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Amid a wave of criticism on Monday, House Republicans are reversing course on a plan to kill the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent body created to investigate unethical wrongdoing by lawmakers. House Republican met in secret on Sunday evening and voted to rein in the OCE by subjecting it to oversight from the…
Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Bill and Hillary Clinton have decided to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, according to two sources with knowledge of their plans. The Clintons will join former Presidents George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, who have also announced that they will attend. George…
What if, a recent piece of speculative fiction in Vanity Fair wonders aloud, Megyn Kelly isn’t a poisonous bigot and shameless cable news demagogue, but a complex, flawed icon of modern feminism? Like most science fiction, this is a pack of lies meant for babies. Megyn Kelly is just as racist—or cynically willing to play…
Image by Jim Cooke Last week, I asked people who voted for Donald Trump to write in and explain why they made that choice. They did! We got dozens of emails from Trump supporters telling us why they voted the way they did, and I have grouped selections of them into general categories…
After Americans elected Donald Trump — whose racist campaign rhetoric targeting Muslims, Mexicans, and black Americans emboldened racial violence and white outrage — researchers report that white people need to join the fight for racial justice for it to be the most effective, according to Quartz. Specifically, political scientist Cullen Hendrix, a professor at the University of Denver argues that…
President-elect Donald Trump declared Saturday that he knows “things that other people don’t know” about Russian hacking allegations, suggesting FBI and CIA reports leave room for doubt over Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election. “I just want them to be sure, because it’s a pretty serious charge, and I want them to be sure,” Trump told…
Laredo International Airport in Texas, July 23, 2015. Credit Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times The last year has not been the news media’s finest. Despite some outstanding coverage, over all we misled many people into thinking that Donald Trump would never win the Republican nomination, let alone the White House. Too often we…
People march in protest against president-elect Donald Trump in Seattle, Washington on November 14, 2016.Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images The sense of disillusionment white American liberals woke up with on Nov. 9 was powerful enough to taint the entire year with a sense of doom. So many illusions were shattered by the election of Donald Trump:…
ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT Obama’s sanctions against Russia for interfering with the U.S. presidential election came late, his action on Thursday reflected a bipartisan consensus that penalties must be imposed for Moscow’s audacious hacking and meddling. But one prominent voice in the United States reacted differently. President-elect Donald Trump said “it’s time for our country to move…
A member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir says she has resigned from the famed group over its decision to perform at next month’s inauguration of Donald Trump, a performance she said would be an endorsement of “tyranny and fascism”. She added: “I only know I could never ‘throw roses to Hitler.’ And I certainly could…