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'Don't be proud': Trump urges states to call up National Guard for weekend protests
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is calling for an increase in National Guard forces across the country ahead of large... Read More
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Trump claims victory although crises continue
WASHINGTON -- Buoyed by a better than expected jobs report, President Donald Trump claimed victory Friday over the nation's three most serious crises -- the coronavirus outbreak, protests over police brutality and endemic ...Read more
Editorial: Mattis told the truth about Trump. Why won't more Republicans?
It's impossible to exaggerate the significance of former Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis' decision to speak out against President Donald Trump's attempt to use the U.S. military to advance a political agenda at a time...Read more
We caught up with Hillary Clinton. Here's her message for the nation right now
Since "Hillary," Hulu's four-part documentary about Hillary Clinton, premiered in early March, America has been devastated by a pandemic and convulsed by nationwide protests following the police killing of George Floyd.
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Commentary: In wake of George Floyd death, TV turns to conversations about race
NBC's Lester Holt and "Sesame Street's" Big Bird. CNN's Van Jones and PBS' Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Television is helping in a major way to drive a national conversation about race in the wake of ...Read more
Me and the holy book(s)
As punchline Pres. Donald J. Trump continues his honkin' big tour of many Jesuses, waving the Bible at an Episcopal church, visiting a shrine run by idol-worshiping Catholics, and no doubt on his way to wave a Quran at a ...Read more
General Mattis has just defected to the resistance
In his statement to The Atlantic magazine, former Defense Secretary General James Mattis says of the events of the last 10 days that have shaken the nation as it has not been shaken since 1968:
"We must not be distracted ...Read more
Violent rioting, as in the 1960s, hurts the most disadvantaged
"America is burning. But that's how forests grow." So spoke Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.
"Riots are an integral part of the country's march towards progress." So read a now-deleted tweet from the ...Read more
Analysis: Racism, unrest, police brutality. Is America living 1968 all over again? Yes, and no
In the broad sweep of American history, certain years stand like grim mileposts. The year 1968, bathed in blood and drenched in sorrow, is one. The year 2020 may be another.
The nation is convulsed today in a way it has ...Read more
A timely warning from the generals
Under ordinary circumstances, open dissent from high-ranking military officials, retired and active, against the actions of civilian political leaders would signal a danger familiar to other countries. Such rumblings from ...Read more
Martin Schram: It's time to paint our next 'American Gothic'
"American Gothic," the iconic portrait that became the face of America in a time of crisis, is touring the world, once again.
But this "American Gothic" is Donald Trump's new one, not Grant Wood's Depression-era ...Read more
Commentary: Confederate monuments institutionalize racism. Take them all down. Now
A racist civic sculpture celebrating white supremacy was taken down off its pedestal on Tuesday in Alexandria, Va. The action, dramatic and long overdue, represents a sliver of light piercing the current gloom.
The bronze...Read more
Trudy Rubin: From Tiananmen Square to Lafayette Square, Trump's love of military undermines democracy
On June 4, 1989, exactly 41 years ago, China's military shot, killed and arrested thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters came out with candles on ...Read more
Editorial: Respond strongly to China on Hong Kong
"Hide our strength, bide our time," said Deng Xiaoping, China's former leader. Xi Jinping, China's current president, seems to believe the opposite.
Shaking off his failures that let an outbreak in Wuhan become a global ...Read more
Editorial: Small towns are hurting: The $3 trillion in coronavirus aid isn't heading to hometown America
The coronavirus is wreaking havoc in small towns and cities across America. Once again, the federal government ignored citizens living outside the big cities. The $3 trillion in coronavirus aid isn't heading to hometown ...Read more
Editorial: A very abbreviated history of police officers killing black people
George Floyd, Jamar Clark, Philando Castile. Reading the names of African Americans killed by police in or near Minneapolis alone can boggle the mind, and of course these are only the names that made the national news. ...Read more
Commentary: Trump's rejection of WHO and other global pacts leaves America on its own
President Donald Trump's announcement last week that he would terminate U.S. membership in the World Health Organization is but the latest in a long list of decisions he has made to walk away from international ...Read more
Will Bunch: No end in sight, can George Floyd protests become a peaceful American revolution?
Even if you tear it down, they will come. Just 13 hours earlier, a giant crane -- deus ex machina, indeed -- had airlifted the 2,000-pound likeness of Philadelphia's nightstick-wielding ex-mayor and top cop Frank Rizzo ...Read more
Editorial: When the powerful say nothing in the face of injustice, they are giving their consent
This week, The Atlantic published a stunning critique of President Donald Trump by retired Gen. Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis warning against a militarized response to the nationwide civil rights protests of recent days and calling...Read more
George Skelton: After George Floyd's death, we need action: Fire bad cops now
California schools chief Tony Thurmond reacted instinctively when his car was pulled over by a highway patrolman. Thurmond is black. The officer was white.
"I put my hands on the dashboard," Thurmond told me. "My heart ...Read more
Mary McNamara: Nostalgia fuels racism and injustice. Don't fall under its spell again
It's only June but I think it's safe to say that 2020 will go down in history as one terrible, horrible, unrelievedly crazy year. A pandemic, more than 100,000 Americans dead in three months, hospitals overrun, businesses ...Read more
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