years. The former president finally agreed, but the interview that was scheduled to …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Andre Damon, writer and editor for World Socialist Web Site. First on this week’s docket is a discussion of the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol. “For the first time in the …
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Correction: On March 11, 2021, the Washington Post issued a correction to a story that Rolling Stone quoted in this article. The Post’s original story, based on an anonymous source, misquoted the president during a December call with Georgia‘s top election investigator. The Post originally reported President Trump as instructing …
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John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and one of the more intriguing figures in the Democratic Party, sounds exasperated. He’s exasperated that Democrats saw a blue wave in 2020 and underestimated the enduring appeal of Donald Trump. (“I call him the Bulworth president. [He] has created a brand loyalty …
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WASHINGTON — Louis DeJoy, the logistics expert and Republican mega-donor who now serves as the Postmaster General, made his debut appearance before Congress on Friday. Senate Democrats grilled DeJoy on the recent delays in mail delivery and DeJoy’s plans to overhaul the Postal Service’s operations. While most Senate Republicans came …
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It was two days before Donald Trump’s arrival, and in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa some ground rules were being laid down. America, incredibly, was just waking up to the fact that a century ago Greenwood included Black Wall Street, the most prosperous black neighborhood in the entire country. Then, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The commercial wasn’t meant to serve as an epitaph. Kamala Harris’ November 20 ad remains arguably the boldest argument both from any of the Democratic candidates to be president and for Donald Trump to be a one-termer. She captured the essential, tangible dilemma at hand, skipping talk of battling for …
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