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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, wears a protective mask as he walks to the Senate Floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Lawmakers will receive an update today on implementation of the $2.2 trillion virus rescue package passed by Congress in March. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Coronavirus Crisis

Corporate Immunity, Mitch McConnell’s Priority for Coronavirus Relief, Is a Longtime Focus of the Conservative Right

Akela Lacy

- May 26, 2020

ALEC, a Koch-backed group that drafts model bills for state legislators, has pushed corporate immunity measures on the state level since the early 2000s.

FILE: U.S. President Donald Trump, center, prays during an 'Evangelicals for Trump' Coalition launch event in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. Monday, January 20, 2020, marks the third anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration. Our editors select the best archive images looking back over Trumps term in office. Photographer: Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Coronavirus Crisis

Inside the Influential Evangelical Group Mobilizing to Reelect Trump

Lee Fang

- May 23, 2020

United in Purpose held a call in April detailing its 2020 strategy to reelect Trump, including targeting minorities and using data-mining tools.

FILE- German diplomats award Henry Ford,center, Nazi Germany's highest decoration for foreigners, The Grand Cross of the German Eagle,in Detroit on July, 30, 1938 for his service to the Third Reich. Karl Kapp, German consul in Cleveland pins the medal while Fritz Heiler, left, German consul in Detroit shakes his hand. General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. deny helping the Nazis during World War II and profiting from forced labor at their German subsidiaries. The Washington Post reported Monday, Nov.30,1998, that lawyers and historians were compiling evidence of collaboration for possible use in class-action lawsuits on behalf of former prisoners of war.(AP Photo/file)

Trump Hails "Good Bloodlines" of Henry Ford, Whose Anti-Semitism Inspired Hitler

Robert Mackey

- May 22, 2020

Donald Trump's campaign to change the subject from the coronavirus pandemic took a bizarre turn, as he used the language of eugenics to praise Henry Ford.

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“The Jungle” and the Pandemic: The Meat Industry, Coronavirus, and an Economy in Crisis

Intercepted

- May 20, 2020

HuffPost senior reporter Zach Carter and journalist Ted Genoways are this week's guests.

MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 14, 2019: Viktor Vekselberg, Renova Group Board Chairman and Skolkovo Foundation President, visits Tiepolo-Fest III, a festival of Italian culture held at the Arkhangelskoye museum estate in Krasnogorsk to mark its centenary. Sergei Fadeichev/TASS (Photo by Sergei FadeichevTASS via Getty Images)

Weeks After Sanctions, Russian Oligarch Received $50 Million “Antiquities” Shipment Labeled “Fabergé” at Panama Address

Ryan Grim, Rachel M. Cohen

- May 20, 2020

You never know what’s going to turn up in those maritime shipping records.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 25: U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) speaks to members of the media as she arrives at a House Democratic Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol September 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. House Democrats met to discuss their agenda one day after Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi has announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Coronavirus Crisis

Swing-District Democrats Link With Progressives to Back Paycheck Bill Pelosi Rejected

Ryan Grim

- May 19, 2020

Ten “front-line” Democrats, who represent swing districts and are valued by party leadership, co-sponsored Pramila Jayapal’s Paycheck Recovery Act.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with restaurant executives in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, May 18, 2020. Trump said he is currently taking hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug he has promoted as a treatment to combat coronavirus infection. Photographer: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg

The Coronavirus Crisis

Alarm and Confusion at Fox News as Trump Says He Takes Hydroxychloroquine

Robert Mackey

- May 19, 2020

Fox News viewers were warned not to take medical advice from the president, following Donald Trump's announcement that he takes the drug hydroxychloroquine.

Ronan Farrow arrives at The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Breakfast Gala on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Voices

Ben Smith's NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: "Resistance Journalism"

Glenn Greenwald

- May 18, 2020

The ex-BuzzFeed News editor’s criticisms of Farrow are debatable, but his diagnosis of what is destroying U.S. journalism is dead-on.

LYNN, MA - MARCH 30: General Electric workers hold a protest on Necco Street in Boston, MA out of concerns for their safety on March 30, 2020. The machinists, hand-tool operators, and inspectors who build jet and helicopter engines for the US military were concerned that their shared workstations werent being sanitized between around-the-clock shifts while the highly contagious coronavirus ravages the country, according to their union. A union representative yanked the roughly 20-member crew outside, called in union higher-ups, and pleaded with the company to allow everybody to be sent home, with pay, for two weeks. When that was rejected, the union tried for five days of self-quarantining until the mans test results came back, followed by temperature checks at the plants medical center before anyone was allowed back to work. Still, no dice. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

The Coronavirus Crisis

Defense Workers, Deemed "Essential," Protest Conditions as Overseas Weapons Sales Continue

Akela Lacy

- May 18, 2020

Thanks to industry lobbying, weapons manufacturing plants are open amid the coronavirus pandemic to fulfill billions of dollars in weapons sales.

Protestors gather with US flags as they attend an "Open New York" Rally on May 14, 2020 in Commack, on Long Island, New York. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

The Coronavirus Crisis

Long Island Protest Praised by Trump Featured Anti-Vaxxer Call to "Hang Fauci"

Robert Mackey

- May 17, 2020

Donald Trump praised protesters who harassed a journalist on Long Island this week at a rally where one man called for the execution of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Politics

Corporate Immunity, Mitch McConnell’s Priority for Coronavirus Relief, Is a Longtime Focus of the Conservative Right

Inside the Influential Evangelical Group Mobilizing to Reelect Trump

Trump Hails "Good Bloodlines" of Henry Ford, Whose Anti-Semitism Inspired Hitler

“The Jungle” and the Pandemic: The Meat Industry, Coronavirus, and an Economy in Crisis

Weeks After Sanctions, Russian Oligarch Received $50 Million “Antiquities” Shipment Labeled “Fabergé” at Panama Address

Swing-District Democrats Link With Progressives to Back Paycheck Bill Pelosi Rejected

Alarm and Confusion at Fox News as Trump Says He Takes Hydroxychloroquine

Ben Smith's NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: "Resistance Journalism"

Defense Workers, Deemed "Essential," Protest Conditions as Overseas Weapons Sales Continue

Long Island Protest Praised by Trump Featured Anti-Vaxxer Call to "Hang Fauci"

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Politics

Corporate Immunity, Mitch McConnell’s Priority for Coronavirus Relief, Is a Longtime Focus of the Conservative Right

Inside the Influential Evangelical Group Mobilizing to Reelect Trump

Trump Hails "Good Bloodlines" of Henry Ford, Whose Anti-Semitism Inspired Hitler

“The Jungle” and the Pandemic: The Meat Industry, Coronavirus, and an Economy in Crisis

Weeks After Sanctions, Russian Oligarch Received $50 Million “Antiquities” Shipment Labeled “Fabergé” at Panama Address

Swing-District Democrats Link With Progressives to Back Paycheck Bill Pelosi Rejected

Alarm and Confusion at Fox News as Trump Says He Takes Hydroxychloroquine

Ben Smith's NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: "Resistance Journalism"

Defense Workers, Deemed "Essential," Protest Conditions as Overseas Weapons Sales Continue

Long Island Protest Praised by Trump Featured Anti-Vaxxer Call to "Hang Fauci"

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