News Media, Politics in America “This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 March 2017 The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has taken to slapping journalists who write...
Environment, Politics in America “Just as the world seemed poised to embark on a collective effort to wean itself off dependency on fossil fuels, its leading power elected as president a man who has claimed that global warming is a conspiracy invented by the Chinese and who went on to select as his secretary of state the chairman of Exxon Mobil” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2017 Arctic ice cover reached record lows this summer and fall, while in Antarctica, we...
Politics in America “Bipartisan agreement about the future of the planet falls apart not over the bomb but over the climate” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 March 2017 Trump has often contradicted himself on the subject of nuclear weapons, but one of...
Politics in America “Fortunately for Trump, most voters have no real idea how the government spends its money…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 March 2017 Trump won’t be sending a formal budget to Congress for a few weeks. But...
Politics in America “Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 March 2017 Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his...
Politics in America “All administrations lie, but what we are seeing here is an attack on credibility itself” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 February 2017 In a stunning demonstration of the power and resiliency of our new post-factual political...
Politics in America “Bill Clinton’s Presidency was so lacking in history-making events, yet so crowded with the embarrassing minutiae of scandalmongering, that it was easy to miss the great change that those years meant for the country and the Democratic Party” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 February 2017 Bill Clinton’s Presidency was so lacking in history-making events, yet so crowded with the...
Politics in America “The dangers presented by leaks are clearly not lost on the Trump administration, but neither are the opportunities” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 February 2017 Early coverage of the Trump administration has been defined by seemingly panoptical accounts from...
Politics in America “…though voters claim that they worry about corruption, a lot depends on context” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 February 2017 …Trump’s base, as the pollster Stanley Greenberg has written, believes that “politics has been...
News Media, Newspapers, Politics in America, Television “Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 February 2017 Relations between the president and the media are going to be bad. The role...