The electoral map is tilting badly against Donald Trump right now
Amid the protests following the police killing of George Floyd and the ongoing fight against the coronavirus pandemic, something very important has been overlooked: President Donald Trump is now a decided underdog to reach the 270 electoral votes he needs to win a second term in the fall.
While Trump shelters in the White House, America cries out for leadership
Under siege in the White House, President Donald Trump is aggravating America's latest racial anguish in a nation now simultaneously beset by violence-wracked cities, a deadly disease and staggering economic deprivation.
Coronavirus is our chance to completely rethink what the economy is for
The pandemic has revealed the danger of prizing ‘efficiency’ above all else. The recent slowdown in our lives points to another way of doing things
A week of distractions from Trump shows a leader in crisis
On Monday, as the nation marked Memorial Day, President Donald Trump mocked his campaign rival for wearing a face mask. On Wednesday, as the national death toll from coronavirus reached a wretched milestone, Trump and his family flew to Florida in an attempted focus on space travel.
Rich and powerful in London keeping their head above water
Over cups of tea in his ramshackle London home I chatted with a novelist. It felt a valuable opportunity, given his multiple fictional treatments of London, to discuss the city's rapid changes that I was also writing about.
Trump’s Twitter wars offer a surreal glimpse into a President’s mind as stark 100,000...
Sometime in the next few days, the 100,000th American will succumb to Covid-19 in a pandemic that President Donald Trump once predicted would just "miraculously" disappear.
The danger in Trump’s decision to self-medicate
The fragile foundation of evidence-based reality shoring up Donald Trump's life and presidency just got even more tenuous.
Trump’s rebuke of Fauci encapsulates rejection of science in virus fight
President Donald Trump's repudiation of Dr. Anthony Fauci has long been probable. Once the trusted doctor warned of the human cost of Trump's push to quickly reopen the country, it became inevitable.
Trump and Kushner show depth of disconnect with Americans on the front lines
It's fine for Jared Kushner to mock the "eternal lockdown crowd" worried about state reopenings -- he doesn't have to clock in at a meat factory, drive a bus or work in an emergency room.
Has Trump’s coronavirus response sunk him? Don’t bet on it
Some pundits argue that his Lysol comments are the last straw for supporters. But he could still successfully change the conversation










