A mailer sent out by the Democrat party of Virginia depicts Republican candidate Ed Gillespie alongside President Donald Trump with the torch-bearing white supremacists from the rally in Charlottesville pictured below them.
For several days in mid-August, Donald Trump found himself ensnared in a bizarre controversy over the “very fine people” marching alongside neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va. It was a stupid thing to say—he said it several times, of course—and he was roundly criticized for his failure to condemn…
The resignation of A.R. Bernard from the White House Evangelical Advisory Board was nearly ignored amid the slew of high-profile departures from White House advisory councils in the wake of President Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville. And for good reason, as Bernard had begun…
"Make no mistake,” writes New Yorker editor David Remnick, “white supremacists are now at the forefront of American politics.” That platitudinous “make no mistake” put us in mind of Joe Queenan’s observation years ago in these pages. The phrase is “an underhanded way of clinching an argument…
Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said on Thursday said that the Trump administration “can and must do better” in addressing America’s racial divisions.
"Make no mistake,” writes New Yorker editor David Remnick, “white supremacists are now at the forefront of American politics.” That platitudinous “make no mistake” put us in mind of Joe Queenan’s observation years ago in these pages. The phrase is “an underhanded way of clinching an argument…
President Donald Trump ditched the TelePrompTer during a wide-ranging campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona Tuesday night, and set Twitter ablaze with hot takes.
It’s been almost a week since the violence in Charlottesville, and we are still parsing the meta-story about what our president said in its aftermath and then expanded upon a few days later and then doubled back around to re-re-explain on Tuesday, just so people wouldn't get the wrong idea about…
ISSUE 5! The American Original, the McLaughlin Group, is back. . . . Or is it? And while John McLaughlin has left the earth, a new pilot episode has just been released with our Washington Examiner colleague Tom Rogan as host. Rogan, a former panelist, considered McLaughlin a mentor . . . but didn't…
Tennessee senator Bob Corker issued a sharp critique of Donald Trump Thursday, adding to a chorus of Republican criticism around the president’s handling of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
President Donald Trump tripled down on his controversial reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, taking to Twitter Wednesday to decry the growing movement to remove Confederate statues and monuments.
Let's cut to the heart of a big problem with Trump's remarks about Charlottesville over the last few days: They were ignorant and inarticulate.
President Donald Trump’s response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has drawn repeated criticism from Republican lawmakers. On Thursday, the president fired back.
Around dinnertime on August 14, President Donald Trump tweeted about the “truly bad people” who played a role in the Charlottesville race riots. Less than 24 hours later he highlighted some “very fine people” who were there, too.
Evaluating the violence in Charlottesville and the reaction to it from public officials and commentators requires basic levels of reason and decency. To botch it reveals some terribly unflattering trait: It could be related to political or partisan obsession, ego, honest-to-goodness insensitivity,…
Must free trade come with social justice? That's what Canada is saying, reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown reports."[A]s we head into NAFTA renegotiations this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his administration want to expand the rules to include sections on gender issues, climate…
American politics is at present dominated by two sorts of commentator. The first are those who will never find anything good to say about Donald Trump. Nothing he says and nothing his administration achieves will ever be praised by them for any reason. Any new development is an excuse to remind the…
On Tuesday, Republican lawmakers called for moral clarity and sharply criticized remarks made by the president after he again assigned blame to "both sides" for the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
There’s a reason why it was necessary for President Donald Trump to denounce specifically and unequivocally the white nationalists whose demonstration last weekend in Virginia became violent—not the “many sides” who were also protesting, or violence in general. It’s true there were left-wing…
There are reports that White House aides were caught off guard by Donald Trump’s Tuesday press conference in which he said the “alt-left” deserved blame for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend and that there were “fine people” on both sides of the white nationalist rally there. Trump “went…
In an explosive, combative Tuesday press conference, President Donald Trump blasted media coverage of white nationalism, defended groups who assembled to protest the removal of a Charlottesville statue of Robert E. Lee, drew an equivalence between “both sides” of protesters, and accused “alt-left”…
President Trump’s statement on Charlottesville caught my attention roughly halfway through: “We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal,” he said. Trump was invoking the Declaration of Independence, which indeed set forth that truth, and on which we were founded as a…
For more than six months, the White House has been a chaotic mess—its internal processes disordered by feuds, its diplomacy and relations with Congress undermined by leaks and backbiting, its external communications confused by an undisciplined boss. John Kelly, made chief of staff in early August,…
President Trump gave a much better statement Monday on the dismaying events in Charlottesville than he did on Saturday. But while he now is willing to call out the KKK, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists as “evil,” he still won’t use the T word—“terrorism.”
A few thoughts about what happened in Charlottesville over the weekend:
The white supremacists who demonstrated over the week weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, may have felt their numbers guaranteed anonymity—but social-media users have been poring over images of the rally to identify those participants who engaged in violent clashes with counterprotesters.
Helicopter commuting used to be something even middle class New Yorkers could afford. That is, until a fatal crash at the Pan Am building killed multiple people. With the rise of Uber, BusinessWeek documents the resurgence of affordable helicopter travel in Gotham.
GoDaddy, the web-hosting company, is terminating its relationship with the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, which has been offering incendiary apologetics for last weekend’s white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren discusses with Eric Felten the remarks the president made today about Charlottesville, and why those remarks should have been made Saturday.
Two days after neo-Nazis marched openly in Virginia, President Donald Trump has yet to explicitly condemn their behavior. But the president found a different target to denounce Monday after a black CEO resigned in protest from the White House’s manufacturing council.
Two days after violent clashes at a white supremacist rally in Virginia left one dead, President Donald Trump on Monday finally gave an explicit rebuke of the racist groups involved.
Thomas More—knight and saint—is a familiar figure in the popular imagination. His speech to William Roper about giving even the devil the benefit of law—"What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? ... And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on…
There’s not much more that can be said about President Trump’s insufficient and equivocal statement on Saturday in response to a rally of white nationalists and neo-Nazis in Virginia that turned violent. Our editor-in-chief, Stephen Hayes, demonstrated that Trump has a recent history of being…
Donald Trump is an unflinching critic of anything and everything he finds un-American. On Saturday, he flinched.