Month: June 2016

This will be short and sweet. Hillary Clinton has made history. The first female presidential nominee of a major party. The primaries are over, (except for DC), the votes tallied, the delegates delegated, the verdict is in. Time...

Over at Politico, reporters Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim have assembled a sizable list of comments from Republican senators who are “concerned about the tone” of Donald Trump’s campaign. In particular,...

Huh. So, the networks have called the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton tonight, only a few hours before voters go to the polls in New Jersey, California, and several other states. This doesn’t matter to me because...

It’s pretty bad when Newt Gingrich thinks your political pitch is too tinged with racism. With Gingrich, you can be assured that this is a political objection rather than a moral or principled one. But that’s why...

There are some elements of a modern campaign that ought to be questioned. I’m thinking in particular of the efficacy of television advertisements and the way political operatives make a killing on commissions for buying...