Month: September 2016

What Would Trump’s Shake-Up Look Like?

In July 1971, President Nixon was anticipating some good press. The unemployment rate had dropped from 6.2% to 5.6%. But the press reports that emerged came with an infuriating caveat. When Nixon learned that the front page of...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates On Trump Deplorables

Ta-Nehisi Coates: How Breitbart Conquered the Media This is what Andrew Breitbart, and his progeny, ultimately understood. What Shirley Sherrod did or did not do really didn’t matter. White racial grievance enjoys...

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Dixie in North Jersey

As the modern Republican Party has grown more and more southern in its ideology, values, style, and temperament, I’ve often wondered why northern Democrats don’t make more of an issue of it in their campaigns. I...

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