Laura Grantham‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’verified_publisherPOLITICO - By GARRETT M. GRAFFNearly every American above a certain age remembers precisely where they were on September 11, 2001. For a small handful of Americans—many of them among the most senior officials in the U.S. government—that day conjures memories of a bunker underneath the White House, built for the Cold War but …
Laura GranthamMost Republicans are in denial about the probe into Trump-Russia tiesverified_publisherLos Angeles TimesOn Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, a Republican from the San Joaquin Valley, took a trip to the White House that made as big a splash as California’s recent torrential rains. Even though he is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee that is investigating links between Russia and members of …
Laura GranthamTo commemorate Black History Month, Trump administration decrees that white supremacists can't be terroristsverified_publisherSalon - By Chauncey DeVegaDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to "take care of our African-American people." Given Trump's embrace of overtly or implicitly racist "law and order" policies, his history of racial discrimination against African-Americans and other people of color at his properties and …
Laura GranthamMemo to liberals: be the majority you wish to seeverified_publisherVox - Seth MasketHere’s an imaginary newspaper article from mid-November 2018: The Democratic wave that swept the nation in last week’s election was the product of a more organized and more progressive effort that broke the rules about how minority parties get back into power. Defying early expectations, Democrats …
Laura GranthamTrump team looking at ways to limit the power of DNI, sources sayverified_publisherCNNWashington CNN — President-elect Donald Trump is looking at possible ways to limit the power of the director of National Intelligence, according to sources close to the transition. The thinking within the Trump transition team is that the DNI often gets in the way of the 16 intelligence agencies it …
Laura GranthamI organized for justice for black people under Obama. Here’s my plan for Trump’s presidency.verified_publisherVox - Derecka PurnellI named my son, who was born just days before the election, after Marcus Garvey, a West Indian revolutionary most celebrated for leading the “Back to Africa” movement in the 1920s. Garvey believed that by returning to the motherland, black people, who were oppressed in the United States, would have …
