“There are millions of Americans who don’t understand why anyone might worry about the effects of this election”
Most of Mr. Trump’s supporters did not intend to attack our most vulnerable citizens....
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“The economic tragedy of the Millennial generation was written before many of us had even learned to read…”
The economic tragedy of the Millennial generation was written before many of us had...
“Hillary Clinton is a strange fit for this moment. She’s a lifelong institutionalist at a time of bitter distrust in institutions…”
Hillary Clinton is a strange fit for this moment. She’s a lifelong institutionalist at...
“A generation ago, a Presidential contender like Trump wasn’t conceivable”
A generation ago, a Presidential contender like Trump wasn’t conceivable. Jimmy Carter brought smiling...
“In the eighties, the decade of conservative ascendancy, the Clintons’ brand of politics seemed to provide the ingredients of a Democratic revival”
Bill and Hillary moved to Arkansas in 1974, and got married the following year....
“The ‘authenticity’ that Trump’s followers so admire is factually wrong and morally repulsive”
If racial injustice is considered to be monolithic and unchanging—omitting the context of individual...
“To the left, ‘Clintonism’ implies accommodation and calculation. But to the right in 1992, it meant usurpation”
Few current observers seem to recall the wrath that greeted Bill Clinton’s ascension. To...
“…Americans today, especially on the Trump right and the Sanders left, won’t give politicians anything close to that kind of trust”
Clinton was saying in private what she can’t or won’t in public. The e-mails...
“American politics in 2016 has taken a big step toward politics in the rest of the world”
The Trump phenomenon, which has onlookers in Europe and elsewhere agog at the latest...
“A party that produces Ms. Palin as its vice-presidential nominee and Mr. Trump as its nominee is at war with reason”
As Margaret Thatcher once said, first you win the argument, then you win the...