
Biden calls for unity after Buffalo, and conservatives see another cause for division
CNN
America now has a President who will call evil by its name.
But Joe Biden's pleas for citizens to unite in purging White supremacy, which he warned on Tuesday was poisoning the nation, were quickly undermined by a backlash from conservative media stars who accused him of exploiting the murder of 10 Black Americans in Buffalo by a right-wing extremist.
The disconnect reflected how the aching polarization and tribalism of the country's politics preclude any hope of common ground, even after the horror that unfolded in a supermarket in the western New York city on Saturday. Far from bringing America together, every successive tragedy appears to pull it further apart.

Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that electing the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his time in Albany.

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a striking graphic on its official X account. Uncle Sam, a symbol of American patriotism, is depicted nailing a poster to a wall that reads, “Help your country… and yourself.” Written underneath the poster is the sentence, “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,” and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement hot line.