Mississippi is burning again. A historic black church in Greenville was set ablaze last night. The arsonist spray-painted “Vote Trump” on an outside wall. Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign has cancelled scheduled events in Iowa after a Trump supporter ambushed and killed two Des Moines police officers. On October 14th, he was asked to leave a […]
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Three Women Have Shown Us How to Deal With a Bully Like Trump
He deserves to be called out.
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The Conversation We’re Not Having About Rape
The problem is much bigger than Trump—so why aren’t we talking about it?
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The Way It Is
Just as there are virtually no Trump supporters who plan to watch Before the Flood and Years of Living Dangerously on the National Geographic Channel tonight, there are virtually no Republicans who support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others who object to the highly controversial Dakota Access pipeline (which Trump reportedly has financial ties […]
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James Comey: Down the Hatch?
Has FBI director James Comey run afoul of federal law? Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, makes a plausible case: The F.B.I.’s job is to investigate, not to influence the outcome of an election. Such acts could also be prohibited under the Hatch Act, which bars the […]
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Circle of Lies: The Campaign That Created Trump
November 8 is a day that will live in irony. Regardless of who wins nine days from now, the outcome will be influenced not only by the atrocious actions of FBI Director James Comey, but also by a presidential election that occurred twenty-eight years to the day earlier. The bitter legacy of that particular election […]
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It Keeps You Runnin’
Here’s another nightmare scenario to ponder, even if it might seem a bit remote: what if Donald Trump loses the 2016 Presidential election by a margin so close that he could actually come back four years from now? There’s a reason why the New York Daily News ran that editorial last week expressing hope that […]
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Takin’ It to the Streets?
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell has been downplaying the prospect of Donald Trump supporters having a profoundly irrational reaction to the Republican Presidential candidate’s likely defeat on November 8. I don’t necessarily gainsay O’Donnell’s overall point–that most Trump supporters will return to their lives, disappointed in the election outcome but determined to take their kids to sports […]
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Findings of Fact
Regardless of whether Donald Trump wins or loses the 2016 Presidential election, the following will be true: * Those who support Trump have proven to be the most gullible citizens of the United States, the sort of folks who can fall for the simplest of scams. To invoke a famous Washington Post controversy, they may […]
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The Second Strangest Thing About This Election
Why does Trump find it so offensive to criticize Vladimir Putin?
