Trump attacks wokeness — and betrays his own voters

Butler’s words remain true today. Rich, old, (white) men don’t fight these wars. Historically, it has fallen to young, poor and working-class people on both sides of the color line to make that ... Read More

Fact check: Trump’s latest lies about California’s elections and mail-in voting

President Donald Trump has for years told outlandish lies about elections in Democratic-dominated California. Trump made more false claims on the subject in a Fox News interview on Friday, prompting ... Read More

Trump Is Trying to Shut Down a Lending Program That Helps His Voters

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Readers write

In reference to “Vance’s Atlanta visit hypes Trump tax law,” AJC, Aug. 8, Trump has betrayed his low- and middle-income supporters. No matter how Trump rebrands his tax-and-spending bill and spreads ... Read More

Fetterman says Democrats have ‘forgotten why we lost’ and Trump is ‘not an autocrat’

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has a warning for his party: learn from the politically charged whirlwind that put Donald Trump back in the White House and secured Republicans control of both chambers ... Read More

Trump says he has ‘the right to do anything I want,’ while again pushing ‘dictator’ claims

Gov. JB Pritzker began the week with a rather extraordinary speech in Chicago, responding to Donald Trump’s apparent plans to deploy National Guard troops to public streets in the Midwest’s largest ... Read More