Tag: Racism

A person holds a sign at a rally organized by city officials ahead of politically conservative rallies scheduled for this weekend outside of City Hall in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Beltway Confidential

New study shows 43 percent of Americans think supporting the First Amendment is racist

Philip Wegmann · November 1, 2017 5:57 pm

On Monday, Paul Manafort, one of President Trump's former campaign chairmen, was charged with conspiracy, among other counts. By Tuesday, journalists were already convinced of his guilt and the implication that the Russian state had tipped the 2016 election in Trump's favor. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Media convinced Russia tipped the election to Trump

Eddie Scarry · November 1, 2017 4:01 am

After Alan Dershowitz delivered a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, the student newspaper published a editorial cartoon of the Harvard Law professor that many condemned as a throwback to the anti-Semitic imagery of the Nazi era. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

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Alan Dershowitz: Why is a Jewish-American newspaper defending an anti-Semitic cartoon?

Alan Dershowitz · October 31, 2017 11:00 pm

Energy and Environment

Scientists use Manafort scandal to attack Trump’s USDA science nominee

John Siciliano · October 31, 2017 9:19 pm

Kelly told Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Monday that a "lack of compromise" caused the Civil War. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House: ‘Absurd and disgraceful’ to judge John Kelly’s Civil War comments as racist

Sarah Bedford · October 31, 2017 7:12 pm

White House chief of staff John Kelly comments on the Civil War sparked backlash. He said, "the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

John Kelly faces backlash for saying ‘lack of an ability to compromise’ led to Civil War

Melissa Quinn · October 31, 2017 2:32 pm

Ed Gillespie has unequivocally condemned all forms of white supremacy. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Latino group smears Ed Gillespie in racist ad

Philip Wegmann · October 30, 2017 9:27 pm

The ad shows a white supporter of the GOP's candidate for governor in Virginia, Ed Gillespie, hunting down minority children in his pickup truck. (Image courtesy screenshot)

GOP portrayed as Confederates hunting down minority kids in Virginia campaign ad

Anna Giaritelli · October 30, 2017 4:09 pm

"After an additional review of the project, the [National Park Service] decided not to move forward with funding the project." (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Feds pull funding for Black Panther legacy project in Berkeley after backlash

Naomi Lim · October 29, 2017 5:48 pm

Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif. (pictured above center), said on Saturday afternoon that Houston Astros first basement Yuli Gurriel should have a suitably harsh penalty for a racist gesture made during the World Series. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

California Rep. Brad Sherman calls for harsh penalty for player caught making racist gesture in World Series

Kyle Feldscher · October 28, 2017 7:19 pm

Shelbyville, Tenn., is one of two towns expected to prepare for white nationalist rallies, as well as their counter-protestors, on Saturday. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Tennessee towns prepare for white nationalist rallies

Mandy Mayfield · October 28, 2017 4:04 pm

The media perpetually whine about President Trump threatening their freedom to tell the truth and then lie about his "bullying," "racism," and everything else he says in public. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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The media’s Big Lie overshadows Trump’s harmless ones

Eddie Scarry · October 28, 2017 4:01 am