Controversial Trump Aide Katharine Gorka Helped End Funding For Group That Fights White Supremacy  —  Life After Hate works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis.  The Trump administration decided it wasn't a priority.  —  WASHINGTON Weeks before a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville …

Fifth leader resigns from Trump's manufacturing council  —  The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing has resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, making him the fifth business leader to do so.  —  “I'm resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative …

The Effects of Terminating Payments for Cost-Sharing Reductions  —  CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the effects on the federal budget, health insurance coverage, market stability, and premiums if payments for cost-sharing reductions would end after December 2017.  —  430.71 KB

Campus Conservatives Gave the Alt-Right a Platform  —  They deserve their fair share of the blame for the entirely predictable consequences of that choice.  —  Why did so many otherwise respectable conservative groups host Milo Yiannopoulos, an apologist for the alt-right, on college campuses across America?

Far Right Plans Its Next Moves With a New Energy  —  The white supremacists and right-wing extremists who came together over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., are now headed home, many of them ready and energized, they said, to set their sights on bigger prizes.  —  Some were making arrangements to appear at future marches.

Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion  —  Regarding last week's events in Charlottesville, Va., consider the following propositions:  —  (1) James Alex Fields Jr., the young man who on Saturday, police say, rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd in Charlottesville …

Holocaust Memorial in Boston vandalized  —  (CNN)A 17-year-old has been charged with willful and malicious destruction of property for allegedly vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial in Boston Monday, according to the Boston Police Department.  —  Photos from the memorial showed shattered glass lying …

From Trump Aide to Single Mom  —  A.J. Delgado and Jason Miller stood in the New York Hilton ballroom on the night of the 2016 election, watching the man they helped elect president deliver the unlikeliest of victory speeches.  It was a heady moment for the small band of aides and operatives …

Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?  —  A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to this place?”  The more relevant question after Charlottesville—and other deadly episodes in Ferguson, Charleston …

The Obama-Trump Voters Are Real.  Here's What They Think.  —  The story of the 2016 presidential election is simple.  Donald J. Trump made huge gains among white voters without a college degree.  His gains were large enough to cancel out considerable losses among well-educated white voters and a decade of demographic shifts.

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Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn't Going to Change After Charlottesville  —  “Racism is evil,” declared Donald Trump on Monday, “and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups …

“What kind of society do you want to live in?”:  Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing  —  “CBSN: On Assignment” airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and on our streaming network, CBSN.  Explore more on this topic in our “Behind the Lens” report.

Trump Retweets Cartoon of Train Killing CNN Reporter  —  President Trump has retweeted a cartoon of a train bearing the Trump logo killing a CNN reporter, just days after a protester at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was fatally run down by a driver who participated in that rally.

Kansas Democrat Paul Davis announces congressional bid, says he won't vote for Pelosi  —  The man who many thought would make another run for Kansas governor is officially running for Congress instead.  —  Democrat Paul Davis announced his entrance into the race for the 2nd District congressional seat Tuesday morning.

In January, Fox News Posted a Video of Cars Mowing Down Protesters That Urged Viewers to “Study the Technique”  —  Conservatives are rightfully aghast at the terror attack on Saturday that left one woman dead and more than a dozen injured in Charlottesville, Virginia.  —  Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox.

Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Trump Temperament Consequences … - Donald Trump making Washington politicians uncomfortable may be a good thing according to half of the American public.  But his behavior is seen as making it more difficult to get anything done according to the latest Monmouth University Poll.

The Daily 202: Trump acts like the president of the Red States of America  —  THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump often behaves as if he's first and foremost the president of the states and the people who voted for him.  —  That's at odds with the American tradition, and it's problematic as a governing philosophy …

The Last Word: Jake Tapper on Trump, ‘SNL’ and Old-School Rap  —  CNN anchor explains how he's angered both sides of the political debate and why his wife thought a controversial ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit was sexist  —  Jake Tapper wasn't on the phone with Rolling Stone for more than 30 seconds …

Fox guest: Confederate flag and LGBTQ pride flag “represent the exact same thing”  —  STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): What do you think about [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi [(D-CA)], who made this statement yesterday: “It shouldn't take the president of the United States two days to summon …

“You will not replace us”: a French philosopher explains the Charlottesville chant  —  American white nationalists may not realize it, but the fear of replacement is essential to the work of a controversial French writer named Renaud Camus.  —  Tiki torch-wielding white supremacists marched …

Two top Hogan officials OK'd participation in Trump voter fraud commission, emails show  —  Two top aides to Gov. Larry Hogan approved of a Maryland official joining a controversial Trump administration panel probing alleged voter fraud — a greater level of involvement by the Hogan administration than previously known.