Chris Seward/AP Photo Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, one of the U.S. Army bases named for Confederate figures Well, almost.One of the latest chapters (they all come so quickly) in the ever-expanding volume Can You Believe What Our Asshole President Just Said? concerns Trump’s support for keeping the names of Confederate military leaders on U.S. Army bases, even though Defense Secretary Mark Esper and a host of retired military leaders favor dumping those names ASAP.After citing Forts Bragg and Hood in his tweets, Trump continued:These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a...…Chris Seward/AP Photo Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, one of the U.S. Army bases named for Confederate figures Well, almost.One of the latest chapters (they all come so quickly) in the ever-expanding volume Can You Believe What Our Asshole President Just Said? concerns Trump’s support for keeping the names of Confederate military leaders on U.S. Army bases, even though Defense Secretary Mark Esper and a host of retired military leaders favor dumping those names ASAP.After citing Forts Bragg and Hood in his tweets, Trump continued:These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a...WW…

Branden Camp/AP Photo Voters line up to cast their ballots on Election Day, November 3, 2020, in Emerson, Georgia. For most of 2020’s primary elections and general election, voters had to closely track changes in polling places and voting options, as state and local election officials responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. This ended up having a positive impact. Many Americans used vote-by-mail and early in-person alternatives for the first time, to stay safe and cast their ballots in what was . The more convenient voting options also led to historic turnout, the .But some Republican...…Branden Camp/AP Photo Voters line up to cast their ballots on Election Day, November 3, 2020, in Emerson, Georgia. For most of 2020’s primary elections and general election, voters had to closely track changes in polling places and voting options, as state and local election officials responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. This ended up having a positive impact. Many Americans used vote-by-mail and early in-person alternatives for the first time, to stay safe and cast their ballots in what was . The more convenient voting options also led to historic turnout, the .But some Republican...WW…

Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo Donna Shalala during her 2018 congressional campaign The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at .Democrats were expected to expand their House majority, but instead saw many seats slip through their hands. With several races uncalled, the majority could be cut by as much as seven to ten seats.That includes the seat of Nancy Pelosi’s close ally Rep. Donna Shalala (D-FL), whom Pelosi chose for the CARES Act’s Congressional Oversight Commission (which monitors the Federal Reserve bailout)....…Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo Donna Shalala during her 2018 congressional campaign The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at .Democrats were expected to expand their House majority, but instead saw many seats slip through their hands. With several races uncalled, the majority could be cut by as much as seven to ten seats.That includes the seat of Nancy Pelosi’s close ally Rep. Donna Shalala (D-FL), whom Pelosi chose for the CARES Act’s Congressional Oversight Commission (which monitors the Federal Reserve bailout)....WW…

John Raoux/AP Photo A group of demonstrators gather at Lake Eola Park to protest the Florida unemployment benefits system, June 10, 2020, in Orlando, Florida. is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. The American Prospect is co-publishing this article.The way tells it, she Forrest Gumped her way into one of the most important political contests in Florida. The blonde-haired, flip-flopped, divorced mother of eight spent all her life in the Tampa area, attended a Christian college, and voted for Trump in 2016. But after losing...…John Raoux/AP Photo A group of demonstrators gather at Lake Eola Park to protest the Florida unemployment benefits system, June 10, 2020, in Orlando, Florida. is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. The American Prospect is co-publishing this article.The way tells it, she Forrest Gumped her way into one of the most important political contests in Florida. The blonde-haired, flip-flopped, divorced mother of eight spent all her life in the Tampa area, attended a Christian college, and voted for Trump in 2016. But after losing...WW…

W.W. Norton It’s hard to be funny and even harder to parody Donald Trump, who is so prone to self-parody that many Trump jokes fall flat. But in a whopping five columns a week for The Washington Post, Alexandra Petri finds new ways to capture the daily barrage of corrupt and outrageous behavior emerging from the White House. A recent favorite: “.”In a pandemic, humor can reveal the absurdity of policy choices and bad governance in a way that serious writing cannot. Petri takes the words of the administration, of Congress, and of presidential candidates to their logical conclusions, and the...…W.W. Norton It’s hard to be funny and even harder to parody Donald Trump, who is so prone to self-parody that many Trump jokes fall flat. But in a whopping five columns a week for The Washington Post, Alexandra Petri finds new ways to capture the daily barrage of corrupt and outrageous behavior emerging from the White House. A recent favorite: “.”In a pandemic, humor can reveal the absurdity of policy choices and bad governance in a way that serious writing cannot. Petri takes the words of the administration, of Congress, and of presidential candidates to their logical conclusions, and the...WW…

