Trump’s Real 2nd Term Agenda: Not Being a One-Term ‘Loser’

By Asawin Suebsaeng

The president’s advisers are crafting a future agenda. But his priorities, which he’s struggled to articulate, are mainly to preserve his reputation.

By Diane McWhorter

If business types really care about social justice, they’ll defund the country’s most prominent purveyor of anti-justice poison. And here’s an unlikely model for them to follow.

By Malcolm Jones

The president’s niece, whose tell-all book about her family appears next month, fell in love with the Nobel prize-winner’s fiction in college. Then things got really interesting.

By Justin Baragona

While Scott denounced the tweet, Trump administration official Alex Azar dodged when pressed directly on it, claiming he hadn’t seen it.

By David R. Lurie

From helping to get Trump impeached to fumbling schemes to get Trump cronies off of the legal hook, the attorney general has been on an incredible losing streak.

By Tom Sykes, Tim Teeman

A new book says it has “hit home” for Harry “that Charles and the Queen aren’t going to be around forever,” and William and Kate feel “screwed over” by his and Meghan’s royal exit.

By Nick Schager

Liz Garbus opens up about her new HBO true-crime docuseries “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” chronicling the late writer Michelle McNamara’s investigation into the Golden State Killer.

By Candida Moss

A new discovery in Ireland is a seamy reminder of one of history’s oldest secrets.

1. WTF

The president made the disturbing choice to tweet video of at least one person from The Villages in Florida chanting “White Power” to those who yelled “Fuck Trump.”

2. SENSELESS VIOLENCE

Police have confirmed that a man died at the scene after a gunman fired indiscriminately into protesters in Jefferson Square Park.

3. STICK IT TO THEM

It illuminates dust I didn’t know was there and sucks it up seconds later.

4. CEASE AND DESIST

The band has threatened to sue Trump over using a hit song and breaking a previous cease-and-desist order.

5. GRIM MILESTONE

The number of people who are known to be infected by COVID-10 topped 10 million worldwide on Sunday morning, with the U.S. leading the way.

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