Year: 2016

If you’re familiar with the lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s song Youngstown, you might have had the same experience I had while reading Farai Chideya’s latest piece for FiveThirtyEight. The article looks at...

In layman’s language: Hillary Clinton suffered a stroke in 2012. Persons should avoid stress. [All links added for full understanding of HRC’s condition are mine. I too have the factor V Leiden mutation and...

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...

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...

Clinton campaign admits ‘we could have done better’ handling pneumonia news | The Guardian | Hillary Clinton’s campaign has acknowledged mishandling news of her pneumonia… “We could have done better...