“…a basket is just the kind of zany, cheerful container that makes light of the deplorables while still putting them in their place”
In the United States, Hillary Clinton calls half the supporters of Donald Trump “a...
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“The Trumpian rebellion against liberal democracy is not a local event; it is part of a disturbing global trend”
The Trump Presidency represents a rebellion against liberalism itself—an angry assault on the advances...
“Many in our community contend that President Trump’s strong support of Israel counterbalances his defects and justifies our support of him. I do not agree because l am fearful and I very much hope that I turn out to be wrong that his antics will end up being detrimental to both this country and to Israel”
In democracies, elections come and go rather frequently and the day after, the rain...
“To outsiders, #GamerGate looked like a cesspool of angry, entitled young men nobody else wanted to talk to. But some right-wing figures spied an opportunity”
To outsiders, #GamerGate looked like a cesspool of angry, entitled young men nobody else...
“The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow man…”
The problem in Washington is not a Deep State; the problem is a shallow...
“If we want to restore respect for facts and break through the intellectual ghettos on both the right and left, the mainstream media will have to be aggressive without being hysterical and adversarial without being unduly oppositional”
Mr. Trump and company seem to be betting that much of the electorate will...
“If close to half of America voted for Republicans in the Obama years and support Trump today, then clearly something besides the pieties of cosmopolitan liberalism is very much a part of who we are”
“That’s not who we are.” So said President Obama, again and again throughout his...
“This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps…”
The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, has taken to slapping journalists who write...
“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”
Arctic ice cover reached record lows this summer and fall, while in Antarctica, we...
“Bipartisan agreement about the future of the planet falls apart not over the bomb but over the climate”
Trump has often contradicted himself on the subject of nuclear weapons, but one of...