The People, Organizations Denouncing Stephen Bannon
The denouncements came swiftly after President-elect Donald J. Trump made his first key appointments. On Sunday, Trump announced his choices for his senior White House leadership team: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and Trump for President CEO Stephen K. Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor to the […]
Anti-Trump Protests Continue, Focus on Inauguration Day
More protests are planned following the election of Donald Trump as president, with several groups organizing marches on inauguration day in January. Smaller demonstrations are also taking place. Students at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. have planned a walkout Tuesday, after which they plan to walk to the Trump International Hotel. Just one […]
20 Horrific Acts Of Violence In Donald Trump’s First Days As President-Elect
Donald Trump’s first day as president-elect spurred racism and vitriol across America, and the entirety of the worldwide web. A week later, assaults and intimidation against minorities have only worsened, despite the real estate billionaire demanding his supporters put an immediate end to the violence. “I am so saddened to hear that,” Trump said Sunday […]
Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track of Them
In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews, while crimes against Latinos grew by 35 percent. Last week, shortly after Donald J. Trump was elected the country’s next president, the Southern Poverty Law Center put up a form on its […]
Donald Trump’s Appeal to White Nationalists
The election of Donald J. Trump as 45th president of the United States came as a shock to many—perhaps even to the billionaire himself. Across the U.S. and around the world, people asked the same question: What just happened? Here was a man with no political nor military experience; who had angered just about every […]
Bernie Sanders Slams ‘Liberal Elite’
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made an appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert Monday evening, his first guest interview with Colbert since President-elect Donald Trump was announced last week as the U.S. presidential winner. Sanders met with Colbert to promote his new book, “Our Revolution,” which debuts Tuesday. “Now that the results of […]
Can the Muslim American family survive Trump?
The day after the presidential election, my 14-year-old son left a message in the shower. With his little brother’s foam alphabet letters, he spelled out, “Haters gonna hate us.” It was the “us” that transformed the popular catchphrase into something troubling. I knew that the rhetoric of this election cycle had affected my children, but […]
Donald Trump makes first key White House appointments
US president-elect Donald Trump made his first two key appointments on Sunday, one an overture to Republican inner circles and the other a shot across the bow of the Washington DC establishment. Trump named GOP chief Reince Priebus as his chief of staff, and tapped right-wing Breitbart news executive Stephen Bannon as chief strategist and […]
Obama Covers Range of Issues at News Conference Ahead of Final Foreign Trip
President Barack Obama addressed a wide range of foreign policy and domestic issues Monday during a news conference with reporters at the White House. The president stressed a readiness to “accelerate a smooth transition” for the president-elect. “It’s part of what makes this country work,” he said. Obama said he asked his team to make […]
Ilhan Omar: First female Somali American lawmaker
New York, the United States – An election that won Donald Trump the White House and gave Republicans control of Congress was an unlikely moment for the United States to also get its first Somali American legislator in the form of headscarf-wearing Ilhan Omar. Omar, a 34-year-old refugee from Somalia’s bullet-ridden capital, Mogadishu, won a […]