Article snippet: Renée Graham There’s always a white person wearing blackface who will use ignorance as a defense. JOAN VENNOCHI California billionaire Tom Steyer is doubling down on his personal impeachment crusade. JEFF JACOBY When has Bill Weld ever been politically or ideologically reliable? Pelosi says she would accept a bipartisan deal on border security The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, stands behind President Donald Trump at his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, she a vision in suffragist white, head tilted just so, lips pursed in a smirk and arms outreached. New Trump-Russia probe will focus on reports of money laundering, financial compromise, Schiff says Many Republicans made comments about the Democrat congresswomen at the State of the Union Address who dressed in white, a reference the women’s suffrage movement, comparing them to memebers of the Ku Klux Klan. Even before Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, things around Washington, D.C., were already pretty weird. Analysis On Tuesday night, Trump asked for Democrats and Republicans to “break decades of political stalemate” and work together. Reproductive rights activists in several states launched aggressive efforts to shore up state laws to protect abortion access in the event that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. They paid tribute to the women who came before them and gave a nod to their own achievement. The lingering questions about her claims are an unwelc... Link to the full article to read more