“Clinton has…assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames people for their garbage posts…. Trump plays the troll”
Clinton has, herself, assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames...
Category Archives: America
“Seldom in a modern presidential campaign has the selection of a running mate mattered as little as it does for [Clinton]”
Here’s what we journalists don’t like to tell you or even admit to ourselves...
“Though many working-class whites have lost any ties to church, they haven’t necessarily abandoned their faith”
…church attendance has fallen substantially among the members of the white working class in...
“…much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence”
Empiricists believed they had deduced a method by which they could discover a universe...
“… one of the most predictive variables for a place becoming more Republican has been the number of people ethnically identifying as ‘American’…”
Something real has been percolating over the past decade in the Republican base when...
“Mr. Trump…offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains”
In the white working class, there are far too many wolves: heroin, broken families,...
“Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America…became dysfunctional”
Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America and how to best...
“The survivor — or pop culture’s fantasy of her — now cuts a distinctive silhouette: She’s damaged, but never so much as to be a figure of pity or revulsion; her wound makes her interesting, even alluring”
The survivor — or pop culture’s fantasy of her — now cuts a distinctive...
“…surprising thing is that you might expect loss-averse voters to be leery of taking a risk on an unpredictable outsider like Trump, since loss aversion often makes people cautious…”
…surprising thing is that you might expect loss-averse voters to be leery of taking...
“…to his supporters,” Trump’s “unpredictability is a selling point rather than a flaw”
Trump may not quite be an American Perón, but, to his supporters, his unpredictability...