Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________• President Trump said on Sunday that a group of four minority congresswomen should “go back” to the countries they came from. (Only one of the women, Ilhan Omar, is from another country.) Mr. Trump’s slur, an established racist trope, is commonly used to single out the perceived foreignness of nonwhite, non-Christian people. • In a news analysis, Peter Baker argues that no president in the last century has fanned the flames of white resentment more than Mr. Trump.

Source: New York Times July 15, 2019 04:07 UTC