Paul Sancya/AP Photo A protester carries his rifle at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, April 30, 2020. In Jackson, Mississippi, one spring evening 50 years ago today, fed-up students threw rocks at drivers and set fire to a dump truck. Drivers often on Lynch Street through their Jackson State College campus throwing bottles and rocks, and yelling, “nigger.”The Jackson police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol on Lynch Street. Bottles and rocks flew after firefighters put the blaze out, and shortly after the midnight hour on May 15, 1970, the officers began firing hundreds of bullets...…Paul Sancya/AP Photo A protester carries his rifle at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, April 30, 2020. In Jackson, Mississippi, one spring evening 50 years ago today, fed-up students threw rocks at drivers and set fire to a dump truck. Drivers often on Lynch Street through their Jackson State College campus throwing bottles and rocks, and yelling, “nigger.”The Jackson police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol on Lynch Street. Bottles and rocks flew after firefighters put the blaze out, and shortly after the midnight hour on May 15, 1970, the officers began firing hundreds of bullets...WW…

$$$$$$$$$$$$The long list of big-money ambassadors includes:NameAssignmentBackstoryGordon SondlandEuropean UnionHotel magnate and one of the Trump campaign’s biggest donors, giving more than $1 millionDonald TapiaJamaicaMajor GOP donor who got rich running a construction supply companyDavid FischerMoroccoOwner of multiple Michigan car dealerships and contributor of $250,000 to the Trump inauguration committeeJeffrey Ross GunterIcelandDermatologist and longtime GOP donorJohn Rakolta Jr.United Arab EmiratesConstruction company heir and major Republican donorLynda BlanchardSloveniaFounder of...…$$$$$$$$$$$$The long list of big-money ambassadors includes:NameAssignmentBackstoryGordon SondlandEuropean UnionHotel magnate and one of the Trump campaign’s biggest donors, giving more than $1 millionDonald TapiaJamaicaMajor GOP donor who got rich running a construction supply companyDavid FischerMoroccoOwner of multiple Michigan car dealerships and contributor of $250,000 to the Trump inauguration committeeJeffrey Ross GunterIcelandDermatologist and longtime GOP donorJohn Rakolta Jr.United Arab EmiratesConstruction company heir and major Republican donorLynda BlanchardSloveniaFounder of...WW…

John Raoux/AP Photo A commercial property in Orlando, Florida for lease, which is likely to be a permanent condition, as commercial real estate demand slips.One of these days, either the horrors of the economy we’re hurtling toward without more federal relief will dawn on policymakers (“it’s a shock unlike anything we’ve ever seen,” Kevin Hassett) or enough Americans will have trouble breathing (see below for the mass herd immunity experiment we’re undertaking) that Congress and the administration will get around to setting a commission to consider the study of doing something.Sometimes...…John Raoux/AP Photo A commercial property in Orlando, Florida for lease, which is likely to be a permanent condition, as commercial real estate demand slips.One of these days, either the horrors of the economy we’re hurtling toward without more federal relief will dawn on policymakers (“it’s a shock unlike anything we’ve ever seen,” Kevin Hassett) or enough Americans will have trouble breathing (see below for the mass herd immunity experiment we’re undertaking) that Congress and the administration will get around to setting a commission to consider the study of doing something.Sometimes...WW…

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Trump and McConnell want to slash enhanced unemployment, a major source of money in the economy right now.First-time jobless claims last week, off two-thirds from the pandemic peak (the previous two weeks were revised down by almost 400,000, too). The bad news is that’s still more than three times as much as any week during the Great Recession. It’s impossible to know how much of this is a backlog of people finally getting their claim through and how much is fresh job loss, but we’re now up to about 38.6 million people losing the jobs they had before...…Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Trump and McConnell want to slash enhanced unemployment, a major source of money in the economy right now.First-time jobless claims last week, off two-thirds from the pandemic peak (the previous two weeks were revised down by almost 400,000, too). The bad news is that’s still more than three times as much as any week during the Great Recession. It’s impossible to know how much of this is a backlog of people finally getting their claim through and how much is fresh job loss, but we’re now up to about 38.6 million people losing the jobs they had before...WW…

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) It does a disservice to Marcia Fudge as a public official to pressure her into a position she was not seeking. Four years of Donald Trump has offered an extreme version of Washington policymaking as a slipshod, ad hoc lunge from one decision to the next. That’s more the norm than people maybe assume. There’s less of a grand design to modern politics and more of a series of haphazard events; this is why governing has struggled so mightily of late, in fact. The case of Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), President-elect Joe Biden’s apparent choice to run the...…Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) It does a disservice to Marcia Fudge as a public official to pressure her into a position she was not seeking. Four years of Donald Trump has offered an extreme version of Washington policymaking as a slipshod, ad hoc lunge from one decision to the next. That’s more the norm than people maybe assume. There’s less of a grand design to modern politics and more of a series of haphazard events; this is why governing has struggled so mightily of late, in fact. The case of Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), President-elect Joe Biden’s apparent choice to run the...WW…