Can we stop pretending Trump is fit to be president?  —  At various times over the past three and a half years, many of us have asked what would happen if President Trump truly went over the edge or if his behavior became so frightening that his unfitness for the most powerful position on Earth could no longer be denied.

Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President  —  So many mysteries surround Donald Trump: the contents of his tax returns, the apparent miracle of his graduation from college.  Some of them are merely curiosities; others are of national importance, such as whether he understood the nuclear-weapons briefing given to every president.

Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina  —  President Donald Trump on Monday morning threatened to move August's Republican National Convention out of North Carolina unless there are guarantees the state will let everyone attend.  —  “I love the Great State …

POLITICO Playbook: Happy Memorial Day  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE PRESIDENT'S MEMORIAL DAY MESSAGES, on Twitter this morning: 8:16 a.m.: “HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!” ...  8:18 a.m.: “TRANSITION TO GREATNESS!  Get ready, it is already happening again!” ...  retweet of 11:06 p.m. tweet: “OBAMAGATE” …

Trump Tweets and Golfs, but Makes No Mention of Virus's Toll  —  Coronavirus deaths in the United States approached a staggering 100,000, a number the president once predicted would never be reached.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump's motorcade pulled into his golf club in Virginia …

Is This the Blueprint for Sanders and AOC to Take Over the Democratic Party?  —  “When [Donald] Trump assumed the presidency after a 2016 election that Democrats should have won by a landslide ...” writes John Nichols in his new book, “the crisis came into focus.  It was not the Republican Party that was ruining our politics.

Trump's Five Simple Tricks for Stealing the Election  —  Sure, he could use ordinary cheating to eke out another narrow Electoral College win and popular vote loss.  But he has other cards up his sleeve if that doesn't work out this time.  —  BEAST INSIDE

Why Joe Rogan's Spotify Deal Matters  —  Talking to the podcasting king about his monster Spotify deal.  —  Ms. Weiss is an Opinion staff writer and editor, and the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.”  —  When I saw the news that the king of all podcasting, Joe Rogan …

Wuhan Tests Nine Million People for Coronavirus in 10 Days  —  City used ‘sample pooling’ for mass-testing regimen after a handful of fresh cases sparked concern  —  HONG KONG—The central Chinese city of Wuhan said early Monday that it had collected coronavirus swab tests from more than nine million …

Trump sees a ‘rigged election’ ahead.  Democrats see a constitutional crisis in the making.  —  First he lit into Michigan and Nevada, threatening to withhold federal funding because of his assertion that both states were preparing to commit voter fraud through mail-in ballot applications.

By Air and Sea, Mercenaries Landed in Libya.  Then the Plan Went South.  —  A short-lived mission uncovered by U.N. investigators offers a glimpse into the world of those who have thrived off Libya's chaos.  —  CAIRO — Two former British marines piloted their boats, a pair of military-grade inflatables …

Trump Wants Schools ‘Opened ASAP’ After Watching Fox News Segment  —  ‘VERY GOOD INFORMATION’  —  “Schools in our country should be opened ASAP.  Much very good information now available,” Donald Trump tweeted on the eve of Memorial Day as the U.S. coronavirus death toll approached 100,000.

WHO temporarily suspends trial of hydroxychloroquine over safety concerns  —  The World Health Organization is temporarily pausing tests of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment in order to review safety concerns, the agency's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu said Monday.

A Window Onto an American Nightmare  —  As the homelessness crisis and the coronavirus crisis converge, what can we learn from one city's struggles?  —  Zach Hickson arrived in San Francisco to stay three years ago, at twenty-seven, because nowhere in America seemed more appealing at the time.

New Zealand leader carries on with TV interview during quake  —  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern barely skipped a beat when an earthquake struck during a live television interview  —  WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern barely skipped a beat …

As Trump removes federal watchdogs, some loyalists replacing them have ‘preposterous’ conflicts  —  The political appointee President Trump installed last week to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Transportation Department is the same official in charge of one of the agency's key divisions.