Politics in America “Seldom in a modern presidential campaign has the selection of a running mate mattered as little as it does for [Clinton]” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 July 2016 Here’s what we journalists don’t like to tell you or even admit to ourselves...
Politics in America “…much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 July 2016 Empiricists believed they had deduced a method by which they could discover a universe...
Politics in America “… one of the most predictive variables for a place becoming more Republican has been the number of people ethnically identifying as ‘American’…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 July 2016 Something real has been percolating over the past decade in the Republican base when...
Politics in America “Mr. Trump…offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 July 2016 In the white working class, there are far too many wolves: heroin, broken families,...
Politics in America “Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America…became dysfunctional” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 July 2016 Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America and how to best...
Politics in America “…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…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 July 2016 …surprising thing is that you might expect loss-averse voters to be leery of taking...
Politics in America “…to his supporters,” Trump’s “unpredictability is a selling point rather than a flaw” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 July 2016 Trump may not quite be an American Perón, but, to his supporters, his unpredictability...
Politics in America “Some of the draw of Donald Trump for white working-class male voters, for example, is that he does not speak in a culture of critical discourse” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 June 2016 It is probably right that something like a culture of critical discourse can be...
Politics in America “The irrelevance of facts is part of what observers mean when they say that the normal rules of politics don’t apply to Trump” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 June 2016 The irrelevance of facts is part of what observers mean when they say that...
Politics in America “Trump is playing to one of the most powerful emotions in our economic life—what behavioral economists call loss aversion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 June 2016 Trump is playing to one of the most powerful emotions in our economic life—what...