Internet, Politics in America “There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of the seventh party system” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 March 2016 There will not be a revolution, but this election might mark the beginning of...
Journalism, Politics in America “The American party system is not only a creation of the press; it is dependent on it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 March 2016 The American party system is not only a creation of the press; it is...
Politics in America “The people who turn up at Sanders and Trump rallies are wed, across the aisle, in bonds of populist unrest” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 March 2016 The people who turn up at Sanders and Trump rallies are wed, across the...
Journalism, Politics in America “The American two-party system is a creation of the press” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2016 The American two-party system is a creation of the press. “The idea of a...
America, Politics in America “…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2015 After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
Politics in America “…journalists bear special blame for [Trump], because bit by bit, year by year, we turned up the heat, intensifying our demand for conflict, for crackups…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 October 2015 We journalists bear special blame for him, because bit by bit, year by year,...
Entertainment, Politics in America “The bleed of entertainment into politics is hardly new. It’s been rued and prophesied for many decades…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 October 2015 We now utterly conflate entertainment and politics, routinely confuse celebrity with authority and regularly...
Politics in America “The image of black helicopters gained currency among antigovernment and militia enthusiasts in the mid-1990s” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 September 2015 A common weapon for bludgeoning a ‘‘crazy’’ is to insinuate paranoia by consigning them...
Politics in America “Crying ‘gotcha’ has now become like crying wolf. The term has been cheapened by overuse” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 August 2015 Crying “gotcha” has now become like crying wolf. The term has been cheapened by...
Politics in America “Substituting compulsory morality with compulsory liberalism simply shifts the burden of coercive state power from one group to another” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 July 2015 Obergefell would be a tragic irony if it succeeded in finally closing the door...