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Today has been weirdly unsettled as coronavirus news broke, the stock market tottered, and Trump attacked the Supreme Court and California Democrat Ada…
Heather Cox Richardson
20 hr
The major news today, both at home and abroad, is the spread, containment, and management of coronavirus. I am going to write about its political impli…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 25
Ukraine journalist Marko Suprun and Russian-born foreign policy journalist Julia Ioffe said something interesting this morning on CNN. They were pointi…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 24
A lot of folks have been asking me lately if America has ever been in such a crisis before and, if so, what people in the past did to save democracy. T…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 23
More news today about the intelligence briefing that led to Trump firing acting Director of Intelligence Joseph Maguire. First of all, observers see th…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 22
Today’s expected big story—that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Roger Stone and Trump took to Twitter to attack the process and its ou…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 21
The big news today in Washington was that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, the venue that dumped emails from Democratic officials hacked by Ru…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 20
Today, Trump pardoned 7 people and commuted the sentences of four others, and I am fascinated that the high-profile individuals all appear at first gla…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 19
Attorney General William Barr, or rather, opposition to his continued leadership of the Department of Justice, has dominated the news today. Barr’s app…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 18
One of the stories I did not cover yesterday was that on Friday, the White House sent to Congress a memo explaining the rationale behind the killing of…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 17
There is more news today about Attorney General William Barr, and about the Soleimani killing, and about Trump’s grab for more power, but after the pas…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 16
Increasingly, it feels like a race to see who’s going to make it into the legal system first: the people trying to destroy the rule of law, or the peop…
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 15
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