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.

Biden makes 1st in-person appearance in more than 2 months  —  NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden made his first in-person appearance in more than two months on Monday as he marked Memorial Day by laying a wreath at a veterans park near his Delaware home.  —  Since abruptly canceling …

The ‘Liberal Leaning’ Media Has Passed Its Tipping Point  —  A return to balance would be commercially unviable.  The best solution may be an honest embrace of bias.  —  About 35 years ago I was sitting at lunch next to Jeane Kirkpatrick, a onetime Democrat who became a foreign-policy adviser …

Top Republican yanks endorsement of House candidate who made offensive social media posts  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is rescinding his endorsement of GOP congressional candidate Ted Howze after POLITICO uncovered dozens of derogatory social media posts from his accounts.

In crucial Florida, some senior voters cast a skeptical eye toward Trump's reelection  —  Allen Lehner was a Republican until Donald Trump became his party's nominee in 2016.  The 74-year-old retiree says he couldn't bring himself to vote for someone who lied, belittled others …

Trump Calls Marine Corps Veteran and Congressman ‘an American Fraud’ on Memorial Day  —  SEMPER FI  —  President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Memorial Day to call a sitting congressman and Marine Corps veteran “an American fraud.”  In the Monday afternoon tweet, Trump …

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.

'Something isn't right': U.S. probes soaring beef prices  —  Supermarket customers are paying more for beef than they have in decades during the coronavirus pandemic.  But at the same time, the companies that process the meat for sale are paying farmers and ranchers staggeringly low prices for cattle.

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.

Shaun King Keeps Raising Money, and Questions About Where It Goes  —  ‘LEVELS OF CONFLICT’  —  He blamed issues at The North Star on over-ambition, but seven former employees of the site King launched with great fanfare painted a darker picture.  —  When Shaun King and progressive journalist …

President Trump speaks at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, likening military service to those on front lines of coronavirus fight  —  President Donald Trump gave a Memorial Day address at Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Monday honoring recent and past fallen military members and likening their service …

Jair Bolsonaro's populism is leading Brazil to disaster  —  If life were a morality tale, the Covid-19 antics would turn Brazilians against the populist president  —  On a visit to Brazil last year, I had a chat with a prominent financier about the parallels between Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro.

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 …

The opening of Netanyahu's trial - in search of justice or a vendetta  —  Grosso modo Netanyahu's position is that, in general, the whole legal process against him has no justification or legitimacy.  —  This article was written before the trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

My Mother Died of the Coronavirus.  It's Time She Be Counted.  —  Not having an accurate, honest, nationwide way to tally Covid-19 cases will only add to the current tragedy.  —  Dr. Rosenthal is a contributing opinion writer.  —  We recently received the death certificate for my mother …

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'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

Trump Sabotaged America's Recovery Even Before COVID-19 Began  —  The president's pre-pandemic fiscal recklessness will slow the nation's rebound.  —  “Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back,” President Donald Trump said last week as governors nationwide began relaxing the restrictions prompted by Covid-19.

The vote-by-mail cases that could decide the 2020 election  —  How vote-by-mail could change the 2020 election  —  In this weekly column “Cross Exam,” Elie Honig, a CNN legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor, gives his take on the latest legal news.  Post your questions below.

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 …

A prophet in his own city: Jacob Kornbluh, the Hasidic reporter standing up for social-distancing  —  As a public service during this pandemic, the Forward is providing free, unlimited access to all coronavirus articles.  If you'd like to support our independent Jewish journalism, click here.