It didn’t receive a rebuke from the House, but President Donald Trump did something else this week, apart from his racist tweets against a quartet of Democratic congresswomen, that many saw as ugly and contrary to American values. Addressing the furor at a press conference on Monday, Trump hurled another line of attack against the […]
NextGen America, a well-funded Democratic organizing group that spent tens of millions of dollars to turn out young voters in 2018, has settled on its next target: Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. But there’s one problem for the youth-focused nonprofit: The median Mainer is nearly 45 years old, the highest average of any of […]
There won’t be a citizenship question on the 2020 census, but activists and officials say President Donald Trump’s administration may have done lasting damage to the survey nonetheless in deterring immigrants and people of color from participating. Trump decided last week to allow the census to proceed without a question about whether respondents are U.S. […]
A Republican Alabama official seeking to unseat Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) in the 2020 election complained that “homosexual activities” have supplanted “good TV shows” of the 1950s and 1960s. “There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Bonanza,’ ‘The Virginian,’ ‘Andy Griffith,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ We don’t have those shows anymore. We’re too interested […]
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway spoke out Tuesday against her husband’s scathing Washington Post op-ed in which he said he has “no doubt” President Donald Trump is a racist. “No, I totally disagree,” Conway told Fox News of husband George Conway’s column. “But I work with this president. I know him. I know his heart, […]
Lawmakers spent most of Tuesday hashing out whether to condemn President Donald Trump’s racist comment that four congresswomen of color should “go back” to their ancestral countries, but a federal agency has already made the decision for them. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has written specific rules that protect people, mostly immigrants, against employment […]
Another Republican man running for governor of Mississippi has said that he refuses to be alone in a room with a woman who is not his wife. Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Bill Waller Jr. told Mississippi Today reporter Larrison Campbell on Monday that he abides by the “Billy Graham rule” because it’s “common sense.” “I […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took his anti-immigrant policies to new levels Monday with a sweeping ban on asylum-seekers while ramping up 1950s-style racist attacks on four members of Congress. Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, defended his series of tweets Sunday and Monday, claiming that they were not racist at all, and […]
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) on Monday sought to defend President Donald Trump after he urged four women of color in Congress ― all of whom are U.S. citizens ― to “go back” to where they came from on Twitter over the weekend. The tweet, the Republican congressman insisted, was “obviously not racist.” “Look, ask the […]
Marc Short, chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence, claimed that Elaine Chao’s role as secretary of transportation in the Trump administration is “evidence” that the president isn’t racist, prompting many Asian Americans to speak out to set the record straight. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump tweeted that four Democratic congresswomen should “go […]