Year: 2016

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...

The U.S. Virgin Islands just became the only territory or state in the country to give all of its delegates (pledged and super) to Hillary Clinton. She carried the islands by an 84.2%-12.2% margin, winning seven delegates in the...

I don’t know if John McCain will survive politically, but I know that he’s already lost in an important sense. He’s come to the conclusion that he cannot oppose Donald Trump, a man who mocked him for getting...

(In a comment on his post The Rhetoric of Trash Talk, Tarheel Dem asked “What is Trump doing wrong that Mohammed Ali got right?” i replied in some depth, and I am now posting it here as a stand-alone article.)...