Josh Christenson is a media analyst for the Washington Free Beacon. He graduated from Wheaton College in 2016. Before joining the Free Beacon, he was a high school teacher and a legislative intern in the U.S. House of Representatives. He can be reached at christenson@freebeacon.com.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Thursday expressed indifference about mobs tearing down statues of historical figures across the country. 
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) on Sunday refused to defend the legacies of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from protesters who want to tear down the statues of the Founding Fathers, saying instead that politicians should “listen to everybody.”
A Black Lives Matter march in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday turned anti-Semitic as protesters began accusing the Jewish state of murdering children. 
The New York Times published an article Wednesday explaining the progressive criticisms of Mount Rushmore, its sculptor, and the "complicated legacy" of the presidents represented on it. 
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones once penned a polemical letter to her college newspaper denouncing the white race as "barbaric." 
Protesters at the Wisconsin state capitol Tuesday night brutally beat up a gay progressive state senator who was taking a picture of them. 
Nebraska Democrat Chris Janicek's former campaign finance director Allison Bitterman said Monday that Janicek proposed swimming naked in his pool. 
New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) blamed the Trump administration on Tuesday for the high rate of nursing home deaths in his state during the coronavirus pandemic. 
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) withdrew herself from the field of candidates to be Joe Biden's running mate Thursday, urging the presumptive Democratic nominee to choose a nonwhite woman. 
A New Jersey health official says he was fired for refusing to give coronavirus tests to family members of Gov. Phil Murphy's (D.) top aide. 