Matt Gaetz appears to run afoul of House ethics rules
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has privately engaged in several spending practices in his nearly four years in office that appear to be in conflict with the House’s ethics rules, a POLITICO investigation has found. Gaetz, a close ally of President Donald Trump from the Florida Panhandle, improperly sent tens...
Why the Black Lives Matter movement doesn’t want a singular leader
In 2015, thousands of Black activists gathered in Ohio for the first national Black Lives Matter convention to consider where the movement would direct its energy. Attendees in the crowd held up red construction paper to signal “no” to a handful of narrow options, like focusing only on policy...
Trump’s Endorsement Record Is Not As Impressive as He Makes It Out To Be
Among President Donald Trump’s many claims to power and influence—he’s called himself the “most successful,” “most popular Republican in party history”—is that he’s the endorser in chief. After the Trump-backed political neophyte Tommy Tuberville knocked Jeff Sessions out of the Senate race in Alabama last week and the president’s...
Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ — and don’t like what they see
One of the few things that Barack Obama and Donald Trump agree on is cancel culture. In the last year, as numerous public figures have become the targets of online campaigns by social media swarms, the former and current president have spoken out against the practice. “That’s not activism,”...
Trump’s return to fronting virus briefings is too little, too late
President Donald Trump’s return to coronavirus briefings delivered exactly the strong public health message America needed to hear — four months ago. Link...
Russia’s corona euphoria
Vijai Maheshwari is a writer and entrepreneur based in Moscow. He tweets at @Vijaimaheshwari. MOSCOW — It wasn’t that long ago, in early June, that Russia’s capital Moscow was eerily quiet as the Kremlin enforced one of the world’s harshest lockdowns to flatten the rising curve of coronavirus infections. With the...
Republicans and White House divided on stimulus proposal: ‘I’m not a no, I’m a hell no’
Senate Republicans and the White House remain at odds over several central components of their next stimulus proposal after a full day of negotiations on Capitol Hill. Link...
Fact check: At his first coronavirus briefing since April, Trump repeats a handful of classic false claims
In his first coronavirus briefing since April, President Donald Trump got a little more accurate about the state of the pandemic in the US — but also continued to make some of the same false claims and promote some of the same misleading narratives of his previous moments in...
Utah’s ‘Mighty Five’ national parks suffer mightily from low visitation
Maui Taua and his wife, Shynell, sit with their children, Renee and Rose, in the Saw Mill picnic site near Timpanogos Cave in American Fork Canyon on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Visits to all national parks in Utah this summer are drastically down with the exception of Timpanogos Cave....
Utah lawmaker shares how COVID-19 caught her young family ‘off guard’
Rep. Candice Pierucci, R-Herriman, left, her husband, Andy, and son Benji, contracted COVID-19 after having a small family dinner with a relative. Pierucci agreed to share her family’s experience, hoping Utahns will learn from how the virus caught her family “off guard.” | Pierucci family Rep. Candice Pierucci, R-Riverton,...