The Deeply Pessimistic Intellectual Roots of Black Lives Matter, 1619 Project, and Much Else in Woke America

Plus: COVID-19 Power Trips of Leftist Politicians, Teachers Unions Must Stop September 5 2020 Happy Labor Day weekend from Washington, just one place where the left wants the sky to fall because of COVID-19. This has got to stop, Bob Wickers writes. President Trump has run up a sound environmental record, his EPA chief says. Kevin Mooney has the story. Plus: the rise of critical race theory; New York’s dead-letter suit against the Postal Service; the D.C. mayor’s chutzpah, and what the new jobs report portends. Forty-five years ago today, President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt when Secret Service agents tackle Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, when she points a handgun at Ford near the Capitol in Sacramento, California. COMMENTARY [The Deeply Pessimistic Intellectual Roots of Black Lives Matter, 1619 Project, and Much Else in Woke America]( [The Deeply Pessimistic Intellectual Roots of Black Lives Matter, 1619 Project, and Much Else in Woke America]( By John Murawski Much of the dire rhetoric behind America’s moment of racial reckoning comes from “critical race theory,” a decades-old philosophy deeply skeptical about the possibility of racial progress. [More]( COMMENTARY [COVID-19 Power Trips of Leftist Politicians, Teachers Unions Must Stop]( [COVID-19 Power Trips of Leftist Politicians, Teachers Unions Must Stop]( By Bob Wickers In Los Angeles, the teachers union refuses to go back to classrooms unless politicians abolish charter and private schools, eliminate unpaid rent evictions, and defund law enforcement. [More]( COMMENTARY [Postal Service Lawsuit Is a Delivery of Pure Politics]( [Postal Service Lawsuit Is a Delivery of Pure Politics]( By David Ditch The lawsuit filed by New York State Attorney General Letitia James against the U.S. Postal Service reads more like a 64-page list of talking points than a serious legal document. [More]( NEWS [EPA Chief Touts Environmental Gains, Hits ‘Single Issue Advocacy’]( [EPA Chief Touts Environmental Gains, Hits ‘Single Issue Advocacy’]( By Kevin Mooney “For environmental policy to work nationally, the federal government and states must work together as partners, not as adversaries,” EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler says. [More]( COMMENTARY [DC Mayor’s Attempt to Shift Blame Falls Flat]( [DC Mayor’s Attempt to Shift Blame Falls Flat]( By Cully Stimson It apparently never occurred to Mayor Muriel Bowser that renaming a street after Black Lives Matter, a radical, violent, Marxist-inspired group, would act as a dog whistle for violent radicals to flock... [More]( COMMENTARY [ICYMI: Unemployment Rate Drops to 8.4% as August Sees 1.4 Million More Jobs]( [ICYMI: Unemployment Rate Drops to 8.4% as August Sees 1.4 Million More Jobs]( By Timothy Doescher August is the fourth straight month in which the economy added jobs and the unemployment rate fell despite the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, again upsetting experts’ predictions. [More]( [LOGO-CHARCOAL_75percent.jpg] The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. [Donate to The Daily Signal]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Find us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Follow us on Twitter]( How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at [comments@dailysignal.com](. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 [(800) 546-2843]( Add [morningbell@heritage.org]( to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as {EMAIL}. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, [please click here to update your subscription.](