Sophia Tesfaye

1 month ago | salon.com | Sophia Tesfaye

Hours after President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office where he publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the week before that his administration is "doing very well with Russia" and "it may be easier dealing with" Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian military launched a series of deadly missile and drone attacks, killing dozens of civilians. "This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Sophia Tesfaye

8 hours agoActivists vandalize Trump golf resort over his comments on emptying out GazaLONDON (AP) — Pro-Palestinian activists said Saturday they have vandalized one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Scotland in response to his proposal to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population.

Dec 14, 2024 | salon.com | Sophia Tesfaye

Senate Democrats have started to say their goodbyes. “Some of the happiest times I have had in the Senate were on Joe Manchin’s boat,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The New York leader recently took to the Senate floor to thank Manchin for his frolicking houseboat parties on the Potomac — always featuring a bipartisan guest list, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin made sure to mention.

Oct 28, 2024 | salon.com | Sophia Tesfaye

After the 2016 election, once everyone recovered from the shock, the analyses of what happened started to gel into a conventional wisdom that argued Donald Trump won because a bunch of non-college-educated white people felt "economic anxiety." So thousands of stories and features from reporters were sent out to rural Pennsylvania diners and Iowa church socials to figure out what Trump voters truly want.

Jul 5, 2024 | salon.com | Sophia Tesfaye

“I have the answer to the Crooked Joe Biden Incompetence Puzzle," Donald Trump claims in a new Truth Social post. "Let’s do another Debate."Trump issued the challenge hours after he declared on the golf course that the president would drop out of the race for the White House, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris as Trump's opponent. “She’s so bad. She’s so pathetic," he said of Harris on the Fourth of July.