April 29, 2020 Trump shelves briefings for now, spars one-on-one with press Ari Fleischer remembers fiddling with the seating chart for the White House press room exactly once, moving Time and Newsweek a few rows back because their reporters rarely showed up.
April 28, 2020 Trump rips ‘hostile’ media, cancels briefing, then holds press conference Donald Trump is now fed up with the daily White House briefings that became the centerpiece of his presidency in the coronavirus era.
April 24, 2020 CDC chief contradicts Trump on misquoting charge over virus rebound It was a moment that seemed to crystallize the increasingly contentious relationship between President Trump, his medical experts and the press.
April 23, 2020 Virus vertigo spins the news, pushing out almost everything else These days we all spend most of our time talking, writing, thinking and worrying about the coronavirus
April 22, 2020 Trump, facing sinking polls on pandemic, targets legal immigrants Never let a good crisis go to waste. President Trump is taking that approach, once popularized by Rahm Emanuel, in spades.
April 21, 2020 The president as insurgent: Why Trump is pushing protests in Democratic states It’s beginning to feel like a culture war, like a Tea Party-style backlash against big government.
April 17, 2020 Why politicians can't just restart the economy The media uproar over the power struggle between the president and the governors may well be focused on the wrong question.
April 16, 2020 Biden and Kavanaugh: A study in contrasts for NY Times, Washington Post The woman who says Joe Biden sexually assaulted her a quarter century ago certainly has some weaknesses and discrepancies in her account.
April 15, 2020 Trump targets new enemies (WHO, governors) and old ones (the media) Just as his battle with the media is reaching new heights, President Trump is finding new enemies in the war on the coronavirus--and who is to blame for the pandemic.
April 14, 2020 Tale of two stories: Trump’s virus delays, Biden denying sexual assault claim The New York Times has published the most detailed account yet of how President Trump dismissed repeated coronavirus warnings for six crucial weeks--an account that he is, not surprisingly, denigrating as “fake news.”